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201401: Tracking positive and negative effects of inequality on long-run growth

David Castells-Quintana and Vicente Royuela

201325: European Government Bond Markets and Monetary Policy Surprises: Returns, Volatility and Integration

Pilar Abad and Helena Chuliá

201324: One more lie: the ‘Monday effect’ in Spain’s retail petrol market

Juan Jiménez González and Jordi Perdiguero

201323: The use of flexible quantile-based measures in risk assessment

Jaume Belles-Sampera, Montserrat Guillen and Miguel Santolino

201322: The Economic Costs of Separatist Terrorism in Turkey

Firat Bilgel and Burhan Karahasan

201321: Tourism demand forecasting with different neural networks models

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

201320: Forecasting Business surveys indicators: neural networks vs. time series models

Oscar Claveria and Salvador Torra

201319: Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

201318: Skill mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. natives

Sandra Nieto, Alessia Matano and Raul Ramos

201317: A gravity model of migration between ENC and EU

Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

201316: Mobility, networks and innovation: The role of regions’ absorptive capacity

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

201315: The relationship between debt level and fiscal sustainability in OECD countries

Mariam Camarero, Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre and Cecilio Tamarit

201314: Do labour mobility and technological collaborations foster geographical knowledge diffusion? The case of European regions

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

201313: Prevalence of alcohol-impaired drivers based on random breath tests in a roadside survey

Manuela Alcañiz, Montserrat Guillen, Daniel Sánchez-Moscona, Miguel Santolino, Oscar Llatje and Lluís Ramon

201312: When supply travels far beyond demand: Institutional and regulatory causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

201311: Indicators for the characterization of discrete Choquet integrals

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

201310: La liberalización de las telecomunicaciones en España: control de la inflación y universalización del servicio

Joan Calzada and Anton Costas

201309: Broadband prices in the European Union: competition and commercial strategies

Joan Calzada and Fernando Martínez-Santos

201308: Firm exports, innovation, … and regions

Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201307: Double Penalty in Returns to Education: Informality and Educational Mismatch in the Colombian Labour market

Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201306: Fiscal sustainability and fiscal shocks in a dollarized and oil-exporting country: Ecuador

María Lorena Marí del Cristo and Marta Gómez-Puig

201305: Informality and Overeducation in the Labor Market of a Developing Country

Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Enrique Lopez-Bazo and Elisabet Motellón

201304: GLS based unit root tests for bounded processes

Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre and María Gadea

201303: Determinants of Broadband Access: Is Platform Competition always the Key Variable to Success?

Xavier Fageda, Rafael Rubio and Montserrat Termes-Rifé

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