Browsing Documentos de Trabajo e Informes Técnicos by Author "BARAÑANO MENTXAKA, ILASKI"
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Consumption-Leisure Trade-offs and Persistency in Business Cycles
This paper studies whether nonseparabilities between consumption and leisure may help to explain the observed persistence in GNP growth. We consider an extended version of Lucas' (1988) human capital investment model that ... -
Experimental Economics Meets Language Choice
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; Kovarik, Jaromir
; Uriarte Ayo, José Ramón
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Ánálisis Económico I, 2014-10-08)
Roughly one half of World's languages are in danger of extinction. The endangered languages, spoken by minorities, typically compete with powerful languages such as En- glish or Spanish. Consequently, the speakers of ... -
Foreign Aid Linked to Infrastructure and/or Pollution Abatement
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; San Martín Lizarralde, Marta
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-03)
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in ... -
Long-Term Growth and Persistence with Endogenous Depreciation: Theory and Evidence
Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski; Romero-Avila, Diego (Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2013)
Previous research has shown a strong positive correlation between short-term persistence and long-term output growth as well as between depreciation rates and long-term output growth. This evidence, therefore, contradicts ... -
Output dynamics in an endogenous growth model
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether endogenous growth RBC models are consistent with two stylized facts about U.S. output dynamics. First, GNP growth is positively correlated in the short run and it has a weak ...