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Discounting future pain: Effects on self-reported pain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-07)
Empirical results are presented showing that people who acknowledge pain anticipation when expecting an injury experience higher sensitivity to pain (GREP, Robinson et al., 2001). The positive correlation between sensitivity ...
Time discounting (delta) and pain anticipation: Experimental evidence
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-11)
This paper deals with pain anticipation experienced before medical procedures. Our experimental results show that individuals with lower discount factors are more prone to suffer pain in advance. We provide a framework to ...
The Economic Cost of Armed Conflict
(2016-12-13)
This paper estimates the distribution of the effect of armed conflict on real GDP per capita and investment. For each conflict, we construct a synthetic control from a set of conflict-free countries that closely resembles ...
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 ...
The impact of technological progress on the labor market: employment polarization in Europe
(2019)
Following findings of recent literature, we analyze which are the main effects of the routine-bias technical change on employment. The master thesis shows evidence of employment polarization pattern for 16 European countries ...
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 ...
A bayesian estimation of the economic effects of the Common Fisheries Policy on the Galician Fleet: a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)
What would have happened if a relatively looser fisheries policy had been implemented in the
European Union (EU)? Using Bayesian methods a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model is estimated to assess the ...
Forecasting in electricity markets
(2020-02-07)
Argindar merkatuetako parte-hartzaileek beren merkatu-estrategiak modu eraginkorrean egokitu behar dituzte ahalik eta etekin handienak eskuratzeko. Hautatuko estrategien mozkinak handitzeko, parte-hartzaileek prezio seinale ...
Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
(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 ...
Group size and decision rules in legislative bargaining
(2014-03-17)
We conduct experiments to investigate the effects of different majority requirements on bargaining outcomes in small and large groups. In particular, we use a Baron-Ferejohn protocol and investigate the effects
of decision ...