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      Demand for Cultural Heritage 

      Ateca Amestoy, Victoria María ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
      The concept of cultural heritage has experienced a process of extension during the past few decades. Because it is a cultural construction, it is subject to differences in appreciation based on contextual and institutional ...
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      Democratic Values Transmission 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Giritligil, Ayca E. (2013-01)
      This study addresses the issue of intergenerational transmission of democratic values embedded in social choice rules. We focus on a few rules which have been the focus of social choice theory: plurality, plurality with a ...
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      Desarrollo de herramientas para evaluar los efectos de los espacios naturales y seminaturales sobre la salud en el contexto de adaptación al cambio climático 

      Martínez Juárez, Pablo (2019-02-26)
      La promoción de entornos naturales y seminaturales implica una serie de costes económicos, incluyendo tanto costes financieros como de oportunidad. Por ello es necesario el desarrollo de herramientas y metodologías que ...
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      Determinants for cultural and sports attendance and practice in the U.S.A. 

      González Fernández, Christian (2020)
      Cultural and sport events are two of the most common leisure activities nowadays. However, leisure time is limited and there may not be sufficient time to enjoy all activities desired. This research studies the effect of ...
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      Discounting future pain: Effects on self-reported pain 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Repollés Pro, María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-07)
      Empirical results are presented showing that people who acknowledge pain anticipation when expecting an injury experience higher sensitivity to pain (GREP, Robinson et al., 2001). The positive correlation between sensitivity ...
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      Do Credit Ratings Take into Account the Sustainability Performance of Companies? 

      Cubas Díaz, Maite ORCID; Martínez Sedano, Miguel Ángel ORCID (MDPI, 2018-11-19)
      In the last few decades, sustainability performance measuring has become a widely-studied issue, and various measurement proposals have been put forward. However, it is also important to know whether those measures are ...
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      Do experimental subjects favor their friends? 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Durán, Miguel A.; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-06)
      Ideally we would like subjects of experiments to be perfect strangers so that the situation they face at the lab is not just part of a long run interaction. Unfortunately, it is not easy to reach those conditions and ...
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      Does Immigration Raise Natives’ Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain 

      Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-04)
      How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past ...
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      Does the Term Spread play a role in the FED's reaction function? An Empirical Investigation 

      Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)
      Using US data for the period 1967:5-2002:4, this paper empirically investigates the performance of a Fed’s reaction function (FRF) that (i) allows for the presence of switching regimes, (ii) considers the long-short term ...
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      Dynamic Inefficiency in an Overlapping Generation Economy with Pollution and Health Costs 

      Gutiérrez Huerta, María José (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-01)
      We analyze an overlapping generations model in which pollution arises, in an accumulatively way, from production. Householders do not care directly about the environment, but pollution leads them to incur health costs when ...
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      Earnings-based vs assets-based borrowing constraints and their impact on output 

      Ostolozaga Falcón, Ibai (2020)
      We present an overlapping generations model in order to assess the quantitative effects of financial frictions on output depending on the type of loan contract. Financial frictions are one of the major obstacles of the ...
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      Economic Effects of Global Warming under Stock Growth Uncertainty: The European Sardine Fishery 

      Da Rocha, José María; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Villasante, Sebastián (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013)
      Global warming of the oceans is expected to alter the environmental conditions that determine the growth of a fishery resource. Most climate change studies are based on models and scenarios that focus on economic growth, ...
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      Economic Growth and Electricity Consumption in 12 European Countries: A Causality Analysis Using Panel Data 

      Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor ORCID; Zárraga Alonso, Ainhoa ORCID (2008)
      We apply recent panel methodology to investigate the relationship between electricity consumption and real GDP for a set of 12 European Union countries using annual data for the period 1970-2004. Recently developed tests ...
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      Education and the dynamics of family decisions 

      Echávarri Aguinaga, Rebeca (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-04)
      This paper investigates the extent to which a biased transmission of educational endowments affects fertility. To this end, we devise a version of Becker’s family decision model that takes preference change into account. ...
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      Electricity consumption and economic growth: evidence from Spain 

      Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor ORCID; Zárraga Alonso, Ainhoa ORCID (2007-01)
      The paper investigates both linear and nonlinear causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain for the period 1971-2005. We use the methodology of Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lütkepohl ...
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      Employment comovements at the sectoral level over the business cycle 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-12)
      This paper extends the technique suggested by den Haan (2000) to investigate contemporaneous as well as lead and lag correlations among economic data for a range of forecast horizons. The technique provides a richer picture ...
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      Endogenous fisheries management in a stochastic model: Why do fishery agencies use TAC 

      Da Rocha, José María; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)
      The aim of this paper is to explain under which circumstances using TACs as instrument to manage a fishery along with fishing periods may be interesting from a regulatory point of view. In order to do this, the deterministic ...
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      Endogenous Fishing Mortalities: a State-Space Bioeconomic Model 

      Da Rocha, José María; García-Cutrín, Javier; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Jardim, Ernesto (Oxford University Press, 2017-05-13)
      A methodology that endogenously determines catchability functions that link fi shing mortality with contemporaneous stock abundance is presented. We consider a stochastic age-structured model for a fishery composed by ...
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      Endogenous Formation of Competing Partnership with Moral Hazard 

      Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Macho Stadler, Inés (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-09)
      We analyze the formation of partnerships as a sequential choice-of-sizes game with moral hazard within coalitions; once formed, partnerships compete a la Cournot in the marketplace. We show that when moral hazard within ...
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      Endogenous Unions Formation 

      Chica Páez, Yolanda; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-12)
      This paper analyzes the process of endogenous union formation in the context of a sequential bargaining model between a firm and several unions and tries to explain why workers may be represented by several unions of ...