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      Ensayos sobre valoración de stock options 

      Madoz Mendioroz, Agueda (2019-03-26)
      La valoración tradicional de opciones no es aplicable a la valoración de Executive Stock Options, ya que la condición de un agente bien diversificado no se cumple (Hall y Murphy (2002)). En esta tesis abordamos la valoración ...
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      Entry into motherhood: The effect of wages 

      Ariza, Alfredo; Ugidos Olazabal, Arantza ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-04)
      Using the ECHP, we explored the determinants of having the first child in Spain. Our main goal was to study the relation between female wages and the decision to enter motherhood. Since the offered wage of non-working women ...
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      Essays on the effect of renewable energy production in the spanish electricity market. 

      Pizarro Irizar, María Cristina ORCID (2016-02-26)
      El camino hacia una economía baja en carbono es una de las prioridades políticas actuales de la Unión Europea. En España, la Energía Renovable (ER) emergió a partir de la introducción del sistema de Feed-in Tariffs. La ...
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      Explosive Hyperinflation, Inflation Tax Laffer Curve and Modelling the use of Money 

      Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-07)
      This paper analyzes the existence of an inflation tax Laffer curve (ITLC) in the context of two standard optimizing monetary models: a cash-in-advance model and a money in the utility function model. Agents’ preferences ...
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      Finance for a sustainable world. Three essays on sustainable finance. 

      Cubas Díaz, Maite ORCID (2019-10-29)
      This thesis is made up of three essays on sustainable finance, which aim to make a little contribution tothe environmental and social well-being of our world and the society as a whole. The order of thechapters follows the ...
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      Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Does PIGS stand for Procyclicality In Government Spending? 

      Claeys, Peter; Maravalle, Alessandro (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)
      The Financial Crisis has hit particularly hard countries like Ireland or Spain. Procyclical fiscal policy has contributed to a boom-bust cycle that undermined fiscal positions and deepened current account deficits during ...
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      Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of government debt in the Euro Area 

      Bahadir Karaca, Bayram (2020)
      This paper empirically analyzes fiscal policy sustainability and the cyclicality in 19 Euro Area countries using data on government debt, primary deficit and the output gap. We investigate this over quarterly intervals, ...
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      Forecasting accuracy of behavioural models for participation in the arts 

      Ateca Amestoy, Victoria María ORCID; Prieto Rodríguez, Juan (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012-01)
      In this paper, we assess the forecasting performance of count data models applied to arts attendance. We estimate participation models for two artistic activities that differ in their degree of popularity -museum and jazz ...
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      Forecasting in electricity markets 

      Muniain Izaguirre, Peru (2020-02-07)
      Argindar merkatuetako parte-hartzaileek beren merkatu-estrategiak modu eraginkorrean egokitu behar dituzte ahalik eta etekin handienak eskuratzeko. Hautatuko estrategien mozkinak handitzeko, parte-hartzaileek prezio seinale ...
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      Fractional Integration Analysis and its Implications on Profitability: the Case of the Mackerel Market in the Basque Country 

      García Enríquez, Javier ORCID; Arteche González, Jesús María ORCID; Murillas Maza, Arantza (2010)
      This paper analyses weekly prices for mackerel landed by the inshore fleet at the ports of the Basque Country in 1995-2008, using new econometric techniques never before applied to the fishing market. The idea is to learn ...
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      Full Implementation of Rank Dependent Prizes 

      Midjord, Rune (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      A manager/mechanism designer must allocate a set of money prizes ($1, $2, .., $n) between n agents working in a team. The agents know the state i.e. who contributed most, second most, etc. The agents' prefer- ences over ...
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      Going Multinational under Exchange Rate Uncertainty 

      Aray, Henry; Gardeazabal, Javier ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-02)
      A domestic exporting firm faces exchange rate uncertainty and has the option to install capacity abroad, thus becoming multinational. We analyze when the firm should exercise such an option optimally in the context of a ...
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      Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sectors: an input-output approach 

      Montilla Colás, Julen (2020)
      After the Paris agreement, the transition to a low carbon economy is at the heart of the debate of the European energy and climate policy. One of the central targets of this transformation proposes changes in the energy ...
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      Group size and decision rules in legislative bargaining 

      Miller Moya, Luis Miguel ORCID; Vanberg, Christoph (2014-03-17)
      We conduct experiments to investigate the effects of different majority requirements on bargaining outcomes in small and large groups. In particular, we use a Baron-Ferejohn protocol and investigate the effects of decision ...
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      Growth in an oil abundant economy: The case of Venezuela 

      Agnani, Betty; Iza Padilla, María Amaya ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-09)
      Venezuela's growth experience over the past fifty years is characterized by a high economic growth rate from 1950 to 1970 and a low economic growth rate in the last thirty years. Although Venezuela is an oil abundant ...
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      Growth in Overlapping Generation Economies with Non-Renewable Resources 

      Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
      Feasibility of positive steady-state growth in overlapping generation (OLG) economies that use non-renewable resources as essential inputs in the production process is analyzed. The model we use is, in essence, that of ...
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      Health in cities: neighborhood effects and scioeconomic determinants in the Spanish case 

      Fainberg, Alexandra (2020)
      The impact of place on individual outcomes, like health, presents many causal challenges that have disputed treatments in the literature. A 2011 study by Bilger Carrieri addresses them via instrumentation, to surprising ...
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      How Does the New Keynesian Monetary Model Fit in the U.S. and the Eurozone? an Indirect Inference Approach 

      María-Dolores, Ramón; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-05)
      This paper estimates a standard version of the New Keynesian monetary (NKM) model under alternative specifications of the monetary policy rule using U.S. and Eurozone data. The estimation procedure implemented is a classical ...
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      How much efficiency gains and price reductions for an efficiency defense? 'Quanto Basta' 

      Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)
      Potential efficiency gains due to a merger can be used by competition authorities to judge upon proposed mergers. In a world where agents’ efforts, observable or unobservable, affect the success of a production cost reducing ...
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      Immigrants Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions 

      Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-05)
      Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years ...