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Consumer Expertise or Credit Risk? An empirical analysis of mortgage pricing
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)Loan mortgage interest rates are usually the result of a bank-customer negotiation process. Credit risk, consumer cross-buying potential, bundling, financial market competition and other features affecting the bargaining ... -
Consumption and portfolio rules whit stochastic hyperbolic discounting
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-09)We extend the classic Merton (1969, 1971) problem that investigates the joint consumption-savings and portfolio-selection problem under capital risk by assuming sophisticated but time-inconsistent agents. We introduce ... -
Consumption-Leisure Trade-offs and Persistency in Business Cycles
(2007)This paper studies whether nonseparabilities between consumption and leisure may help to explain the observed persistence in GNP growth. We consider an extended version of Lucas' (1988) human capital investment model that ... -
Cost-Saving production technologies and strategic delegation
(2004-02)This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms that produce a differentiated good can choose between two production technologies: a low marginal cost technology and a high marginal cost technology. For ... -
Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-12)In this paper we propose a simple method of characterizing countervailing incentives in adverse selection problems. The key element in our characterization consists of analyzing properties of the full information problem. ... -
Cultural Values, Family Decisions and Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Evidence from 26 OECD Economies
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2018-06-11)This paper examines the role of cultural values and family decision-making in the gender distribution of higher education on a panel database of 9 elds of study in 26 OECD countries over 1998-2012. The paper surmises ... -
Cyclical Features of Uzawa-Lucas Endogenous Growth Model
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-07)This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of a generalized version of Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model. We study the dynamic features of different cyclical components of this model characterized by a variety of ... -
DANTE: Un MEGA dinámico para el control del cambio climático en España
(2006)El estudio de los impactos económicos de las políticas de control del cambio climático requiere del uso de modelos adecuados. Este artículo presenta un Modelo Dinámico de Equilibrio General Aplicado tipo Ramsey. El modelo ... -
Data Revisions in the Estimation of DSGE Models
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)Revisions of US macroeconomic data are not white-noise. They are persistent, correlated with real-time data, and with high variability (around 80% of volatility observed in US real-time data). Their business cycle effects ... -
Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap: The effect of firms, occupations and Job Stratification
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)This paper presents new evidence on the role of segregation into firms, occupations within a firm and stratification into professional categories within firm-occupations in explaining the gender wage gap. I use a generalized ... -
Demand for Cultural Heritage
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)The concept of cultural heritage has experienced a process of extension during the past few decades. Because it is a cultural construction, it is subject to differences in appreciation based on contextual and institutional ... -
Democratic Values Transmission
(2013-01)This study addresses the issue of intergenerational transmission of democratic values embedded in social choice rules. We focus on a few rules which have been the focus of social choice theory: plurality, plurality with a ... -
Desarrollo Humano y cultura. Un análisis de la lógica cultural del PNUD en términos de poder
(Instituto Hegoa, 2016-05-01)El presente texto analiza el modo en que los Informes Mundiales del Desarrollo Humano del PNUD conceptualizan la cultura y su diversidad. Al observar el excesivo simplismo con el que este organismo internacional aborda ... -
Determinación de aceite esencial de lavandina y geraniol en un collar antiparásitos, mediante la técnica de extraccion sucesivas en espacio en cabeza, acoplado a cromatografia de gases con detección de espectrometría de masas (MHE-GC/ MS).
(Servicio Central de Analisis de Bizkaia (SCAB), 2019-06-01)La determinación de compuestos volátiles en matrices sólidas ha sido siempre un reto. Los métodos de extracción clásicos sólido-líquido y los tratamientos posteriores de los extractos (limpiezas, evaporación bajo corriente ... -
Determinación de compuestos orgánicos potencialmente alérgenos en equipos textiles de protección individual (EPIs) mediante analisis directo por pirólisis acoplado a cromatografía de gases espectrometría de masas (Py-GC/MS).
(2016-03-11)Nowadays different cases of allergy in different clothes have been observed due to organic components used in industrial preparation of garments. Mainly, these compounds are usually dyes although it is also possible to ... -
Determinación de naftaleno en creosotas mediante GC/MS.
(Servicio Central de Analisis de Bizkaia (SCAB), 2020-05-11)En todo proceso industrial es necesario un control de calidad de proceso, así como del producto final. Los métodos analíticos implicados deben ser métodos rápidos, sencillos y con una exactitud y precisión aceptable, para ... -
Discounting future pain: Effects on self-reported pain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-07)Empirical results are presented showing that people who acknowledge pain anticipation when expecting an injury experience higher sensitivity to pain (GREP, Robinson et al., 2001). The positive correlation between sensitivity ... -
Discriminating by Tagging: Artificial Distinction, Real Discrimination
(2011-02-08)We introduce a new variation of the hawk-dove game suggested by an experiment that studies the behavior of a group of domestic fowls when a subgroup has been marked. Speci cally we consider a population formed by two types ... -
Do experimental subjects favor their friends?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-06)Ideally we would like subjects of experiments to be perfect strangers so that the situation they face at the lab is not just part of a long run interaction. Unfortunately, it is not easy to reach those conditions and ... -
Do Mayoritarian Electoral Rules Favour Larger Industries in the Economy
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2016)Electoral rules translate votes into seats on different basis. Politicians respond differently to alternative electoral rules, and consequently, economic performance is expected to vary across rules. This paper empirically ...