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      Policy Coordination in an Oligopolistic Housing Market 

      Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel; Usategui Díaz de Otalora, José María ORCID (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-03)
      This paper analyzes the consequences of the interaction between two different levels of government (regulators) in the development of housing policy when their decisions determine the level of competition in the housing ...
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      Political Institutions, Technology and Growth: a dynamic panel approach 

      Zuazu Bermejo, Izaskun (Departamento Fundamentos del Ánálisis Económico I UPV/EHU, 2015-10)
      This paper investigates whether the effect of political institutions on sectoral economic performance is determined by the level of technological development of industries. Building on previous studies on the linkages among ...
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      Preferences, actions and voting rules 

      Artabe Echevarria, Alaitz ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2011-01-17)
      In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not ...
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      Preferences, actions and voting rules 

      Artabe Echevarria, Alaitz ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (Springer, 2012-03)
      In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not ...
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      Privatización de pensiones y provisión de garantías: una exploración del caso español 

      Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID (2003-07)
      Los sistemas de pensiones públicas de reparto con prestación definida a lo largo del mundo se están convirtiendo a planes de aportación definida capitalizados, donde los agentes eligen sus carteras de acciones y bonos. A ...
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      Privatization and environmental policy in a mixed oligopoly 

      Dong, Quan; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2019-12)
      This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We ...
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      Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID (2003-03)
      We analyze the consequences of consumers behavior concerning personal arbitrage in a spatial discrimination context where firms know the consumers distribution but cannot distinguish them by location. The firms' equilibrium ...
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      Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Navarro Prada, Noemí; Escobedo Martínez, Ramón (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-10)
      In this paper we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are f luent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of pro ficiency in the minority ...
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      Profit and Cost in "Modern" Post-Marxian Profit Theory: A Case Study from Varian's "Intermediate Microeconomics" 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2003-09)
      In this paper, I examine the treatment of competitive profit of professor Varian in his textbook on Microeconomics, as a representative of the “modern” post-Marxian view on competitive profit. I show how, on the one hand, ...
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      Profit as Cost versus Profit as Surplus over Cost: A Case Study on Varian's "Intermediate Microeconomics" 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (UPV/EHU. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I/Ekonomi Analisiaren Oinarriak I Saila, 2004-12)
      On the analysis of Varian’s textbook on Microeconomics, which I take to be a representative of the standard view, I argue that Varian provides two contrary notions of profit, namely, profit as surplus over cost and profit ...
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      Prosocial behavior and gender 

      Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-04-14)
      This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" ...
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      Quaternary dichotomous voting rules 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2010-01)
      In this paper we provide a general model of "quaternary" dichotomous voting rules (QVRs), namely, voting rules for making collective dichotomous decisions (to accept or reject a proposal), based on vote profiles in which ...
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      Quesnay and Leontief on Capital and Income 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2002-03)
      I analyze Quesnay's explanation of the "Tableau Economique" of 1766 in order to show that he made a clear distinction between capital and income. In holding this distinction, Quesnay rejected the nowadays currently accepted ...
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      Rationing Rules and Stable Coalition Structures 

      Gallo Fernández, Oihane; Iñarra García, María Elena ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2016-10-05)
      We consider a coalition formation model in which agents have the possibility of forming part of several coalitions but are limited to participate in only one of them. Coalitions of agents produce outputs to be distributed ...
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      Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2011)
      The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms’ location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining their ...
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      Replicator Dynamics and Evolutionary Stable Strategies in Heterogeneous Games 

      Rocha, André Barreira da Silva; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Zuazo Garín, Peio (2011-12)
      We generalise and extend the work of Iñarra and Laruelle (2011) by studying two person symmetric evolutionary games with two strategies, a heterogenous population with two possible types of individuals and incomplete ...
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      Royalty Licensing 

      San Martín Lizarralde, Marta ORCID; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (2009-09)
      A patent provides its holder the monopolist´s right to sell licenses that allow the use of new technology. Empirically, most of the patent licensing agreements that are observed include royalties, in particular per unit ...
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      Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio Has a Non-Monotonic Impact on Altruism 

      Brañas Garza, Pablo; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Neyse, Levent (PLoS ONE, 2013-05-10)
      Gene-culture co-evolution emphasizes the joint role of culture and genes for the emergence of altruistic and cooperative behaviors and behavioral genetics provides estimates of their relative importance. However, these ...
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      Should firms allow workers to participate in R&D investment? 

      Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (1999-10)
      [EN] This paper analyzes if the introduction of new technologies in unionized firms, should be chosen unilaterally by the firm or negotiated with the union. The results show that firms prefer to choose the level of R&D or ...
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      Should Owners of Firms Delegate Long-run Decisions? 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (1999-11)
      This paper analyzes whether owners of firms have incentives to delegate their long-run decisions to managers or not. The result arising from our analysis shows that owners do have incentives to keep their long-run decisions ...