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Business cycles in a small open economy: The case of Hong Kong
; Iza Padilla, María Amaya
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)
This paper analyzes the business cycle properties of the Hong Kong economy during the 1982-2004 period, which includes the financial crisis experienced in 1997-98. We show that output, output growth rate and real interest ... -
Career Planning in Spain: Do temporary contracts delay marriage and motherhood?
De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-04)
The aim of this paper is to find an empirical connection between the impressive increase in the use of temporary contracts in Spain and the observed increase in age at marriage and maternity. Using a pool of the six available ... -
Growth in an oil abundant economy: The case of Venezuela
Agnani, Betty; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (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 ... -
Growth in Overlapping Generation Economies with Non-Renewable Resources
Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (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 ... -
Income Taxation and Growth in an OLG Economy: Does Aggregate Uncertainty Play any Role?
Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (2013-12-18)
We analyze the effects of capital income taxation on long-run growth in a stochastic, two-period overlapping generations economy. Endogenous growth is driven by a positive externality of physical capital in the production ... -
Life Expectancy, Human Capital, Social Security and Growth
Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
We analyze the effects of changes in the mortality rate upon life expectancy, education, retirement age, human capital and growth in the presence of social security. We build a vintage growth, overlapping generations model ... -
Prices and the Real Exchange Rate in Hong Kong: 1985-2006
Echeverria Garaigorta, Paulina Elisa; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-11)
This paper seeks to quantify to the extent to which price dynamics in Hong Kong are due to the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. From 1985 to 1998, the CPI in Hong Kong increased spectacularly, yet there was dramatic deflation ... -
R&D Policy in Economies with Endogenous Growth and Non-Renewable Resources
Agnani, Betty; Gutiérrez Huerta, María José; Iza Padilla, María Amaya (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-10)
The aim of this paper is to analyze how active R&D policies affect the growth rate of an economy with endogenous growth and non-renewable resources. We know from Scholz and Ziemens (1999) and Groth (2006) that in infinitely ... -
Skill premium effects on fertility and female labor force supply
Iza Padilla, María Amaya; Ferrero Martínez, Dolores (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
In the last twenty years the United States has seen a positive relationship between female labor supply and total fertility rates, which differs from the pattern observed over the preceding years. We construct a general ... -
Social Security, Education, Retirement and Growth
Iza Padilla, María Amaya; Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-02)
In this paper we analyze the effects of social security policies in an unfunded, earnings-related social security system on the incentives to education investment and voluntary retirement, on growth and on income inequality. ...