Browsing Master in Economics: Empirical Applications and Policies by Title
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Electricity Price Forecasting using Sale and Purchase Curves: The X-Model Evidence for Spain
(2022)In this Master Thesis, we implement in the Spanish electricity market the X-Model proposed by Ziel and Steinert (2016), combining the insights of market structure models with econometric techniques. Instead of directly ... -
Employment and the risk of domestic violence
(2022)In this master’s thesis we study the effect on the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) for women of the emplyoment status of herself, her partner and income to- gether with a set of exogenous sociodemographic factors. ... -
Estimation of costs and benefits of debris mitigation
(2021)Space debris is an ever escalating problem that is increasing the orbital scarcity and threatening its sustainability. In this document, we present a model for the market of satellite services where firms’ activity imposes ... -
Estimation of the price elasticity of the Spanish households’ electricity demand
(2022)In the past few months the electricity price has considerably increased in Spain due to major international crises which lead to instability in the market. To understand better how Spanish households change their consumption ... -
Evolvement of a household’s income after retirement: A microeconomic study into French and Spanish households
(2023)Replacement rates are an effective way to analyze how income evolves following the retirement of an individual as the ratio of pre- and post-retirement income. Individuals generally live in a multi-person household, which ... -
Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of government debt in the Euro Area
(2020)This paper empirically analyzes fiscal policy sustainability and the cyclicality in 19 Euro Area countries using data on government debt, primary deficit and the output gap. We investigate this over quarterly intervals, ... -
Gender gap in the energy sector. Evidence from Spain
(2021)The energy transition is at the heart of the current energy debate and its social dimension is becoming more relevant in the latest policy developments. This Master Thesis aims to develop the research on one of the ... -
Geometry of Diffusion: structure of connectivity and systemic risk in financial networks.
(2021)Ever since the 2008 global financial crises, both scholars and practitioners have argued that the interconnectivity of financial and banking networks is a key determinant of global systemic risk. Employing a simple diffusion ... -
Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sectors: an input-output approach
(2020)After the Paris agreement, the transition to a low carbon economy is at the heart of the debate of the European energy and climate policy. One of the central targets of this transformation proposes changes in the energy ... -
Health in cities: neighborhood effects and scioeconomic determinants in the Spanish case
(2020)The impact of place on individual outcomes, like health, presents many causal challenges that have disputed treatments in the literature. A 2011 study by Bilger Carrieri addresses them via instrumentation, to surprising ... -
Impact of the phase out of French nuclear plants on the Spanish electricity market
(2020)One of the key elements in the transition to low carbon economies is the phase-out of fossil-fuel based technologies. Nuclear power, despite not being a high emitting source, is one of the technologies at the heart of the ... -
Improving the understanding of individual and household characteristics in the analysis of poverty in Bolivia
(2022)This thesis aims to determine to what extent differences in individual and household characteristics within the same country affect the poverty of different areas of Bolivia or different social groups. The analysis is ... -
Labor market transitions and the emancipation of young people
(2022)Youth emancipation is defined as the state of independence that young people achieve when they have a job and can afford housing independent of their parents. In the last decade, Spain shows a growing number of young people ... -
Measuring economic segregation in the US-Metropolitan areas
(2021)This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on “Income Ethnical Segregation” by constructing an index that analyses US Census Data from 1990 until 2010. Following the groundwork of the “SSI” the results can be considered ... -
Measuring healthcare deprivation from self-reported data
(2022)The aim of this Master’s thesis is to analyze households’ healthcare deprivation and its determinants in Spain for the years 2014, 2017 and 2020. The analysis is divided in two main sections; the first one aims to determine ... -
Measuring school income segregation in Spain
(2020)In this work, our goal is to answer if Spanish students are differently located among schools depending on their standard of living. In other words, we analyse the segregation by income in schools in Spain. To do so, we ... -
Opportunity bias in Spain: empirical evidence, drivers and trends
(2021)The aim of this study is to measure opportunity bias in Spain. This purpose requires to analyse current outcomes as a function of opportunities, and how the latter affect the first. Opportunities are defined in terms of ... -
Pigmentocracy, social mobility and inequality of opportunity in Mexico
(2020)Wealth inequality in Mexico has gained attention in recent years, with a public responding to economic realities that precipitate less security and a more narrow horizon of opportunity for its citizens. This paper examines ... -
Poverty in the Basque Country and poverty reduction measures
(2019)After the Great Recession, there is a wide debate about the implementation of Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) in order to reduce poverty. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Basque Country ... -
Public and private interest politics
(2019)This paper analyses the factors that influence politicians to enter politics. The objective of the project is to examine if the main motivation of politicians to enter politics is public interest or private interest. In ...