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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The diffusion of pay for performance across occupations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analysed. Our results show that there are significant differences ...
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 ...
Non-elective cesarean sections in public hospitals: hospital capacity constraints and doctor´s incentives
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Using administrative records of births from the Perinatal Surveillance System of the Social Security System (ESSALUD) in Peru, we test whether high admissions of pregnant women affected unplanned cesarean section rates in ...
Enrolling the self-employed in mandatory health insurance in Colombia: are we missing other factors?
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We assess the impact that Colombia’s 1993 health sector reform had on the enrollment of self-employed workers in mandatory social health insurance scheme, with a especial focus on the independent contractors. This group ...
Firm entry under financial frictions
(2011)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Introducing both endogenous firm entry and a requirement for external finance in a general-equilibrium model leads to three main results. First, the financial constraint has contractionary effects on both equity investment ...