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Oil price pass-through into inflation in Spain at national and regional level
Oil price showed sharp fluctuations in recent years which revived the interest in its effect on inflation. In this paper, we discuss the relationship between oil price and inflation in Spain, at national and regional levels, ... -
Old wine in new wineskins? Understanding the cooperative movement: Catalonia, 1860-1939
Different factors have been proposed to explain why in some regions there is a greater tendency to form cooperatives. The debate remains open. In this study, we look at the spread of cooperativism within Catalonia from ... -
On financial frictions and firm market power
Construimos un modelo de equilibrio general estático con empresas monopolísticamente competitivas que toman prestados fondos de bancos competitivos en una economía sujeta a restricciones financieras. Estas fricciones son ... -
On financial frictions and firm's market power
There are two opposing welfare effects of market power in a model with monopolistic competition, loan defaults and moral hazard. The loss of output produced if firms set a higher mark-up over marginal costs confronts with ... -
On firm-level, industry-level, and aggregate employment fluctuations
Employment fluctuations are examined, at different levels of aggregation, in a dynamic model that provides firm-specific hiring decisions due to search frictions and sticky pricing. The results indicate that firm-level ... -
On freedom of choice, ambiguity, and the preference for easy choices
This paper is devoted to the study of opportunity set comparisons when the characteristics of the options within the sets in question may be ambiguous. We assume that agents display a preference for freedom of choice, but ... -
On procedural freedom of choice
Numerous works in the last decade have analyzed the question of how to compare opportunity sets as a way to measure and evaluate individual freedom of choice. This paper defends that, in many contexts, external procedural ... -
On staggered prices and optimal inflation
This paper computes the steady-state optimal rate of inflation assuming two different sticky-price specifications, Calvo (1983) and Taylor (1980), in a model with monopolistic competition. The optimal rate of inflation ... -
On the aversion to incomplete preferences
We propose an axiomatization of aversion to incomplete preferences. Some prevailing models of incomplete preferences rely on the hypothesis that incompleteness is temporary and that by keeping their opportunity set open ... -
On the equivalence of the two existing extensions of the leximax criterion to the infinite case
Using a common framework, we consider the two existing extensions of the leximax criterion to infinite environments (Arlegi et al. (2005) and Ballester and De Miguel (2003), and show that, though the respective definitions ... -
On the insurance function of fiscal policy in a monetary union
In this paper we first review the available literature on the degree of insurance against shocks, provided by the central budget in the federal systems already existing. Next, we discuss the main points raised on the debate ... -
Orígenes, expansión y crisis de la empresa harinera Alzugaray y Compañía, 1840-1888
La historia económica de la empresa harinera de Alzugaray y Compañía permite abordar la trayectoria de los mercados en los que actuó la burguesía navarra aprovechando las ventajas comparativas que ofreció el nuevo marco ... -
The other halves of fascist Italy: income inequality from dynamic social tables, 1900-1950
This paper documents new, yearly estimates of overall income inequality for Italy, from the first industrial 'take-off' to the eve of the ‘Economic Miracle’, contributing both to the comparative literature on the evolution ... -
El papel del agua como recurso energético
Trabajo en el que se aborda la mutua dependencia agua-energía y el agua como fuente de producción eléctrica -
Pareto rationalizability by two single-peaked preferences
We study, in a finite setting, the problem of Pareto rationalizability of choice functions by means of a preference profile that is single-peaked with respect to an exogenously given linear order over the alternatives. ... -
Participation in and provision of public goods: Does granularity matter?
We use public goods games to experimentally investigate the effect of granularity (i.e., the degree of divisibility of the space of feasible contribution options) on participation (whether individuals contribute or not to ... -
Participation, cooperatives and performance: an analysis of Spanish manufacturing firms
This paper attempts to analyze the effects that shopfloor participation has on firm performance and examine if cooperatives show better results than capitalist firms. Moreover, it tries to study if the impact of participation ... -
La "pequeña" gran propiedad del valle del Ebro ante la coyuntura: la gestión patrimonial de los marqueses de San Adrián durante el siglo XIX
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México), Unidad Iztapalapa, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2006) Artículo / ArtikuluaA partir del empleo de contabilidades privadas, este artículo plantea un estudio de caso que permite entender mejor las pautas de gestión de la gran propiedad de alcance regional durante el siglo XIX. Se examina la evolución ... -
Perceived performance effects of ICT in manufacturing SMEs
Purpose. We aim to investigate whether ICT resources, including investment and use of specific types of ICT as well as innovative work practices, have a positive impact on several dimensions of firm performance, taking ... -
Performance appraisal: dimensions and determinants
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures ...