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Perceived performance effects of ICT in manufacturing SMEs
(Emerald, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Purpose. We aim to investigate whether ICT resources, including investment and use of specific types of ICT as well as innovative work practices, have a positive impact on several dimensions of firm performance, taking ...
The determinants of pay settlements. The influence of the national context
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
This article studies the influence of national context and collective bargaining on the factors taken into account when adjusting wages. Using data from Spanish and British manufacturing establishments, we examine the ...
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. ...
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. ...
Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences: an axiomatic analysis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
In this paper, we axiomatically study how to measure the similarity of preferences in a group of individuals. For simplicity, we refer to this as the cohesiveness. First, we provide axioms that characterize a family of ...
Non-anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(Elsevier, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a new ...
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 ...