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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 ...
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 ...
Woman and mother: double employment penalty?
(2020)
This paper analyzes how females and males modify their labor situation after having a
child to reconcile work and family life in Spain. The analysis aims to examine whether the
heterogeneity in parents’ employment is ...
The effect of a newborn on Spanish households' expenditure
(2020)
This article aims to carry out an analysis of the effects of a newborn on Spanish households expenditure in 2014 and 2015. A standard difference-in-differences (DID) estimator would then compare the change in expenditure ...
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 ...
A discriminatory auction for the day-ahead electricity market: its effect on windfall profits
(2022-07-29)
The main goal of the present Master Thesis is to analyze the Spanish elec- tricity day-ahead market from the design perspective, which like most European countries follows a uniform auction. Indeed, the price is set by the ...
An Analysis of the Tourism Demand in the Dominican Republic From 2001 to 2021
(2022)
In this study, we estimate the tourism demand elasticities model by income and prices in the Dominican Republic from the top ten leading countries in tourism, from the first quarter of 2001 to the last quarter of 2021. The ...
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 ...
Territorial distribution of immigrants in Europe
(2020)
Uneven distribution of immigrant population has diverse consequences in countries and societies. We call immigrants those that have a nationality different to the reporting country. Some European regions have an important ...
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 ...