Seminario 23/12 – José Manuel Cordero (Universidad de Extremadura): La consideración del contexto al analizar cambios en la productividad con modelos no paramétricos

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Las variables de contexto o ambientales suelen desempeñar un papel importante en la mayoría de los procesos productivos, condicionando en gran medida tanto la estimación de los niveles de eficiencia de las unidades evaluadas como posibles factores explicativos de las ineficiencias detectadas en la mayoría de los estudios empíricos. Sin embargo, cuando se analizan los…

Seminario 23/10 – Vanessa Guerrero (Universidad Carlos III) – On mathematical optimization approaches for constrained smoothing and feature selection in additive models.

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Abstract In an era when the decision-making process is often based on the analysis of complex and evolving data, it is crucial to have systems which allow us to incorporate human knowledge and provide valuable support to the decision maker. During this talk, statistical modelling and mathematical optimization paradigms merge to address the problems of,…

Seminario 23/02: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche (European Commission) – Measuring bilateral trade in terms of value added

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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 22/17: Germán López Buenache (Universidad de Murcia) Factor models for large and incomplete data sets with unknown group structure

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Most economic applications rely on a large number of time series, which typically have a remarkable clustering structure and they are available over different spans. To handle these databases, we combined the expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm outlined by Stock and Watson (JBES, 2002) and the estimation algorithm for large factor models with an unknown number of…

Seminario 22/15: Ismael Gálvez Iniesta (Universidad de las Islas Baleares) Being young in Spain and the Scars from Recessions

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We assess the unequal effects of the Great Recession on the labor market outcomes of different cohorts of young individuals and education groups in Spain. We provide empirical evidence that young workers in Spain suffer from a high unemployment rate because of a low job-finding rate and a high separation rate. We also document that…

Seminario 22/14. Paul De Grauwe (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) – Trust and monetary policy

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El eminente economista Paul De Grauwe, en la víspera del día de la ceremonia en la que tendrá lugar su investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Murcia, impartirá un seminario/conferencia dirigido a los estudiantes del programa de doctorado DEcIDE y, en general, a todos los estudiantes y profesores de la Facultad de…

Seminario 22/12. Darragh Flannery (University of Limerick)- School socio-economic context and student achievement in Ireland: An unconditional quantile regression analysis using PISA 2018 data

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The existence of a ‘multiplier’, ‘compositional’ or ‘social context effect’ is debated extensively in the literature on school effectiveness. Some researchers have posited that the relationship between social context and achievement is mediated by school, teacher or classroom factors, such as teacher expectations, quality of instruction, or adequacy of school resources. In this context, this…

Seminario 22/11: Magdalena Kapelko (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business) – Measuring Firms’ Dynamic Inefficiency Accounting for Corporate Social Responsibility in the US Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry

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Abstract This article proposes an innovative approach to evaluate firms’ inefficiency accounting for corporate social responsibility (CRS) activities of firms. In the first step, we estimate dynamic inefficiency for each input, marketable output, CSR output and investment using Data Envelopment Analysis. Dynamic inefficiency measure accounts for the confounding role of adjustment costs related with firms’…

Seminario 22/10: Maria Chiara Pagliarella (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio). Three-fold Fay-Herriot model for small area estimation

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This paper introduces a three-fold Fay-Herriot model with random effects at three hierarchical levels. Small area best linear unbiased predictors of linear indicators are derived from the new model and the corresponding mean squared errors are approximated and estimated analytically and by parametric bootstrap. The problem of influence analysis and model diagnostics is addressed by…

Seminario 22/08: Agustí Segarra Blasco (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Investigar y divulgar: ¿dos caras de la misma moneda?

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La investigación científica y la divulgación, esto es poner al alcance de un público más amplio son dos caras de una misma moneda, pero no es lo mismo. Entre los científicos y también entre los economistas encontramos a grandes investigadores que con el paso de los años también se han convertido en divulgadores muy populares…