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Income risk of EU coal-fired power plants after Kyoto
Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel
(2008-10)
Coal-fired power plants may enjoy a significant advantage relative to gas plants in terms of cheaper fuel cost. Still, this advantage may erode or even turn into disadvantage depending on CO2 emission allowance price. This ... -
Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller Moya, Luis Miguel; Shaw, Ingrid (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-09)
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals’ notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed ... -
Inequality for Wage Earners and Self-Employed: Evidence from Panel Data
Albarrán, Pedro; Carrasco, Raquel; Martínez Granado, María Teresa (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-03)
In this paper we study the evolution of income inequality for employees and self-employed workers. We highlight the importance of separately analyze these different sources of income to gain a broader understanding of ... -
International and Intergenerational Dimensions of Climate Change: North-South Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Framework
Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto; Escapa García, Marta ; Pérez, Azucena (2003-12)
Global environmental problems such as climate change have both an international and an intertemporal dimension. Recently, some papers have used an overlapping generations framework to analyze the climate change problem ... -
INTERPOL's surveillance network in curbing transnational terrorism
Gardeazabal, Javier; Sandler, Todd (2014-10-23)
This paper investigates the role that INTERPOL surveillance – the Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND) – played in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND ... -
Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (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 ... -
Kontsumitzailearen teoriaren ekarpenak hizkuntza gutxituen erabilpena aztertzeko
Zendoia Sainz, José María (Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, 1998)
Mikroekonomiaren bitartez, hizkuntza gutxitu bateko hiztunek egin beharreko aukera, hizkuntzaren erabilerari dagokionean, kontsumitzailearen teorian oinarritutako eredu batez aurkezten da, bertan,euskararen egoera eta ... -
Learning in Network Games
Kovarik, Jaromir; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, José Gabriel (Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2012-11-23)
We report the findings of an experiment designed to study how people learn and make decisions in network games. Network games offer new opportunities to identify learning rules, since on networks (compared to e.g. random ... -
Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields: An Experiment
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2013-12)We investigate a version of the classic Colonel Blotto game in which individual battles may have different values. Two players allocate a fixed budget across battlefields and each battlefield is won by the player who ... -
Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green Versus Scitovsky on Profit and Utility Maximization
Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena (2005)
I contrast the theoretical foundation of profit maximization of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green’s “Microeconomics” against that provided by Scitovsky in a paper of 1943. Whereas Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green try to show ... -
Mergers in Durable Goods Industries
Sagasta Elorza, Amagoia; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)
This paper is concerned with the study of durability as an aspect of competition and market structure that contributes to determining the incentives for mergers. We find that relative to the incentives in industries that ... -
Merging to License: Internal vs. External Patentee
(2003-01)In this paper, we endogenize the decision of a research laboratory that owns a patented process innovation on whether to remain independent as an external patentee or to merge with a manufacturing firm, becoming an internal ... -
Methods for Measuring Aggregate Costs of Conflict
Gardeazabal, Javier (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-09)
This paper reviews the methods for measuring the economic cost of conflict. Estimating the economic costs of conflict requires a counterfactual calculation, which makes this a very difficult task. Social researchers have ... -
Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria
Iriberri Etxebeste, Nagore; Uriarte Ayo, José Ramón (2011)
We investigate a society with two official languages: A, shared by all individuals and B, spoken by a bilingual mirority. Thus, it is only B that needs t increase its population share, and therefore, only the language ... -
Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (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 ... -
Monopoly price discrimination with constant elasticity demand
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon George (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-11)
This paper presents new results on the welfare e¤ects of third-degree price discrimination under constant elasticity demand. We show that when both the share of the strong market under uniform pricing and the elasticity ... -
Monte Carlo Valuation of natural gas investments
Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel (2006-07)
This paper deals with the valuation of energy assets related to natural gas. In particular, we evaluate a baseload Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plant and an ancillary instalation, namely a Liquefied Natural Gas ... -
Moral Hazard and the Internal Organization of Joint Research
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-06)This paper analyzes the impact of agency problems on two entrepreneurs’ choice whether to carry out a stand-alone or a joint project. A joint project can be conducted by a single or both entrepreneurs’ research units, which ... -
Network formation under institutional constraints
Olaizola Ortega, María Norma; Valenciano Llovera, Federico (2011-05)
We study the effects of institutional constraints on stability, efficiency and network formation. An exogenous "societal cover" consisting of a collection of possibly overlapping subsets covering the set of players specifies ... -
Non-Stationary Demand in a Durable Goods Monopoly
Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-01)
In a context where demand for the services of a durable good changes over time, and this change may be uncertain, the paper shows that social welfare may be higher when the monopolist seller can commit to any future price ...