Economics Working Papers

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468: Pay-as-you-go social security and the distribution of bequests

Jordi Caballé and Luisa Fuster

467: An experimental test of loss aversion and scale compatibility

Han Bleichrodt and José Luis Pinto

466: On the concept of optimality interval

Pelegrí Viader, Jaume Paradís and Lluís Bibiloni

465: Voto dual y abstención diferencial. Un estudio sobre el comportamiento electoral en Cataluña

Clara Riba

464: Corruption and competition in procurement

Marco Celentani and Juan-José Ganuza

463: Forest fires: Evaluation of government intervention measures

Xavier Ballart and Clara Riba

462: The 'new political economy': Two recent books

Gilles Saint-Paul

461: Full insurance, asymmetric information and genetic testing

José Penalva

460: Insurance with frequent trading: A dynamic analysis of efficient insurance markets

José Penalva

459: On the sources of business cycles in the G-7

Fabio Canova and Gianni de Nicoló

458: Country effects in ISSP-1993 environmental data: Comparison of SEM approaches

Pilar Rivera and Albert Satorra

457: Electoral competition under the threat of political unrest

Matthew Ellman and Leonard Wantchekon

456: On certain greedoid polyhedra, partially indexable scheduling problems and extended restless bandit allocation indices

José Niño-Mora

455: The ethics of creative accounting: Some Spanish evidence

Oriol Amat, John Blake and Ester Oliveras

454: Optimal magnitude and probability of fines

Nuno Garoupa

453: Location models for airline hubs behaving as M/D/c queues

Vladimir Marianov and Daniel Serra

452: Audit quality: Attributes, private safeguards and the role of regulation

Benito Arruñada

451: Technical inefficiency and public capital in US States: A stochastic frontier approach

Jaume Puig

450: Flexibility vs. rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both worlds?

Gilles Saint-Paul

449: Will EMU increase eurosclerosis?

Gilles Saint-Paul and Samuel Bentolila

448: Resolució de problemes i mètode de raonament en l'educació matemà tica

Joan Miralles and Jaume Paradís

447: Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Adriana Kugler and Gilles Saint-Paul

446: Monetary policy shocks and transmission in Italy: A VAR analysis

Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Giorgio Di Giorgio

445: The quasi-judicial role of large retailers: An efficiency hypothesis of their relation with suppliers

Benito Arruñada

444: External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition

Bruno Cassiman and Reinhilde Veugelers

443: Forecasting and turning point predictions in a Bayesian panel VAR model

Fabio Canova and Matteo Ciccarelli

442: The macroeconomic effects of German unification: Real adjustments and the welfare state

Fabio Canova and Morten Ravn

441: Social preferences: Some simple tests and a new model

Gary Charness and Matthew Rabin

440: Systemic risk, interbank relations and liquidity provision by the Central Bank

Xavier Freixas, Bruno Parigi and Jean Rochet

439: Radial measures of public services deficit for regional allocation of public funds

Jaume Puig

438: One, two, (three), infinity: Newspaper and lab beauty-contest experiments

Rosemarie Nagel, Antoni Bosch-Domènech, Albert Satorra and José García Montalvo

437: Retribution in a cheap-talk experiment

Jordi Brandts and Gary Charness

436: Relative payoffs and happiness: An experimental study

Gary Charness and Brit Grosskopf

435: Restless bandits, partial conservation laws and indexability

José Niño-Mora

434: Importance of international linkages for local know-how flows. Some econometric evidence from Belgium

Reinhilde Veugelers and Bruno Cassiman

433: Toward a theory of labor market institutions

Gilles Saint-Paul

432: Environmental factors giving rise to variations in national management accounting practice

Oriol Amat, John Blake and Philip Wraith

431: On the relevance of modeling volatility for pricing purposes

Manuel Moreno

430: A note on the dual scaling of dominance data and its relationship to correspondence analysis

Michael Greenacre and Anna Torres

429: Assessing an intuitive condition for stability under a range of traffic conditions via a generalised Lu-Kumar network

Kevin D. Glazebrook and José Niño-Mora

428: Causes of subcontracting: Evidence from panel data on construction firms

Manuel González, Benito Arruñada and Alberto Fernández

427: Parallel scheduling of multiclass M/M/m queues: Approximate and heavy-traffic optimization of achievable performance

Kevin D. Glazebrook and José Niño-Mora

426: Unemployment duration and workers' wage aspirations in Spain

Namkee Ahn and J. Ignacio García Pérez

425: Hierarchical location-allocation models for congested systems

Vladimir Marianov and Daniel Serra

424: Contractual allocation of decision rights and incentives: The case of automobile distribution

Benito Arruñada, Luis Garicano and Luis Vázquez

423: The provision on non-audit services by auditors: Let the market evolve and decide

Benito Arruñada

422: A generalization of histogram type estimators

Pedro Delicado and Manuel del Río

421: Modelos estadísticos y evaluación: tres estudios en educación

Anna Cuxart

420: Monetary policy misspecification in VAR models

Fabio Canova and Joaquim Pina

419: Implementing interactive computing in an object-oriented environment

Frederic Udina