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Ad valorem housing subsidies may reduce house building
Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-03)
In this paper it is shown that an ad valorem housing subsidy set by a central regulator (or a raise in the ad valorem housing subsidy rate) may reduce the number of houses built in the market and increase the price paid ... -
Adam Smith on Capital and Income
Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena (2002-02)
In this paper I critically analyze Smith's thesis in book I, chapter 6 of the "Wealth of Nations" that the replacement of the capital goods consumed in production becomes fully income. I argue that Smith’s argument is ... -
Adam Smith on labour and value: challenging the standard interpretation
Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena (2006)
This paper has two parts. In the first I critically analyze Smith’s refutation of the labor theory of value in book I, chapter 6 of his “Wealth of Nations”. My thesis is that Smith’s refutation is unsound and that Ricardo ... -
Administración y gestión del portal de Guías Clínicas Informatizadas Aide Portal
(2013)En los últimos años, las Guías Clínicas basadas en la revisión sistemática de la evidencia científica se han convertido en un vehículo esencial para la transferencia efectiva del conocimiento médico a la atención primaria. ... -
Admissible Hierachic Sets
Iñarra García, María Elena; Larrea Jaurrieta, María Concepción (2005-05)
In this paper we present a solution concept for abstract systems called the admissible hierarchic set. The solution we propose is a refinement of the hierarchic solution, a generalization of the von Neumann and Morgenstern ... -
Algunas demostraciones de incomputabilidad usando la técnica de diagonalización
Ibáñez Martínez-Conde, Jesús; Irastorza Goñi, María Aránzazu ; Sánchez Ortega, Ana (2000)
Los supuestos fundamentales de la Teoría de la Computabilidad se establecieron antes de la aparición de los primeros ordenadores (a finales de los años 40), supuestos que muchos años de vertiginoso cambio no han conseguido ... -
Altruism and Social Integration
; ; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz; ; Kovarik, Jaromir ; (2009)
We report on a two-stage experiment in which i) we first elicit the social network within a section of undergraduate students and ii) we then measure their altruistic attitudes by means of a standard Dictator game. We ... -
Altruism in the (Social) Network
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz; Jiménez, Natalia; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-11)
This paper explores the role of social integration on altruistic behavior. To this aim, we develop a two-stage experimental protocol based on the classic Dictator Game. In the first stage, we ask a group of 77 undergraduate ... -
Altruism with Social Roots: An Emerging Literature
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-11)
This paper analyzes the emerging literature on the determinants of giving within a social network. We propose two main explanatory variables for previous experimental results on the friendship effect. The first is social ... -
An Alternative View of the US Price-Dividend Ratio Dynamics
; Regúlez Castillo, Marta; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús (2014-12)
As a necessary condition for the validity of the present value model, the price-dividend ratio must be stationary. However, significant market episodes seem to provide evidence of prices significantly drifting apart from ... -
An Approach to the stability of international environmental agreements: the absorbing sets solution
Olaizola Ortega, María Norma (2003-12)
We study international environmental negotiations when agreements between countries can not be binding. A problem with this kind of negotiations is that countries have incentives for free-riding from such agreements. We ... -
An austerity-driven energy reform
Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013-12)
In July 2013, the government approved a major overhaul of the Spanish electricity sector to correct existing imbalances that have led to an exponential increase of regulated electricity costs and a huge tariff deficit. The ... -
An axiomatization of success
Albizuri Irigoyen, Miren Iosune; Laruelle, Annick (2011)
In this paper we give an axiomatic characterization of three families of measures of success defined by Laruelle and Valenciano (2005) for voting rules. -
An empirical comparison of the performance of alternative option pricing models
Rubio Irigoyen, Gonzalo; Ferreira García, María Eva; Gago, Mónica; León, Angel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
This paper presents a comparison of alternative option pricing models based neither on jump-diffusion nor stochastic volatility data generating processes. We assume either a smooth volatility function of some previously ... -
An Estimated New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment as Excess Supply of Labor
Casares, Miguel; Moreno, Antonio; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
Wage stickiness is incorporated to a New-Keynesian model with variable capital to drive endogenous unemployment uctuations de ned as the log di¤erence between aggregate labor supply and aggregate labor demand. We estimated ... -
An R package for permutations, Mallows and Generalized Mallows models
Irurozki, Ekhine; Calvo Molinos, Borja; (2014-01-22)
[EN]Probability models on permutations associate a probability value to each of the permutations on n items. This paper considers two popular probability models, the Mallows model and the Generalized Mallows model. We ... -
An update of the J48Consolidated WEKA’s class: CTC algorithm enhanced with the notion of coverage
; Pérez de la Fuente, Jesús María; ; Gurrutxaga Goikoetxea, Ibai ; Arbelaiz Gallego, Olatz (2016-02-12)
This document aims to describe an update of the implementation of the J48Consolidated class within WEKA platform. The J48Consolidated class implements the CTC algorithm [2][3] which builds a unique decision tree based on ... -
Analisis y diagnóstico de episodios de meteorología severa en el País Vasco
Grupo de Medio Ambiente. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao; Gangoiti Bengoa, Gotzon (2002-12-29)
The atmospheric processes prior to and during the outbreak of 2 galernas (July 25, 1995 and May 30, 1996) are analyzed. Data from surface stations, meteorological satellites, the Punta Galea wind profiler radar and numerical ... -
Analysis of Length of Time Spent in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Orbe Lizundia, Jesús María; Ferreira García, María Eva ; Núñez Antón, Vicente Alfredo (2001-01)
This paper investigates original issuers of high yield bonds in Chapter 11 bankruptcy to determine which factors affect the length of time spent in Chapter 11. In order to do this analysis we propose a flexible new duration ... -
Analysis of Spanish text-thesaurus as a complex network
Moujahid, Abdelmalik; Cases Gutiérrez, Blanca Rosa (2014-02-06)
[EN]Based on the theoretical tools of Complex Networks, this work provides a basic descriptive study of a synonyms dictionary, the Spanish Open Thesaurus represented as a graph. We study the main structural measures of the ...