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Understanding Tariff Deficit and its Challenges
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013-01)
Regulators and market participants have become increasingly concerned about the Spanish electricity tariff deficit due to its size and the difficulties to control its growth. The deficit can be traced to inefficiencies in ...
Consumer Expertise or Credit Risk? An empirical analysis of mortgage pricing
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
Loan mortgage interest rates are usually the result of a bank-customer negotiation process. Credit risk, consumer cross-buying potential, bundling, financial market competition and other features affecting the bargaining ...
Resale in Auctions with Financial Constraints
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
This paper analyzes auctions where bidders face nancial constraints that may force
them to resell part of the property of the good (or subcontract part of a project) at
a resale market. First we show that the ine¢ cient ...
Moral cleansing and moral licenses: experimental evidence
(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 ...
Income tax progressivity, growth, income inequality and welfare
(Springer, 2015-03)
This paper analyzes the effects of personal income tax progressivity on long-run economic growth, income inequality and social welfare. The quantitative implications of income tax progressivity increments are illustrated ...
INTERPOL's surveillance network in curbing transnational terrorism
(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 ...
Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)
This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be ...
Methods for Measuring Aggregate Costs of Conflict
(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 ...
Strategic Votes and Sincere Counterfactuals
(2013-11-07)
The Random Utility Model (RUM) of voting behavior can account for strategic voting by making use of proxy indicators that measure voter incentives to vote strategically. The
contribution of this paper is to propose a new ...
Travellers' Types
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010)
This paper uses subjects’ self-reported justifications to explain discrepancies between observed heterogeneous behavior and the unique equilibrium prediction in a one-shot traveler’s dilemma experiment (TD). Principal ...