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Union Formation and Bargaining Rules in the Labor Market
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-03)
This paper analyzes union formation in a model of bargaining between a firm and several unions. We address two questions: first, the optimal configuration of unions (their number and size) and, second, the impact of the ...
Market Power in the Spanish Electricity Auction
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
We use hourly bid data from the Spanish day-ahead electricity auction to obtain a lower bound measure of generators' market power. Our method is not based on cost estimates but rather on the different behavior of strategic ...
Prosocial norms and degree heterogeneity in social networks
(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 ...
Strategic Interaction and Conventions
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-06)
The scope of the paper is the literature that employs coordination games to study social norms and conventions from the viewpoint of game theory and cognitive psychology. We claim that those two alternative approaches are ...
Are Bar Associations Anticompetitive? An Empirical Analysis of Recommended Prices for Legal Services in Spain
(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 ...
Reform of Spain's profesional services market: Implementation of the EU Services Directive
(FUNCAS, 2014-07)
The implementation of the European Commission Services Directive initiated the modernization process of services markets within the European Union. The objective was to guarantee the creation of a single market by ensuring ...
Personal identity. A theoretical and experimental analysis
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009)
This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in altruism. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social ...