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      Are Bar Associations Anticompetitive? An Empirical Analysis of Recommended Prices for Legal Services in Spain 

      Ciarreta Antuñano, Aitor ORCID; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Zurimendi Isla, Aitor ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      The European Commission Report on Competition in Professional Services found that recommended prices by professional bodies have a significant negative effect on competition since they may facilitate the coordination of ...
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      Prosocial norms and degree heterogeneity in social networks 

      Kovarik, Jaromir; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Jiménez, Natalia; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      We provide empirical evidence to support the claims that social diversity promotes prosocial behavior. We elicit a real-life social network and its members’ adherence to a social norm, namely inequity aversion. The data ...
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      Moral cleansing and moral licenses: experimental evidence 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Bucheli, Marisa; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; García-Muñoz, Teresa (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      Research on moral cleansing and moral self-licensing has introduced dynamic considerations in the theory of moral behavior. Past bad actions trigger negative feelings that make people more likely to engage in future moral ...
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      Time Variation in an Optimal Asymmetric Preference Monetary Policy Model 

      Cassou, Steven P.; Vázquez Pérez, Jesús ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
      This paper considers a time varying parameter extension of the Ruge-Murcia (2003, 2004) model to explore whether some of the variation in parameter estimates seen in the literature could arise from this source. A time ...