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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 ...
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 ...
The relation between electricity and natural gas spot prices in Spain: cointegration and volatility spill-over analysis
(2021)
The relation between electricity and natural gas prices got increased attention recently, after their joint rise in many European countries. The present Master Thesis explains the theoretical relation between both markets ...
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 ...
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. ...
The swing of the inflation dynamics across OECD countries
(2022)
In recent business cycles, U.S. inflation has experienced a reduction in inflation volatility, inflation persistence and, a severe weakening of the correlation with nominal interest (Gibson's paradox). This project concludes ...
The demand for health services in Spain: does having private insurance matter?
(2021)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the question of whether there exists any difference in the use of the Spanish healthcare services between privately and publicly insured individuals. The analysis is carried out ...
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 ...
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 ...