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Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination
(2009-12)
In this paper, we show that in order for third-degree price discrimination to increase total output, the demands of the strong markets should be, as conjectured by Robinson (1933), more concave than the demands of the weak ...
Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature
(2009-08)
This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and oputput when all markets are served. Sufficient conditions -involving straightforward comparisons of ...
Education and the dynamics of family decisions
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-04)
This paper investigates the extent to which a biased transmission of educational endowments affects fertility. To this end, we devise a version of Becker’s family decision model that takes preference change into account. ...
Reference Points and Optimal Management in Stochastic Age-Structured Fisheries Models
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-07)
The purpose of this article is to characterize dynamic optimal harvesting trajectories that maximize discounted utility assuming an age-structured population model, in the same line as Tahvonen (2009). The main novelty of ...
Why Economists Reject Long-Term Fisheries Management Plans?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-08)
Most fisheries agencies conduct biological and economic assessments independently. This independent conduct may lead to situations in which economists reject management plans proposed by biologists. The objective of this ...
Endogenous Unions Formation
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-12)
This paper analyzes the process of endogenous union formation in the context of a sequential bargaining model between a firm and several unions and tries to explain why workers may be represented by several unions of ...
A sensitivity study of bias and variance of k-fold cross-validation in prediction error estimation
(2009)
In the machine learning field the performance of a classifier is usually measured in terms of prediction error. In most real-world problems, the error cannot be exactly calculated and it must be estimated. Therefore, it’s ...
Turnout Intention and Social Networks
(2009-06)
How can networking affect the turnout in an election? We present a simple model to explain turnout as a result of a dynamic process of formation of the intention to vote within Erdös-Renyi random networks. Citizens have ...
Employment comovements at the sectoral level over the business cycle
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-12)
This paper extends the technique suggested by den Haan (2000) to investigate contemporaneous as well as lead and lag correlations among economic data for a range of forecast horizons. The technique provides a richer picture ...
Altruism and Social Integration
(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 ...