Seminario 24/13 – Inga Helinad (University of Trondheim, NTNU): Common ownership and competition: Evidence from ultimate owners of private and public firms

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Abstract Firms under common ownership have incentives to internalize the consequences of their behavior on each other, potentially resulting in less competition. In this paper, I revisit the question of whether firms that have owners in common with their rivals compete less. I exploit unique data from Norway to document the economy-wide extent of common…

Seminario 24/12 – Javier de la Plaza Tierno y Melanie Caballero Pastor (MTP): Accesibilidad digital, la eterna olvidada

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En esta charla, Javier de la Plaza, responsable del área de UX&Accesibilidad de MTP, hablará de la importancia de que las aplicaciones web y app sean accesibles, la normativa vigente y cómo MTP trabaja con sus clientes para conseguirlo. Posteriormente Melanie Caballero, consultora especializada en accesibilidad digital, compartirá cómo se evalúa si una web es…

Seminario 24/11 – Juan Antonio Rubio Mondéjar (U. de Granada): El poder corporativo en España, 1920-2020

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Resumen: La investigación que se presenta pretende arrojar luz sobre la evolución del poder empresarial español en el último siglo. Para lograrlo, se aplica la metodología del análisis de redes sociales al estudio de las relaciones mediante consejeros comunes entre las grandes empresas del país, en una serie de cortes temporales que comienzan en 1920…

Seminario 24/10 – Manuel Llorca-Jaña (U. Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile): Más allá del PIB per cápita: Evolución de los niveles de vida en Chile desde la independencia

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Recientemente, para analizar los niveles de vida de un país, se ha consolidado la noción de que se debe incluir un amplio abanico de indicadores de bienestar, incluyendo el PIB per cápita, pero yendo mucho más allá del mismo. Este trabajo resume la evolución de los indicadores de bienestar más populares, sujeto a tener series…

Seminario 24/09 – Santiago Budría (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija): Energy Poverty among Immigrants: Does Host Language Proficiency Matter?

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This study uses the 2007-2020 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to estimate the impact of English language proficiency on energy poverty among immigrants. The paper relies on six different energy poverty measures reflecting both objective (expenditure-based) and subjective (self-assessed) approaches and includes a multidimensional measure of energy poverty….

Seminario 24/08 – Anjeza Bekolli (Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania): Distribution of Profits in Agricultural Supply Chains: A Cooperative Game Theory Approach

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In this study, our focus is on decentralized agricultural supply chains, where multiple non-competing distributors serve the demand of their respective markets. These distributors procure a single product from a farmer through an agricultural cooperative within a specific timeframe. Agents can coordinate their actions to maximize profits, employing cooperative game theory to analyze cooperation among…

Seminario 24/07 – Lei Shi (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): Reconfiguration of China’s occupational structure during early industrialization, 1900-1937

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The debate on the ‘Great Divergence’ paid little attention to changes in China’s occupational structure. According to previous research, the agricultural sector accounted for around 80 per cent of the labour force until the Reform and Opening-Up from 1980s, and the share of modern industries in the Chinese economy was trivial. However, the first and…

Seminario 24/06 – Carlos Victoria: What drives fiscal partisanship? Evidence from Spanish local elections

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The phenomenon of partisanship in fiscal policy has been a long-lasting topic in the economic literature, from the earlier cross-country studies to more recent empirical analyses at the microeconomic level. However, less is known about the mechanisms that can exacerbate or mitigate this partisan behavior. Using a regression-discontinuity design and a rich electoral and budgetary…

Seminario 24/05 – Adelaida Lillo (Universidad de Alicante): Does reshoring generate employment? A study on services reshoring and its intra- and inter-sectoral components

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The aim of this paper is to deepen the analysis of services reshoring in the Spanish services sector, both as a whole and for its constituent elements, examining both intra- and inter-sectoral components. Likewise, it analyzes the impact of this strategy on employment in the services sector, also differentiating between broad reshoring, intra-sectoral reshoring and…

Seminario 24/02 – Adrián Nerja (Universidad de Alicante): How does environmental awareness for HSR influence the necessity for short-haul flight bans?

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This paper applies a model in which a local market served by high-speed rail (HSR) and an airline is connected with an international market serving two different airlines. Our aim is to assess the necessity for a ban on short-haul flights from an economic policy standpoint and to investigate the potential for market self-regulation to…