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Analysing energy poverty in Spain
(2019)
In this thesis we study energy poverty in Spain both at the level of concept and reality, using the Spanish family budgets survey for the year 2010. First we introduce the phenomenon of energy poverty analysing lightly its ...
An estimation of Armington elasticities at the EU-28 level
(2019)
The Armington substitution elasticity is a key parameter for trade-policy analysis. The purpose of this study then is no other than to re-estimate NEST 11 Armington elasticities making use of the upgraded versions of WIOD ...
Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of government debt in the Euro Area
(2020)
This paper empirically analyzes fiscal policy sustainability and the cyclicality in 19 Euro Area countries using data on government debt, primary deficit and the output gap. We investigate this over quarterly intervals, ...
The sensitivity of estimated DSGE models to alternative data vintages
(2020)
This paper considers the estimation of a structural DSGE model with three alternative macroeconomic data vintages corresponding to the first-release (real-time data), the third-release data, and the highly revised data to ...
Health in cities: neighborhood effects and scioeconomic determinants in the Spanish case
(2020)
The impact of place on individual outcomes, like health, presents many causal challenges that have disputed treatments in the literature. A 2011 study by Bilger Carrieri addresses them via instrumentation, to surprising ...
The effect of a newborn on the household labour supply
(2020)
This master’s thesis investigates the effect of a newborn on household members’ labour market status. With this goal in mind, we use data from the Spanish Household Budget Survey and causal inference methods to estimate ...
The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
(2019)
On June 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. This unexpected result provides us with the opportunity to study the impact of the vote on the economy. We replicate the work done by Born et al. (2017) ...
Public and private interest politics
(2019)
This paper analyses the factors that influence politicians to enter politics. The objective of the project is to examine if the main motivation of politicians to enter politics is public interest or private interest. In ...
The impact of COVID-19 confinement in the Euro Area: a Bayesian DSGE approach
(2020)
With the aim of providing a preliminary forecast of the economic repercussion of the recent confinement, we estimate a canonical medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) for the Euro Area economy, ...
Earnings-based vs assets-based borrowing constraints and their impact on output
(2020)
We present an overlapping generations model in order to assess the quantitative effects of financial frictions on output depending on the type of loan contract. Financial frictions are one of the major obstacles of the ...