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Goals and guesses as reference points: a field experiment on student performance
(Springer, 2022-06)
In this paper, we study overconfidence and goal-setting in academic performance, with and without monetary incentives. Students enrolled in a microeconomics course were offered the possibility of setting their own target ...
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
(Springer, 2018-05)
This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm-
level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting
depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ...
An Agent-based Stock-flow Consistent Model of the Sustainable Transition in the Energy Sector
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
In this paper, we investigate the effects on the economy of a feed-in tariff policy mechanism aimed to foster investments in renewable energy production capacity. To this purpose, we employ an enriched version of the ...
Should I default on my mortgage even if I can pay? Experimental evidence
(Elsevier, 2019-08-21)
We study strategic default in the laboratory, i.e., in a controlled experiment. Subjects are initially endowed with a house and a mortgage (we use neutral wording in the experiment), and must decide at each period in which ...
¿El producto interior bruto es un buen indicador del bienestar de los ciudadanos?. Una comparativa entre España e Italia
(Generalitat Valenciana: Comité economic i social de la Comunitat Valenciana, 2018)
Systemic financial risk indicators and securitised assets: an agent-based framework
(Springer, 2019-09-04)
The paper presents an agent-based model of a credit economy which includes a securitisation process and a bailout mechanism for bank bankruptcies. Within this framework, banks are able to sell mortgages to a financial ...
Monetary incentives and self-chosen goals in academic performance: An experimental study
(Elsevier, 2018-02)
This paper analyzes the effect of incentive-compatible self-chosen goals on academic performance by means of a randomized field experiment. We use two alternative payment mechanisms, a piece-rate and a rank-order tournament, ...
Flujos de remesas y COVID-19 en países de América Latina. Reflexiones al inicio de la pandemia
(Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, 2020-10)
Las remesas que los inmigrantes envían a su país de origen contribuyen a alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), permitiendo que muchas familias salgan de la pobreza.
Dichos envíos han disminuido en la ...
Moving ideas across borders: Foreign inventors, patents and FDI
(Wiley, 2022-05)
This paper explores the link between innovation, migration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) empirically within a theoretically consistent framework. It analyses how migrant inventors enhance multinational firms' adaptive ...
Crypto-environment network connectivity and Bitcoin returns distribution tail behaviour
(Elsevier, 2022-07-21)
This study explores whether and to what extent cryptocurrency ecosystem network connectivity predicts Bitcoin returns across quantiles of the return distribution. The facets of cryptocurrency ecosystem network connectivity ...