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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 ...
Pulse vs. Optimal Stationary Fishing: The Northern Stock of Hake
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
Pulse fishing may be a global optimal strategy in multicohort fisheries. In this article we compare the pulse fishing solutions obtained by using global numerical methods with the analytical stationary optimal solution. ...
Lessons from the northern hake long-term management plan: Could the economic assessment have accepted it?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-01)
An economic expert working group (STECF/SGBRE-07-05) was convened in 2007 for evaluating the potential economic consequences of a Long-Term Management Plan for the northern hake. Analyzing all the scenarios proposed by ...
Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)
This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be ...
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 ...
Business cycles in a small open economy: The case of Hong Kong
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)
This paper analyzes the business cycle properties of the Hong Kong economy during the 1982-2004 period, which includes the financial crisis experienced in 1997-98. We show that output, output growth rate and real interest ...