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Career Concerns and Product Market Competition
Wiley (2016-04-27)This paper studies the effect of increased competition in the product market on managerial incentives. I propose a simple model of career concerns where firms are willing to pay for managerial talent to reduce production ... -
Catalog competition: Theory and experimental evidence
Wiley (2022-07-06)This paper compares the standard location-then-pricing Hotelling duopoly with a catalog competition game in which firms simultaneously decide locations and prices. We consider a three-location space and continuous pricing ... -
Causas y efectos de la integración económica en América Latina
Instituto de Economía y Finanzas. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (2017)El tema central a abordar en este artículo es la medición de las causas y efectos de los acuerdos de integración en Latino América. Se consideran los efectos de la integración en el ALADI y el Mercosur sobre las cadenas ... -
Central East European Countries’ accession into the European Union: role of extensive margin for trade in intermediate and final goods
Springer US (2015)We study the effect on trade in intermediates and final goods of the Central East European Countries’ (CEECs) accession into the European Union (EU) for the period 1999–2009. In doing so, we estimate a gravity model that ... -
Changes in sovereign debt dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe
Wiley (2019-05)The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the degree of sustainability of fiscal debt for a group of Central and Eastern European countries. We apply a battery of time series econometrics methods to show how the ... -
Climate change, natural disasters, and international migration: A country-level analysis considering climatic zones
Frontiers Media (2023)Climate change and natural disasters might increase the vulnerability of populations in aected regions. This article investigates the link between climatic events and bilateral migration from countries in the Global South ... -
Club convergence in European housing prices: The role of macroeconomic and housing market fundamentals
Elsevier (2021-07-12)This study aims to determine whether there is convergence in house prices across a sample of European economies, including members and non-members of the Eurozone. Overall the literature has found no evidence of convergence ... -
Club Convergence of Sectoral CO2 Emissions in the European Union.
Elsevier (2019-10-22)An understanding of the evolution of sectoral CO2 emissions for all EU countries in recent decades would clearly be useful for political authorities when designing future environmental policies. This paper investigates ... -
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?
Taylor and Francis (2022)In this paper, we analyse the existence of clusters in self-employment rates, segregating by place of birth, i.e. native vs foreign-born, in a group of 17 European countries. The analysis suggests that natives behave ... -
Co-movement between residential and commercial housing prices: evidence from a new database
Taylor & Francis (2020)The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the issue of the co-movement between residential real estate and commercial real estate using a newly developed database by the Bank if International Settlements. Our results ... -
Colusión en un duopolio de Bertrand con rendimientos decrecientes y productos diferenciados
Universidad de Chile (2008)Estudiamos las implicaciones que tienen sobre la estabilidad del cartel los rendimientos de escala en presencia de productos diferenciados cuando las empresas compiten en precios. Mostramos que el cartel puede ser ... -
Comercio de derechos de emisión, adopción de tecnología y heterogeneidad de industrias: un enfoque experimental
Ministerio de Industria Comercio y Turismo (2009-06)The economic and environmental gains expected from particular environmental policies based on allowances trading programs depend on how they are specifically implemented in the field. In this paper we focus on a tradable ... -
Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)
Elsevier (2015-06)In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling ... -
Common smooth transition trend-stationarity in European unemployment
Elsevier (2008)This paper analyzes the hypothesis of hysteresis in Europe. The results are favorable to smooth transition trend-stationarity in European unemployment rates around highly persistent structural changes. In addition, we find ... -
Communication in a threshold public goods game under ambiguity
Routledge (2020-08-30)This paper offers evidence on the impact of communication on the provision of public goods whose quality is uncertain, such as investment in prevention or fundraising in favour of non-governmental organizations (NGO). We ... -
Community participation in heritage tourism planning: is it too much to ask?
Taylor & Francis (2017-12)Considering the complications of collecting empirical data on community participation, this study proposes a new methodological approach that departs from the current literature. For the first time, an experimental procedure ... -
Comparing the Performance of National Educational Systems: Inequality Versus Achievement?
Springer Netherlands (2018)We measure performance change for the educational systems of 28 countries which participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in years 2007 and 2011 for eighth grade basic education students. ... -
Competitive Pressure and the Adoption of Complementary Innovations
American Economic Association (2012-06)Liberalization of the European automobile distribution system in 2002 limits the ability of manufacturers to impose vertical restraints, lead- ing to a substantial increase in competitive pressure among dealers. We estimate ... -
Constructing a financial inclusion index for Mexican municipalities
Elsevier (2023)Access to financial services varies sharply around the world among countries but also within regions and municipalities in the same country. To identify this important variation multivariate indices have been considered ... -
Consultative democracy and trust
Elsevier (2018)We report experimental results from three Colombian villages concerning the impact of a voting mechanism on interpersonal trust and trustworthiness. The vote is purely consultative in that participants are asked to declare ...