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An austerity-driven energy reform
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013-12)
In July 2013, the government approved a major overhaul of the Spanish electricity sector to correct existing imbalances that have led to an exponential increase of regulated electricity costs and a huge tariff deficit. The ...
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 ...
Understanding Tariff Deficit and its Challenges
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2013-01)
Regulators and market participants have become increasingly concerned about the Spanish electricity tariff deficit due to its size and the difficulties to control its growth. The deficit can be traced to inefficiencies in ...
Consumer Expertise or Credit Risk? An empirical analysis of mortgage pricing
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
Loan mortgage interest rates are usually the result of a bank-customer negotiation process. Credit risk, consumer cross-buying potential, bundling, financial market competition and other features affecting the bargaining ...
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 ...
Moral cleansing and moral licenses: experimental evidence
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
Research on moral cleansing and moral self-licensing has introduced dynamic considerations in the theory of moral behavior. Past bad actions trigger negative feelings that make people more likely to engage in future moral ...
Income tax progressivity, growth, income inequality and welfare
(Springer, 2015-03)
This paper analyzes the effects of personal income tax progressivity on long-run economic growth, income inequality and social welfare. The quantitative implications of income tax progressivity increments are illustrated ...
Public and private interest politics
(2019)
This paper analyses the factors that influence politicians to enter politics. The objective of the project is to examine if the main motivation of politicians to enter politics is public interest or private interest. In ...
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 ...
The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
(2019)
On June 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. This unexpected result provides us with the opportunity to study the impact of the vote on the economy. We replicate the work done by Born et al. (2017) ...