Seminario 23/08 – Santiago Sánchez Pagés (King’s College London) – Braggart or humble? The effect of self-reports on performance
An extensive literature has studied both in the field and in the lab the effects on performance of providing absolute and relative verifiable feedback, finding mixed results. Another branch of the literature has studied the effects of non-verifiable centrally-provided feedback, also with mixed results. But, to the best of our knowledge, no study has explored…
Seminario 23/07 – Íñigo Iturbe Ormaetxe (Universidad de Alicante) – Motivated beliefs about stock returns
Systematic biases in return expectations may distort stock prices and lead to inefficient capital allocation. In this paper, we report experimental evidence that buying a stock induces optimistically biased expectations when its price drops below the purchase price. We find this effect in a controlled laboratory experiment as well as in a six-week-long online experiment…
Seminario 23/06 – Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) – The introduction of the British debit card at the dawn of the digital economy, 1980s-1990s
Abstract Debit card payments are the cornerstone of the cashless economy. They exemplify the transfer of monetary balances, enabling on-the-spot transactions through online, real-time, electronic networks. While debit cards were an aspiration in the 1960s, it was during the mid-1970s that the first significant attempts were made to make these aspirations a reality in the…
Seminario 23/05 – Vicente Calabuig (U. de Valencia) – Elites, Inequality and the Emergence and Erosion of Progressive Taxation
Abstract This paper theoretically explores the role of elites in the rise of progressive taxation in Western countries at the beginning of the XXth century and in its posterior erosion in the last four decades. We focus on its interaction with the level of inequality between the elite and the citizens. We analyse a stylized…
Seminario 23/04 – Víctor Luque (U. Almería) -Cadenas migratorias en la configuración de las comunidades mineras en la España del s. XIX: el caso de Linares
Resumen A lo largo del siglo XIX se produjo en el ´ámbito europeo un considerable aumento de las migraciones exteriores e interiores. Tradicionalmente la historiografía ha considerado que en España los movimientos migratorios permanentes, tanto internos como externos, durante la mayor parte del siglo XIX fueron relativamente débiles en comparación con las de otros países…
Seminario 23/03 – Parinya Nakpathom (University of Burapha) -Determinants Influencing Purchasing Behavior of Korean Cosmetic Products.
Abstract This study seeks to explore the main factors influencing Thai female consumers purchasing behavior and identify the relationship between consumer behavior and sales objectives of Korean Cosmetic brands I. The data was collected in the form of an online questionnaire which was divided into 5 subsections. This was followed by 1) Demographic data 2)…
Seminario 23/02: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche (European Commission) – Measuring bilateral trade in terms of value added
The increase in the fragmentation of production across countries and the subsequent growth in the trade of intermediate products have raised concerns about the suitability of conventional trade statistics to understand the economic consequences of trade. Several authors have attempted to disentangle value added content of trade. This technical report proposes a novel framework that…
Seminario 23/01: Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): Sobre la aproximación de soluciones de juegos cooperativos
El cómputo exacto de soluciones de juegos cooperativos presenta una alta complejidad computacional cuando el número de jugadores involucrados es lo suficientemente grande. En este sentido, las metodologías de muestreo se presentan como alternativa para su aproximación en general. En esta charla revisaremos algunas de las propuestas en la literatura basadas en muestreo, así como…
Seminario 22/18: Manuel Pérez García (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) – Global Trade in Imperial China and Spain: GECEM Project Database and Big Data Mining (1680-1840)
Abstract Within the framework of the current global crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic and the hegemonic role of China in the world economy, the revision of China’s socioeconomic and political transformation from imperial Qing dynasty until the present day is paramount. This presentation focuses on a crucial period in the history of China, the…
