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Resetting parameters in the acquisition of a second language
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2003)
Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage
(2003-03)
We analyze the consequences of consumers behavior concerning personal arbitrage in a spatial discrimination context where firms know the consumers distribution but cannot distinguish them by location. The firms' equilibrium ...
An Analysis of English, Spanish and Basque Demonstratives in Narrative: a Matter of Viewpoint
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2003)
[EN]This paper undertakes the study of the occurrence of non-corresponding demonstrative forms in Spanish, Basque and English in exactly the same linguistic context. It is proposed that the differenccs in the choice of the ...
International and Intergenerational Dimensions of Climate Change: North-South Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Framework
(2003-12)
Global environmental problems such as climate change have both an international and an intertemporal dimension. Recently, some papers have used an overlapping generations framework to analyze the climate change problem ...
Hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus in the paediatric population in Spain
(Cambridge University Press, 2003-10)
The aim of this population-based retrospective study was to determine the incidence of hospitalization for community-acquired, laboratory-confirmed respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in an unselected paediatric ...
Tracing Back (in Awe) a Hundred Years' History of Spanish Translations: Washington Irving's The Alhambra
(Multilingual Matters, 2003)
[EN] This contribution shows how the first Spanish version (1888) of the first English edition (1832) of Tales of The Alhambra has become the most widespread and used text of Washington Irving’s The Alhambra in Spanish for ...
The Supercore for Normal Form Games
(2003-10)
We study the supercore of a system derived from a normal form game. For the case of a finite game with pure strategies, we define a sequence of games and show that the supercore of that system coincides with the set of ...
Maturational Constraints on Foreign-language Written Production
(Multilingual Matters, 2003)
The role of the term spread in an augmented Taylor rule: An empirical investigation
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-04)
Using US data for the period 1967:5-2002:4, this paper empirically investigates the performance of an augmented version of the Taylor rule (ATR) that (i) allows for the presence of switching regimes, (ii) considers the ...
Career Planning in Spain: Do temporary contracts delay marriage and motherhood?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-04)
The aim of this paper is to find an empirical connection between the impressive increase in the use of temporary contracts in Spain and the observed increase in age at marriage and maternity. Using a pool of the six available ...