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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Data revisions in the estimation of DSGE models
(2011)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Revisions of US macroeconomic data are not white-noise. They are persistent, correlated with real-time data, and with high variability (around 80% of volatility observed in US real-time data). Their business cycle effects ...
Strategy-proof location of public facilities
(2015)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Agents frequently have different opinions on where to locate a public facility. While some agents consider the facility a good and prefer to have it nearby, others dislike it and would like to see it built far away from ...
The great moderation of inflation: a structural analysis of recent U.S. monetary business cycles
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
U.S. inflation has experienced a great moderation in the last two decades. This paper examines the factors behind this and other stylized facts, such as the weaker correlation of inflation and nominal interest rate (Gibson ...
Incentives beyond the money: identity and motivational capital in public organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organisation) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organisation can ...