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The post-covid inflation episode
(2023)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaia,
The recent inflation episode has been examined in an estimated NK-DSGE model with sticky wages and unemployement. The rise of US price inflation resulted from a combination of a sudden rise in 2020, the expansionary monetary ...
A journey in the history of sovereign defaults on domestic law public debt - sovereign histories
(2021)
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This document contains our collection of ‘sovereign histories’ for the 74 domestic-law default episodes that we include in our database. Sovereign histories are meant to complement our database and the associated paper, ...
Addressing oil spills and agricultural productivity. Evidence of pollution in Nigeria
(2021)
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This paper examines how the pollution generated by oil operations in Nigeria can affect agricultural total factor productivity. I analyze oil spills, which are the main ecological disaster in Nigeria and lead to major ...
Spatial inequality, civil conflict and cells: a dynamic spatial probit approach
(2021)
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This study examines the link between spatial income inequality and civil conflict in Africa. To that end we extend traditional empirical models of conflict to account for both endogenous and exogenous spatial interaction ...
Profit sharing, interconnected autonomous teams, and employee productivity
(2021)
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Interconnected autonomous teams (IAT) reflect a human resources policy of organizing employees into a network of autonomous teams and allowing individuals to work on more than one of those teams. This paper studies how ...
A journey in the history of sovereign defaults on domestic law public debt
(2021)
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We introduce a novel database on sovereign defaults that involve public debt instruments governed by domestic law. By systematically reviewing a large number of sources, we identify 132 default and restructuring events of ...
Why are labor markets in Spain and Germany so different?
(2016)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The volatility of unemployment fluctuations has been about 3 times higher in Spain than in Germany over the recent business cycles (1996-2013). In contrast, fluctuations of the rate of wage inflation were significantly ...
Provincial health inequalities in Spain since 1860
(2021)
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Using annual mortality rates at the provincial level for men and women, we construct a Gini index to estimate changes in regional health inequalities since 1860 in Spain. We find a long steady decline in health inequality ...
A lesson from history? The 1918 influenza pandemic and the rise of Italian fascism: a cross-city quantitative and historical text qualitative analysis
(2021)
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Objectives: Evidence linking past experiences of worsening health and support for radical political views has generated concerns about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 ...
Wars, depression, and fascism: income inequality in Italy, 1900-1950
(2021)
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This paper documents new yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy
from 1900 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables, we obtain the first
comprehensive assessment of all major components of ...