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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 ...
INTERPOL's surveillance network in curbing transnational terrorism
(2014-10-23)
This paper investigates the role that INTERPOL surveillance – the Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND) – played in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND ...
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 ...
Fractional Integration Analysis and its Implications on Profitability: the Case of the Mackerel Market in the Basque Country
(2010)
This paper analyses weekly prices for mackerel landed by the inshore fleet at the ports of the Basque Country in 1995-2008, using new econometric techniques never before applied to the fishing market. The idea is to learn ...
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 ...
Strategic Votes and Sincere Counterfactuals
(2013-11-07)
The Random Utility Model (RUM) of voting behavior can account for strategic voting by making use of proxy indicators that measure voter incentives to vote strategically. The
contribution of this paper is to propose a new ...
Evaluating governance and participatory processes in Natura 2000: lessons learned and guidance for future prospects
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
In recent years, participatory approaches have been incorporated in decision-making processes as a way to strengthen the bonds between diverse areas of knowledge and social actors in natural resources management and ...
Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms
(2011)
The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms’ location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining
their ...
The reverse self-dual serial cost-sharing rule
(Departamento de Economía Aplicada IV, UPV-EHU, 2012)
In this study we define a cost sharing rule for cost sharing
problems. This rule is related to the serial cost-sharing rule defined by Moulin
and Shenker (1992). We give some formulas and axiomatic characterizations
for ...
Intermediate serial cost-sharing rules
(Departamento de Economía Aplicada IV, UPV/EHU, 2014)
In this paper we give a generalization of the serial cost-sharing rule defined by Moulin and Shenker (1992) for cost sharing problems. According to the serial cost sharing rule, agents with low demands of a good pay cost ...