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On firm-level, industry-level, and aggregate employment fluctuations
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 ... -
On freedom of choice, ambiguity, and the preference for easy choices
This paper is devoted to the study of opportunity set comparisons when the characteristics of the options within the sets in question may be ambiguous. We assume that agents display a preference for freedom of choice, but ... -
On procedural freedom of choice
Numerous works in the last decade have analyzed the question of how to compare opportunity sets as a way to measure and evaluate individual freedom of choice. This paper defends that, in many contexts, external procedural ... -
On staggered prices and optimal inflation
This paper computes the steady-state optimal rate of inflation assuming two different sticky-price specifications, Calvo (1983) and Taylor (1980), in a model with monopolistic competition. The optimal rate of inflation ... -
On the equivalence of the two existing extensions of the leximax criterion to the infinite case
Using a common framework, we consider the two existing extensions of the leximax criterion to infinite environments (Arlegi et al. (2005) and Ballester and De Miguel (2003), and show that, though the respective definitions ... -
On the insurance function of fiscal policy in a monetary union
In this paper we first review the available literature on the degree of insurance against shocks, provided by the central budget in the federal systems already existing. Next, we discuss the main points raised on the debate ... -
The other halves of fascist Italy: income inequality from dynamic social tables, 1900-1950
This paper documents new, yearly estimates of overall income inequality for Italy, from the first industrial 'take-off' to the eve of the ‘Economic Miracle’, contributing both to the comparative literature on the evolution ... -
Participation, cooperatives and performance: an analysis of Spanish manufacturing firms
This paper attempts to analyze the effects that shopfloor participation has on firm performance and examine if cooperatives show better results than capitalist firms. Moreover, it tries to study if the impact of participation ... -
Performance appraisal: dimensions and determinants
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures ... -
A pilot inquiry on incentives and intrinsic motivation in health care: the motivational capital explained by doctors
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 ... -
A portfolio-choice model to analyze the recent gross capital flows between Canada and the US
We calibrate a two-country New Keynesian model with endogenous portfolio choice and valuation effects to discuss the determinants of the increase in Canadian Net Foreign Assets with the US observed after 2012. Furthermore, ... -
The post-covid inflation episode
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 ... -
The process of wage adjustment: an analysis using establishment-level data
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 ... -
Producción y esfuerzo pesquero de la flota de cerco del Cántabrico en la pesquería de la anchoa
Partiendo de datos de sección cruzada para los años 1976 y 1995 se estima una función de producción translog con estructura separable para la flota de cerco el Cantábrico que faena en la pesquería de la anchoa de la ... -
Profit sharing, interconnected autonomous teams, and employee productivity
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 profitable strategy in the pelota betting market
In pelota matches, games with two mutually exclusive and exhaustive outcomes, bets on the winner are made between viewers through a middleman who receives 16% of the finally paid amount. In this paper after the description ... -
Provincial health inequalities in Spain since 1860
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 ... -
Public capital, regional productivity and spatial spillovers
This paper examines the impact of infrastructure on productivity in the various regions of Spain. Using the duality approach and panel data, we estimate the regional cost functions for the three main sectors of the economy ... -
Quantifying repressive acts: explanation and challenges of the documentary archive of historical memory in Navarre
This document presents the historiographical and methodological foundations of the database of the Documentary Archive of Historical Memory in Navarre, which was developed in the Public University of Navarre following a ... -
Rank dependent expected utility in the pelota betting system: an experiment
We theoretically and experimentally study a zero sum betting market: the pelota betting system, but with commonly known objective probabilities and without commissions. We know that risk-averse expected utility maximizers ...