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201302: Beyond Value-at-Risk: GlueVaR Distortion Risk Measures

Jaume Belles-Sampera, Montserrat Guillen and Miguel Santolino

201301: How systemic is Spain for Europe?

Peter Claeys and Bořek Vašíček

201224: Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean: An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008

Claudia Tello, Raul Ramos and Manuel Artís

201223: Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata

Raul Ramos, Juan Duque and Sandra Nieto

201222: Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in Public-Private-Partnerships: Contractual Choice in the U.S. Water industry

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and R. Richard Geddes

201221: Beyond pure public and pure private management models: Mixed firms in the European Airport Industry

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

201220: The determinants of contractual choice for private involvement in infrastructure projects in the United States

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and R. Richard Geddes

201219: Measuring Sovereign Bond Spillover in Europe and the Impact of Rating News

Peter Claeys and Bořek Vašíček

201218: Entry Regulation Asymmetries and Gasoline Competition in a Mixed Motorway Network

Daniel Albalate and Jordi Perdiguero

201217: Regulation of Port Charges in Spain: Global versus Local Competition

Xavier Fageda and Marta Gonzalez-Aregall

201216: Pass-through in dollarized countries: should Ecuador abandon the U.S. Dollar?

María Lorena Marí del Cristo and Marta Gómez-Puig

201215: A Note on the Relationship Between the Cyclicality of Markups and Fiscal Policy

Peter Claeys and Luis Costa

201214: Do intra- and inter-industry spillovers matter? CDM model estimates for Spain

Esther Goya, Esther Vayá and Jordi Suriñach

201213: What Drives the Choice of Partners in R&D Cooperation? Heterogeneity across Sectors

Erika Badillo Enciso and Rosina Moreno

201212: Corruption and local politics: does it pay to be a crook?

Juan Jiménez González and Carmen García

201211: Not always sunny in paradise: prices and brand diversity in touristic areas supermarkets

Javier Campos, Juan Jiménez González and Ancor Suárez-Alemán

201210: The Institutional, Economic and Social Determinants of Local Government Transparency

Daniel Albalate

201209: THE BUSINESS EXCELLENCE ATTRACTION COMPOSITE INDEX (BEACI). DESIGN AND APPLICATION TO THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE BARCELONA PROVINCE

Joaquim Murillo, Javier Romaní and Jordi Suriñach

201208: Policy options for the promotion of electric vehicles: a review

Jordi Perdiguero and Juan Jiménez González

201207: Price differences between domestic and international air markets: an empirical application to routes from Gran Canaria

Xavier Fageda, Juan Jiménez González and Carlos Díaz Santamaría

201206: Building a “quality in work” index in Spain

Jordi López-Tamayo, Vicente Royuela and Jordi Suriñach

201205: Mergers and difference-in-difference estimator: why firms do not increase prices?

Juan Jiménez González and Jordi Perdiguero

201204: What attracts knowledge workers? The role of space, social connections, institutions, jobs and amenities

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

201203: What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

201202: Location Patterns of Creative Capital and Regional Disparities in Spain

Ebru Kerimoglu and Burhan Karahasan

201201: The connection between distortion risk measures and ordered weighted averaging operators

Jaume Belles-Sampera, José M. Merigó, Montserrat Guillen and Miguel Santolino

201126: Productivity and innovation spillovers: Micro evidence from Spain

Esther Goya, Esther Vayá and Jordi Suriñach

201125: The regional distribution of unemployment. What do micro-data tell us?

Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201124: Vertical relations and local competition: an empirical approach

Jordi Perdiguero

201123: Air services on thin routes: Regional versus low-cost airlines

Xavier Fageda and Ricardo Flores-Fillol

201122: Measuring early childhood health: a composite index comparing Colombian departments

Ana Osorio Mejia, Catalina Bolancé and Manuela Alcañiz

201121: A relational approach to the geography of innovation: a typology of regions

Rosina Moreno and Ernest Miguelez

201120: Does Rigidity of Prices Hide Collusion?

Juan Jiménez González and Jordi Perdiguero

201119: Factors affecting hospital admission and recovery stay duration of in-patient motor victims in Spain

Miguel Santolino, Catalina Bolancé and Manuela Alcañiz

201118: Why do municipalities cooperate to provide local public services? An empirical analysis

Germà Bel, Xavier Fageda and Melania Mur

201117: The "farthest" need the best. Human capital composition and development-specific economic growth

Fabio Manca

201116: Causality and contagion in peripheral EMU public debt markets: a dynamic approach

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

201115: The influence of decision-maker effort and case complexity on appealed rulings subject to multi-categorical selection

Miguel Santolino and Magnus Söderberg

201114: Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth

David Castells and Vicente Royuela

201113: A correlation sensitivity analysis of non-life underwriting risk in solvency capital requirement estimation

Lluís Bermúdez, Antoni Ferri and Montserrat Guillen

201112: Assessing agglomeration economies in a spatial framework with endogenous regressors

Michael Artis, Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

201111: Privatization, cooperation and costs of solid waste services in small towns

Germà Bel, Xavier Fageda and Melania Mur

201110: Privatization and PPPS in transportation infrastructure: Network effects of increasing user fees

Daniel Albalate and Germà Bel

201109: Debating as a classroom tool for adapting learning outcomes to the European higher education area

Juan Jiménez González, Jordi Perdiguero and Ancor Suárez-Alemán

201108: Influence of the claimant’s behavioural features on motor compensation outcomes

Mercedes Ayuso, Lluís Bermúdez and Miguel Santolino

201107: Geography of talent and regional differences in Spain

Ebru Kerimoglu and Burhan Karahasan

201106: How Important to a City Are Tourists and Daytrippers? The Economic Impact of Tourism on The City of Barcelona

Joaquim Murillo, Esther Vayá, Javier Romaní and Jordi Suriñach

201105: Singling out individual inventors from patent data

Ernest Miguelez and Ismael Gómez-Miguélez

201104: ¿La sobreeducación de los padres afecta al rendimiento académico de sus hijos?

Sandra Nieto and Raul Ramos

201103: The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli