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      Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (2011)
      This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a ...
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      Partial ownership of local firms and zoning of neighboring towns 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2019-03-27)
      This paper investigates zoning in two neighboring towns in which firms are owned by investors that reside in the two towns. We find that local regulators use zoning strategically depending on the weight of local profits ...
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      Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations 

      Dong, Quean; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2016-06)
      We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complement or substitute goods and that compete with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants of the ...
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      Perpaus adberbialen agerpena, maiztasuna eta kokapena EPEC‐DEP corpusean 

      González Dios, Itziar ORCID; Aranzabe Urruzola, María Jesús ORCID; Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Arantza ORCID (2015-02-26)
      In this report we present the results obtained analysing the use, frequency of use and the position of adverbial clauses. This analysis has been performed in the Basque Dependency Treebank (BDT). We also have used the ...
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      Personal identity. A theoretical and experimental analysis 

      Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Miller Moya, Luis Miguel ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009)
      This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in altruism. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social ...
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      PIM-SM extension for Source-Specific Multicast through non multicast networks 

      Rivadeneyra Sicilia, José María ORCID (2015-10-08)
      Deployment of multicast in the open Internet is stagnated, mainly as a result of service provider policies and network limitations. To skip the lack of multicast connectivity between receivers and networks that carry traffic ...
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      Policy Coordination in an Oligopolistic Housing Market 

      Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel; Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-03)
      This paper analyzes the consequences of the interaction between two different levels of government (regulators) in the development of housing policy when their decisions determine the level of competition in the housing ...
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      Political Institutions, Technology and Growth: a dynamic panel approach 

      Zuazu Bermejo, Izaskun (Departamento Fundamentos del Ánálisis Económico I UPV/EHU, 2015-10)
      This paper investigates whether the effect of political institutions on sectoral economic performance is determined by the level of technological development of industries. Building on previous studies on the linkages among ...
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      Population age structure and private consumption in Spain 

      Eguía Peña, María Begoña ORCID; Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
      In this paper we study the effect of population age distribution upon private consumption expenditure in Spain from 1964 to 1997 using aggregate data. We obtain four main results. First, changes in the population pyramid ...
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      Predicting Betas: Two new methods 

      Esteban González, María Victoria ORCID; Tusell Palmer, Fernando Jorge ORCID (2009)
      Betas play a central role in modern finance. The estimation of betas from historical data and their extrapolation into the future is of considerable practical interest. We propose two new methods: the first is a direct ...
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      Preferences, actions and voting rules 

      Artabe Echevarria, Alaitz ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2011-01-17)
      In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not ...
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      Prices and the Real Exchange Rate in Hong Kong: 1985-2006 

      Echeverria Garaigorta, Paulina Elisa; Iza Padilla, María Amaya ORCID (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 ...
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      Privatización de pensiones y provisión de garantías: una exploración del caso español 

      Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID (2003-07)
      Los sistemas de pensiones públicas de reparto con prestación definida a lo largo del mundo se están convirtiendo a planes de aportación definida capitalizados, donde los agentes eligen sus carteras de acciones y bonos. A ...
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      Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID (2003-03)
      We analyze the consequences of consumers behavior concerning personal arbitrage in a spatial discrimination context where firms know the consumers distribution but cannot distinguish them by location. The firms' equilibrium ...
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      Productivity's development in the Basque Economy during the period 1985-1994 

      Oguiza Tovar, Ainhoa (1998-09)
      [EN] The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of Basque Country's economy's productivity in the period 1985-1994 and, identify which are the factors that decide that evolution. We specify a Cobb-Douglas production ...
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      Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Navarro Prada, Noemí; Escobedo Martínez, Ramón (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-10)
      In this paper we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are f luent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of pro ficiency in the minority ...
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      Profit and Cost in "Modern" Post-Marxian Profit Theory: A Case Study from Varian's "Intermediate Microeconomics" 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2003-09)
      In this paper, I examine the treatment of competitive profit of professor Varian in his textbook on Microeconomics, as a representative of the “modern” post-Marxian view on competitive profit. I show how, on the one hand, ...
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      Profit as Cost versus Profit as Surplus over Cost: A Case Study on Varian's "Intermediate Microeconomics" 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (UPV/EHU. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I/Ekonomi Analisiaren Oinarriak I Saila, 2004-12)
      On the analysis of Varian’s textbook on Microeconomics, which I take to be a representative of the standard view, I argue that Varian provides two contrary notions of profit, namely, profit as surplus over cost and profit ...
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      Los programas While: bases para una teoría de la computabilidad 

      Ibáñez Martínez-Conde, Jesús ORCID; Irastorza Goñi, María Aránzazu ORCID; Sánchez Ortega, Ana ORCID (1996)
      La Teoría de la Computabilidad estudia los límites teóricos de los sistemas computacionales. Uno de sus objetivos centrales consiste en clasificar los problemas en computables e incomputables, donde llamamos computable a ...
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      Una propuesta para el análisis de tablas múltiples 

      Modroño Herrán, Juan Ignacio ORCID; Fernández Aguirre, María Carmen; Landaluce Calvo, M. Isabel (2003-07)
      El análisis de tablas múltiples ha seguido cuatro direcciones básicas: el Análisis Procusteano, la metodología STATIS, el Análisis Factorial Múltiple y el Análisis Canónico Generalizado. Estos métodos, en general, han sido ...