Bullying is a widespread problem throughout the world that affects one in three students and whose consequences can last in the long term. The main objective of this research is to study the causal relationship between bullying and academic performance on 15-year-old students in Spain. The databases used come from the external evaluation of the…
This paper formulates and analyzes a dynamic game between two trading regions that face a transboundary pollution problem. We study how the distribution of firms and trade costs affect the optimal emission decision of governments and how the resulting environmental policy would alter the allocation of the industry between both countries. The underlying microeconomic behaviour…
En este seminario se va a tratar un tema de actualidad, el aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales y sus efectos sobre el desarrollo económico. Para ello se analiza un sector de gran trascendencia en la historia económica española: la explotación de los abundantes y variados recursos de su subsuelo en los siglos XIX y XX….
In this paper, I build a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the U.S. economy to study the macroeconomic effects of alternative fiscal consolidation strategies in a context where the private sector is heavily indebted. Fiscal consolidation is defined as a permanent reduction of the public debt-to-GDP ratio by means of government spending cuts or…
Project management is an important body of knowledge and practices that comprises the planning, organization and control of resources to achieve one or more pre-determined objectives. In this presentation, we introduce ProjectManagement, a new R package that provides the necessary tools to manage projects in a broad sense, and illustrate its use by examples. We…
Multivariate observations referring to parts of a whole, so-called compositions or compositional data in statistics, are common across varied scientific fields. This is for example the case when dealing with chemical concentrations, food nutritional contents, election vote shares, investment portfolios, time-use and behavioural patterns, relative abundances, amongst others. Their distinctive feature is that there is…
Abstract: This paper examines the role of LTC benefits on the use of primary and secondary care by exploring a detailed administrative database in Spain. We estimate the causal effect of receiving LTC benefits by exploiting exogenous variation in the leniency of the examiners who assess the claimants’ LTC needs. We find that a monthly LTC…
As recent studies have shown, the way that managers are educated and selected to top management positions is a complex phenomenon with variations both over time and in different national contexts. New findings show that the transference of American ideas for management education was not linear, that the post-war international scene was not a tabula…
El descenso de la mortalidad se convirtió en uno de los elementos clave que hizo posible el proceso de modernización demográfica que experimentaron las poblaciones europeo- occidentales. El debate sobre las causas que estuvieron detrás del mismo se ha convertido en una de las cuestiones historiográficas que más polémica ha suscitado en las últimas décadas….
Este trabajo trata de determinar la conveniencia en el cambio de tecnología para la determinación de una enfermedad gastrointestinal. La determinación de la bacteria o virus que ataca al organismo puede ser determinante en las primeras horas, evitando posibles infecciones graves e incluso sepsis. Los dos procedimientos comparados son: (i) técnicas de cultivo estándar, utilizado…
