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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 ...
Trade-offs in health investments: HIV, malaria and malnutrition
(2017)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
While life expectancy has increased worldwide during the last decades, the developing
world is still losing millions of lives each year due to three pervasive illnesses: Malaria,
HIV and Chronic Malnutrition. This work ...
Incentives when altruism is impure: the case of blood and living organ donations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The decision to donate blood and living organs is considered voluntary and altruistic. However, the shortage of donors has opened an interesting debate in recent years, considering offering economic incentives to donors. ...
A pilot inquiry on incentives and intrinsic motivation in health care: the motivational capital explained by doctors
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Where the contracts are incomplete, the resulting co-ordination problems may be attenuated if workers are intrinsically motivated to do the work. It is established by theoretical and empirical literature that workers within ...
Identity, incentives and motivational capital in public organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organization) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the upstream responsibility rule
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Attitudes towards blood and living organ donations
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We model the decision of whether or not to become a blood/living organ donor. The expected utility for becoming a donor is a function of the degree of altruism, the consumption of goods, the costs of donation, the very ...
Motivational capital and incentives in health care organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...
Incentives to give up resource extraction and avoid the tragedy of the commons
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper develops a general model of common resource extraction where we introduce payments for environmental services to encourage resource users to give up extraction. The goal is to reach a balance between resource ...
Short run and long run effects of banking in a New Keynesian model
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper introduces both endogenous capital accumulation and deposit-in-advance requirements for investment in the banking model of Goodfriend and McCallum (2007). Impulse response functions from technology and monetary ...