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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 ... -
Mindfulness: guía práctica para educadores
(2016-05-02)[ES] Esta guía está dirigida a docentes del ámbito de la educación tanto formal como no formal que se apunten a un curso de mindfulness para liberar su estrés, ansiedad… y poder llevar así una vida más sana. No obstante, ... -
Mindfulness: guía práctica para educadores
(2016-04-01)[ES]Esta guía está dirigida a docentes del ámbito de la educación tanto formal como no formal que se apunten a un curso de mindfulness para liberar su estrés, ansiedad… y poder llevar así una vida más sana. No obstante, ... -
Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria
(2011)We investigate a society with two official languages: A, shared by all individuals and B, spoken by a bilingual mirority. Thus, it is only B that needs t increase its population share, and therefore, only the language ... -
Mixed Duopoly, Merger and Multiproduct Firms
(2000-07)The literature on mergers has extensively analyzed the decision to merge by private firms but it has not considered the decision to merge by private and public firms. We assume that when a private firm and a public firm ... -
Mixed Oligopoly and Environmental Policy
(2001-02)The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider the role that the environmental policy of the government plays on the decision whether to privatize public firms. Assuming that there are one public firm and n private ... -
Un Modelo Lineal Generalizado Semiparametrico para Analisis de Duracion con Censura
(2000-07)[EN] Aitkin and Clayton (1980) proposed to analyze duration models using generalized linear models. In this work we extend that methodology allowing for some nonspecified covariable effect. The model we propose is a ...