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Life Expectancy, Schooling Time and Endogenous Growth
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)I analyze how changes in life expectancy affect retirement age, education time, and growth rates of economies. I set up a continuous time, overlapping generations model of endogenous growth with externalities in human ... -
Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be ... -
Long Term Dynamics in CO2 Allowance Prices and Carbon Capture Investments
(2007-05)In this paper we analyse the behaviour of the EU market for CO2 emission allowances; specifically, we focus on the contracts maturing in the Kyoto Protocol's second period of application (2008 to 2012). We calibrate the ... -
Long-Term Growth and Persistence with Endogenous Depreciation: Theory and Evidence
(Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2013)Previous research has shown a strong positive correlation between short-term persistence and long-term output growth as well as between depreciation rates and long-term output growth. This evidence, therefore, contradicts ... -
Lowndes and Locke on the value of money
(2007)In this paper I analyze the monetary theories underlying the arguments that Locke and Lowndes directed against each other during their discussions around the Great Recoinage of 1696. My primary place of interest is the ... -
Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields: An Experiment
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2013-12)We investigate a version of the classic Colonel Blotto game in which individual battles may have different values. Two players allocate a fixed budget across battlefields and each battlefield is won by the player who ... -
Majorities with a quorum
(2010-01)Based on a general model of "quaternary" voting rule, sensitive to voters' choices between four different options (abstaining, voting "yes", voting "no" and staying home), we systematically study different types of majority ... -
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Manual de usuario del portal de Guías Clínicas Informatizadas Aide Portal
(2013)En los últimos años, las Guías Clínicas basadas en la revisión sistemática de la evidencia científica se han convertido en un vehículo esencial para la transferencia efectiva del conocimiento médico a la atención primaria. ... -
Market Power in the Spanish Electricity Auction
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)We use hourly bid data from the Spanish day-ahead electricity auction to obtain a lower bound measure of generators' market power. Our method is not based on cost estimates but rather on the different behavior of strategic ... -
Markov Switching Risk Premium and the term structure of interest rates. Empirical evidence from US post-war interest rates
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-04)This paper considers the basic present value model of interest rates under rational expectations with two additional features. First, following McCallum (1994), the model assumes a policy reaction function where changes ... -
Marx´ Critique of the Currency Principle
(2009)The goal of this paper is to rescue the critique of Marx of the Currency Principle from its current oblivion. The ideas of Marx are extraordinarily interesting both from a theoretical and from a practical standpoint, as ... -
Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green Versus Scitovsky on Profit and Utility Maximization
(2005)I contrast the theoretical foundation of profit maximization of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green’s “Microeconomics” against that provided by Scitovsky in a paper of 1943. Whereas Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green try to show ... -
MATEDA: A suite of EDA programs in Matlab
(2009)This paper describes MATEDA-2.0, a suite of programs in Matlab for estimation of distribution algorithms. The package allows the optimization of single and multi-objective problems with estimation of distribution algorithms ... -
Measuring the Effect of the Real Estate Bubble: a House Price Index for Bilbao
(2011-11)A spatio-temporal model is proposed aimed at producing an index of housing prices. A hedonic model with geographically varying coefficients is coupled with a non parametric estimation of the trend, whence a price index is derived. -
Mergers in Durable Goods Industries
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)This paper is concerned with the study of durability as an aspect of competition and market structure that contributes to determining the incentives for mergers. We find that relative to the incentives in industries that ... -
Merging to License: Internal vs. External Patentee
(2003-01)In this paper, we endogenize the decision of a research laboratory that owns a patented process innovation on whether to remain independent as an external patentee or to merge with a manufacturing firm, becoming an internal ... -
Methods for Measuring Aggregate Costs of Conflict
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-09)This paper reviews the methods for measuring the economic cost of conflict. Estimating the economic costs of conflict requires a counterfactual calculation, which makes this a very difficult task. Social researchers have ... -
Metodología analítica para el control de calidad en ambientadores higiénicos basados en la cuantificación de sus componentes mediante cromatografía de gases acoplada a espectrometría de masas (GC/MS).
(2016-04-08)Increasingly, the quality control on production processes is becoming imperative in industry. This control includes the analysis of raw materials and their suppliers. In the hygiene products industry, this control is vital ... -
El método de reducción en Teoría de la Computabilidad
(2010)La Teoría de la Computabilidad es una disciplina encuadrada en la Informática Teórica que tiene como objetivo establecer los límites lógicos que presentan los sistemas informáticos a la hora de resolver problemas mediante ...