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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Rationing in the Labor Market
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-07)
This paper characterizes the optimal fiscal policy when it is assumed that there exists a minimum wage below which no worker can be hired. The rigidity due to the minimum wage legislation can lead to equilibria in which ...
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 ...
Inequality for Wage Earners and Self-Employed: Evidence from Panel Data
(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 ...
The Black Box of Mutual Fund Fees
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)
This paper re-examines the determinants of mutual fund fees paid by mutual fund shareholders for management costs and other expenses. There are two novelties with respect to previous studies. First, each type of fee is ...
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 ...