Economics Working Papers

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288: Adaptive approach heuristics for the generalized assignment problem

Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço and Daniel Serra

287: How wide is the gap? An investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression

Jaume Garcia Villar, Pedro Hernandez and Ángel López Nicolás

286: A dilution cost approach to financial intermediation and securities markets

Patrick Bolton and Xavier Freixas

285: Diffusion with delayed informational spillovers

Gabriel Duque

284: Bargaining efficiency and screening: An experimental investigation

Gary Charness

283: Attribution and reciprocity in a simulated labor market: An experimental investigation

Gary Charness

282: A simple randomized algorithm for consistent sequential prediction of ergodic time series

László Györfi, Gabor Lugosi and Gusztáv Morvai

281: Inequalities for a new data-based method for selecting nonparametric density estimates

Luc Devroye, Gabor Lugosi and Frederic Udina

280: An inequality for uniform deviations of sample averages from their means

Peter Bartlett and Gabor Lugosi

279: Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms

Bruno Cassiman and Reinhilde Veugelers

278: Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997

Guillem López Casasnovas

277: Accounting information and the prediction of farm viability

Josep M. Argilés

276: On the throughput-WIP trade-off in queueing systems, diminishing returns and the threshold property: A linear programming approach

José Niño-Mora

275: Comparison and evaluation of states of health

Carmen Herrero, José Luis Pinto and Han Bleichrodt

274: Firm investment in imperfect capital markets: A structural estimation

Sangeeta Pratap and Silvio Rendon

273: Negativity effect in multiparty electoral competition

Enriqueta Aragones

272: Lobbying, innovation and protectionist cycles

Gabriel Sanchez

271: The choice of the form of representation in multinational banking: Evidence from Spain

Josep Garcia Blandón

270: On the efficiency and sensitivity of a pyramidal classification algorithm

Àngel J. Gil, Carles Capdevila and Antoni Arcas

269: Imitation of succesful behavior in Cournot markets

Antoni Bosch-Domènech and Nicolaas Vriend

268: Free entry does not imply zero profits

Sjaak Hurkens and Nir Vulkan

267: Completing contracts ex post: How car manufacturers manage car dealers

Benito Arruñada, Luis Garicano and Luis Vázquez

266: A total order in [0,1] defined through a 'next' operator

Jaume Paradís, Pelegrí Viader and Lluís Bibiloni

265: Finance versus costs for teaching hospitals in Spain

Guillem López Casasnovas and Marc Sáez

264: Influence activity and the organization of research and development

Bruno Cassiman

263: Research joint ventures and optimal R&D policy with asymmetric information

Bruno Cassiman

262: On the quantitative importance of wage bargaining models

James Costain

261: How competition controls team production: The case of fishing firms

Benito Arruñada and Manuel González

260: Job dynamics, correlated shocks and wage profiles

Antonio Cabrales and Hugo Hopenhayn

259: Country asymmetries, endogenous product choice and the speed of trade liberalization

Antonio Cabrales and Massimo Motta

258: Foreign direct investments and spillovers through workers' mobility

Andrea Fosfuri, Massimo Motta and Thomas Ronde

257: Monitoring the university admissions process in Spain

Anna Cuxart and Nicholas T. Longford

256: Employment protection, international specialization and innovation

Gilles Saint-Paul

255: Algunos factores que inciden en el rendimiento y en la evaluación de los alumnos en las PAAU

Anna Cuxart, Manuel Martí and Ferran Ferrer

254: Risk management under a two-factor model of the term structure of interest rates

Manuel Moreno

253: Expertise and finance: Mergers motivated by technological change

Masako Ueda

252: Employee referrals and the inter-industry wage structure

Adriana Kugler

251: The drive for quality - the impact on accounting in the wine industry

Soledad Moya, Oriol Amat and John Blake

250: Seeking theta's desperately: Estimating the distribution of consumers under increasing block rates

Pedro Delicado, Fidel Castro-Rodriguez and Jose Da Rocha

249: Effects of uncertain lifetime and annuity insurance on capital accumulation and growth

Luisa Fuster

248: Crossing the Rio Grande: Migrations, business cycles and the welfare state

Morten Ravn and Fabio Canova

247: Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in the US: Positive vs. negative or big vs. small?

Morten Ravn and Martin Sola

246: The economics of organized crime and optimal law enforcement

Nuno Garoupa

245: The role of moral values in the economic analysis of crime: A general equilibrium approach

Nuno Garoupa

244: Recurrent hyperinflations and learning

Albert Marcet and Juan Pablo Nicolini

243: Unemployment insurance with endogenous search intensity and precautionary saving

James Costain

242: Life-time redistribution effects of the Spanish public pension system

Guillem López Casasnovas and Joan Gil

241: Finite horizon bargaining and the consistent field

Armando Gomes, Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell

240: Unobserved heterogeneity and censoring in the demand for health care

Ángel López Nicolás

239: A mathematical excursion: From the three-door problem to a Cantor-type perfect set

Jaume Paradís, Pelegrí Viader and Lluís Bibiloni