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Business dynamism and economic growth: U.S. regional evidence
(2016)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We document empirical evidence on the determinants of U.S. regional growth over the last 25 years, with a special attention to the role of entrepreneurial activity or `business dynamism'. The main data source is the Business ...
Cost effectiveness analysis of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using slings
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Objective. To determine the cost-utility and cost-effectiveness of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using suburethral slings compared with therapeutic abstention. Study Design. An economic analysis was ...
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 ...
Incentives beyond the money and motivational capital in health care organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores the conditions that characterize the optimality for a principal (health manager) to undertake investments to motivate agents (doctors). In the model, doctors are intrinsically motivated and can have ...
Does globalization promote civil war? An empirical research
(2015)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between globalization and in-trastate conflict in a sample of 160 countries over the period 1970-2009. To that end, we use a measure of globalization that distinguishes ...
Fiscal decentralization and internal conflict: an empirical investigation
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and internal conflict in 77 countries during the period 1972-2000. The results show that the devolution of scal power to subnational tiers of government ...
On firm-level, industry-level, and aggregate employment fluctuations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
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 ...
Efectos de la reducción de la jornada laboral en un modelo con dos sectores
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
En tiempos de crisis económicas, con altas tasas de paro, no debemos desconsiderar ninguna política susceptible de crear empleo. La reducción de la jornada laboral es una de ellas. La aplicación de cualquier política puede ...
Negative externalities in cropping decisions: private versus common land
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper analyzes to what extent the definition of property rights affects cropping decisions when these decisions generate negative externalities. To that end, we implement an experimental study where agents make cropping ...
Lorenz and lexicographic maximal allocations for bankruptcy problems
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper investigates the use of egalitarian criteria to select allocations in bankruptcy problems. In our work, we characterize the sets of Lorenz maximal elements for these problems. We show that the allocation selected ...