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Demand for Cultural Heritage
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
The concept of cultural heritage has experienced a process of extension during the past few decades. Because it is a cultural construction, it is subject to differences in appreciation based on
contextual and institutional ...
Social Interactions and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Latin America
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. Furthermore, we test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of ...
Forecasting accuracy of behavioural models for participation in the arts
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012-01)
In this paper, we assess the forecasting performance of count data models applied to arts attendance. We estimate participation models for two artistic activities that differ in their degree of popularity -museum and jazz ...
Full Implementation of Rank Dependent Prizes
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
A manager/mechanism designer must allocate a set of money
prizes ($1, $2, .., $n) between n agents working in a team. The agents know
the state i.e. who contributed most, second most, etc. The agents' prefer-
ences over ...
Competitive Pressure and Job Interview Lying: A Game Theoretical Analysis
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
We consider a job contest in which candidates go through
interviews (cheap talk) and are subject to reference checks. We show how
competitive pressure - increasing the ratio of "good" to "bad" type candi-
dates - can ...
Democratic Values Transmission
(2013-01)
This study addresses the issue of intergenerational transmission of democratic values embedded in social choice rules. We focus on a few rules which have been the focus of social choice theory: plurality, plurality with a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unraveling Public Good Games: The Role of Priors
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-02)
This paper provides experimental evidence on how players predict end game effects in a linear public good game. Our regression analysis yields a measure of the relative importance of priors and signals on subjects\' beliefs ...