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Optimal Environmental Taxation When Goods and Contamination are Durable
(1999-11)[EN] This paper analyzes the effects of optimal taxation on a polluting monopolist who produces a durable good and cannot precommit to future sale prices. The government establishes the taxes that maximize social welfare, ... -
Optimal fiscal policy in a multisector model with minimum expenditure requirements
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-03)This paper investigates optimal fiscal policy in a static multisector model. A Ramsey type planner chooses tax rates on each good type as well as spending levels on each good type subject to an exogenous total expenditure ... -
Optimal Fiscal Policy with Rationing in the Labor Market
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-07)This paper characterizes the optimal fiscal policy when it is assumed that there exists a minimum wage below which no worker can be hired. The rigidity due to the minimum wage legislation can lead to equilibria in which ... -
Optimal Minimum Wage in a Competitive Economy: an Alternative Modelling Approach
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)This paper analyzes whether a minimum wage can be an optimal redistribution policy when distorting taxes and lump-sum transfers are also available in a competitive economy. We build a static general equilibrium model with ... -
Optimal Monetary Policy with Asymmetric Preferences for Output
(2012-11-15)Using a model of an optimizing monetary authority which has preferences that weigh inflation and unemployment, Ruge-Murcia (2003, 2004) finds empirical evidence that the authority has asymmetric preferences for ... -
Optimal overall emissions taxation in durable goods oligopoly
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)We analyze optimal second-best emission taxes in a durable good industry under imperfect competition. The analysis is performed for three different types of emissions and for situations where the good is rented, sold or ... -
Optimización de una metodología de extracción de hidrocarburos cuticulares (CHCs) en mosca, Drosophila melanogaster.
(2017-05-01)Los hidrocarburos cuticulares son compuestos que previenen la desecación de los insectos y sirven simultaneamente como señales químicas en sus interacciones sociales. Los CHCs de la mosca Drosophila melanogaster han sido ... -
Option-Implied Preferences Adjustments and Risk-Neutral Density Forecasts
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-06)The main objective of this paper is to analyse the value of information contained in prices of options on the IBEX 35 index at the Spanish Stock Exchange Market. The forward looking information is extracted using implied ... -
Oracles for audio chord estimation
(2012)This paper explores how audio chord estimation could improve if information about chord boundaries or beat onsets is revealed by an oracle. Chord estimation at the frame level is compared with three simulations, each using ... -
Output dynamics in an endogenous growth model
(2003-07)The aim of this paper is to analyze whether endogenous growth RBC models are consistent with two stylized facts about U.S. output dynamics. First, GNP growth is positively correlated in the short run and it has a weak ... -
Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy
(2011)This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a ... -
Partial ownership of local firms and zoning of neighboring towns
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2019-03-27)This paper investigates zoning in two neighboring towns in which firms are owned by investors that reside in the two towns. We find that local regulators use zoning strategically depending on the weight of local profits ... -
Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations
(Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2016-06)We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complement or substitute goods and that compete with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants of the ... -
Perpaus adberbialen agerpena, maiztasuna eta kokapena EPEC‐DEP corpusean
(2015-02-26)In this report we present the results obtained analysing the use, frequency of use and the position of adverbial clauses. This analysis has been performed in the Basque Dependency Treebank (BDT). We also have used the ... -
Personal identity. A theoretical and experimental analysis
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009)This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in altruism. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social ... -
PIM-SM extension for Source-Specific Multicast through non multicast networks
(2015-10-08)Deployment of multicast in the open Internet is stagnated, mainly as a result of service provider policies and network limitations. To skip the lack of multicast connectivity between receivers and networks that carry traffic ... -
Policy Coordination in an Oligopolistic Housing Market
(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 ... -
Political Institutions, Technology and Growth: a dynamic panel approach
(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 ... -
Population age structure and private consumption in Spain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)In this paper we study the effect of population age distribution upon private consumption expenditure in Spain from 1964 to 1997 using aggregate data. We obtain four main results. First, changes in the population pyramid ... -
Predicting Betas: Two new methods
(2009)Betas play a central role in modern finance. The estimation of betas from historical data and their extrapolation into the future is of considerable practical interest. We propose two new methods: the first is a direct ...