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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 ...
Business cycle and monetary policy analysis with market rigidities and financial frictions
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We describe a dynamic macroeconomic model that incorporates firm-level borrowing constraints, competitive CES loan production, and rigidities on both setting prices and wages. The external finance premium (interest-rate ...
Reflexiones sobre la sanidad pública en España en el horizonte de 2020
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Este trabajo pretende desarrollar una visión para el Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) en la perspectiva del año 2020. Partiendo de una evaluación de la situación actual del sistema sanitario y a la luz de los principios que ...
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. ...
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. ...
Comparing the psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L between mental and somatic chronic patients populations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The validity and reliability of the EQ-5D-5L in comparison with the standard 3L has been tested through the analysis of psychometric properties making use of different samples of patients. However, it is likely that the ...
The process of wage adjustment: an analysis using establishment-level data
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
In this article, we use data from Spanish manufacturing plants to analyze the determinants of the importance attributed to several criteria when wages are adjusted. More specifically, the criteria we take into account in ...
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 ...
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 ...