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ES21: Un Modelo de Simulación de la Economía Española
(2017)
El Modelo de Simulación de la Economía Española proporciona una herramienta para la representación de la realidad socioeconómica española y para el análisis de los impactos asociados tanto a las modificaciones en las ...
Integrated policy assessment and optimisation over multiple sustainable development goals in Eastern Africa
(IOP, 2019-08-20)
Heavy reliance on traditional biomass for household energy in eastern Africa has significant negative health and environmental impacts. The African context for energy access is rather different from historical experiences ...
Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain
(Springer, 2012-03)
Climate change is an important environmental problem and one whose economic implications are many and varied. This paper starts with the presumption that mitigation of greenhouse gases is a necessary policy that has to be ...
Oligopoly price discrimination, competitive pressure and total output
(Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2019-12-11)
This paper extends the traditional analysis of the output effect under monopoly (third-degree) price discrimination to a multimarket oligopoly. The author shows that under oligopoly price discrimination, differences in ...
The potential land requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy
(Nature, 2021-02-03)
Although the transition to renewable energies will intensify the global competition for land, the potential impacts driven by solar energy remain unexplored. In this work, the potential solar land requirements and related ...
Privatization and environmental policy in a mixed oligopoly
(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2019-12)
This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We ...
Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio Has a Non-Monotonic Impact on Altruism
(PLoS ONE, 2013-05-10)
Gene-culture co-evolution emphasizes the joint role of culture and genes for the emergence of altruistic and cooperative behaviors and behavioral genetics provides estimates of their relative importance. However, these ...
Prosocial behavior and gender
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-04-14)
This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" ...
Natural Disasters and Indicators of Social Cohesion
(Public Library Science, 2017-06-07)
Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and ...