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Do experimental subjects favor their friends?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-06)
Ideally we would like subjects of experiments to be perfect strangers so that the situation they face at the lab is not just part of a long run interaction. Unfortunately, it is not easy to reach those conditions and ...
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 ...
Admissible Hierachic Sets
(2005-05)
In this paper we present a solution concept for abstract systems called the admissible hierarchic set. The solution we propose is a refinement of the hierarchic solution, a generalization of the von Neumann and Morgenstern ...
Growth in an oil abundant economy: The case of Venezuela
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-09)
Venezuela's growth experience over the past fifty years is characterized by a high economic growth rate from 1950 to 1970 and a low economic growth rate in the last thirty years. Although Venezuela is an oil abundant ...
How Does the New Keynesian Monetary Model Fit in the U.S. and the Eurozone? an Indirect Inference Approach
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-05)
This paper estimates a standard version of the New Keynesian monetary (NKM) model under alternative specifications of the monetary policy rule using U.S. and Eurozone data. The estimation procedure implemented is a classical ...
Life Expectancy, Human Capital, Social Security and Growth
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
We analyze the effects of changes in the mortality rate upon life expectancy, education, retirement age, human capital and growth in the presence of social security. We build a vintage growth, overlapping generations model ...
Strategic Behavior and Collusion: An Application to the Spanish Electricity Market
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
The paper has two major contributions to the theory of repeated games. First, we build a supergame oligopoly model where firms compete in supply functions, we show how collusion sustainability is affected by the presence ...
Valuing Flexibility: The case of an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant
(2005-10)
In this paper we analyze the valuation of options stemming from the flexibility in an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Plant. First we use as a base case the opportunity to invest in a Natural Gas Combined ...
Immigrants Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-05)
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years ...