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School bullying and social networks
(2022)
Although school bullying has enormous health, social, and economic consequences that last throughout the entire human life, most bullying- prevention programs are ineffective partially because detecting bullies and their ...
The importance of efficient designs in discrete choice experiments for environmental valuation
(2022)
Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are considered to be an appealing approach that is nowadays frequently used among researchers in many fields. No exception is their application in the field of environmental valuation, ...
Detecting collusion: An application of the synthetic control method
(2022)
The Spanish antitrust authorities charged car makers with information sharing and collusion in the Spanish market in the period 2006 - 2013. Using data on car prices for models sold in a set of European countries, in the ...
Electricity Price Forecasting using Sale and Purchase Curves: The X-Model Evidence for Spain
(2022)
In this Master Thesis, we implement in the Spanish electricity market the X-Model proposed by Ziel and Steinert (2016), combining the insights of market structure models with econometric techniques. Instead of directly ...
A discriminatory auction for the day-ahead electricity market: its effect on windfall profits
(2022-07-29)
The main goal of the present Master Thesis is to analyze the Spanish elec- tricity day-ahead market from the design perspective, which like most European countries follows a uniform auction. Indeed, the price is set by the ...
An Analysis of the Tourism Demand in the Dominican Republic From 2001 to 2021
(2022)
In this study, we estimate the tourism demand elasticities model by income and prices in the Dominican Republic from the top ten leading countries in tourism, from the first quarter of 2001 to the last quarter of 2021. The ...
Measuring healthcare deprivation from self-reported data
(2022)
The aim of this Master’s thesis is to analyze households’ healthcare deprivation and its determinants in Spain for the years 2014, 2017 and 2020. The analysis is divided in two main sections; the first one aims to determine ...
Employment and the risk of domestic violence
(2022)
In this master’s thesis we study the effect on the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) for women of the emplyoment status of herself, her partner and income to- gether with a set of exogenous sociodemographic factors. ...
The swing of the inflation dynamics across OECD countries
(2022)
In recent business cycles, U.S. inflation has experienced a reduction in inflation volatility, inflation persistence and, a severe weakening of the correlation with nominal interest (Gibson's paradox). This project concludes ...
Estimation of the price elasticity of the Spanish households’ electricity demand
(2022)
In the past few months the electricity price has considerably increased in Spain due to major international crises which lead to instability in the market. To understand better how Spanish households change their consumption ...