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      Ad valorem housing subsidies may reduce house building 

      Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-03)
      In this paper it is shown that an ad valorem housing subsidy set by a central regulator (or a raise in the ad valorem housing subsidy rate) may reduce the number of houses built in the market and increase the price paid ...
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      Geographical mobility and the labour market 

      Vives Coscojuela, Cecilia (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I. UPV-EHU, 2015-05)
      This paper studies the e ect of home-owners' migration costs on migration and unemployment in an economy where workers move both for work- and nonwork- related reasons. To this end, a search model with heterogeneous locations ...
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      Human Capital and Market Size 

      Vives Coscojuela, Cecilia (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU I, 2016-07)
      This paper studies how the size of the labour market aff ects workers' decision to invest in human capital. We consider a model of mismatch where firms rank workers according to their level of skills. The matching process ...
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      On the strategic choice of spatial price policy: the role of the pricing game rules 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Martín Arroyuelos, Ana María ORCID (2001-02)
      In this paper, whe show that the strategic choice of spatial price policy under duopoly crucially depends on the rules of price competition. Thisse and Vives (1988) show that spatial price discrimination is a dominant ...
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      Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID (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 ...
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      Social Housing under Oligopoly 

      Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-03)
      In this paper it is shown that the setting up of a social housing system may decrease the total number of houses built in the market, induce a price of non-social houses greater than the price of houses without that system ...
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      Zoning a cross-border city 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2015)
      This paper investigates zoning in a cross-border linear city that consists of two bordering towns. In each town a local regulator has a say in the location of the local firm. The incentive to gain consumers from the other ...