The present paper considers the five factors proposed by Fama and French (1992, 2015), plus the factor proposed by Carhartt (1997): market premium, size, book-to-market ratio, profitabil- ity, investment, and momentum. The ...

This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on “Income Ethnical Segregation” by constructing an index that analyses US Census Data from 1990 until 2010. Following the groundwork of the “SSI” the results can be considered ...

Although school bullying has enormous health, social, and economic consequences that last throughout the entire human life, most bullying- prevention programs are ineffective partially because detecting bullies and their ...

Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are considered to be an appealing approach that is nowadays frequently used among researchers in many fields. No exception is their application in the field of environmental valuation, ...

The Spanish antitrust authorities charged car makers with information sharing and collusion in the Spanish market in the period 2006 - 2013. Using data on car prices for models sold in a set of European countries, in the ...

Ever since the 2008 global financial crises, both scholars and practitioners have argued that the interconnectivity of financial and banking networks is a key determinant of global systemic risk. Employing a simple diffusion ...

Since interaction between people exists at all levels of human activity, understanding how the patterns of interactions shape behavior and performance of network members is a key question across social sciences. This ...

This study addresses the empirical relationship between job tasks and employment share changes in Spain for the period 1997-2019. To do so, we use the novel European representative data on skills/tasks ESCO. Overall, we ...

The aim of this study is to measure opportunity bias in Spain. This purpose requires to analyse current outcomes as a function of opportunities, and how the latter affect the first. Opportunities are defined in terms of ...

Space debris is an ever escalating problem that is increasing the orbital scarcity and threatening its sustainability. In this document, we present a model for the market of satellite services where firms’ activity imposes ...