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Distributional impact of COVID-19: regional inequalities in cases and deaths in Spain during the first wave
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-03)
Spain is being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first wave, from mid-March to early June 2020, the disease caused nearly 30,000 deaths in a population of 47 million. This article quantifies the unevenness in ...
The role of production factors on landings heterogeneity between EU countries
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
[EN]Distribution of natural resources is considered to be a key aspect in ensuring the success of conservation policies. The Common Fisheries Policy, implemented by the European Union (EU), is an example of long-term ...
Environmental corporate social responsibility, R&D and disclosure of “green” innovation knowledge
(Elsevier, 2023-04)
The literature on the environment has analyzed how firms carry out R&D to reduce their pollutant emissions, assuming that they maximize profits. However, empirical evidence shows that firms are increasingly concerned about ...
Effects of Heterogeneity on Cancer: A Game Theory Perspective
(Springer, 2023-08)
In this study, we explore interactions between cancer cells by using the hawk–dove
game. We analyze the heterogeneity of tumors by considering games with populations
composed of 2 or 3 types of cell. We determine what ...
The effect of domain and framing on elicited risk aversion
(Public Library Science, 2022-09)
Experimental literature has found that risk attitudes are not robust to different elicitation techniques. However, most comparisons across elicitation methods involve different rewards and framings simultaneously. Our ...
International trade and environmental corporate social responsibility
(Elsevier, 2022-11)
This paper analyzes firms' incentives to engage in environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) in an international market under imperfect competition. We find that in the absence of environmental taxes firms do ...
A connections model with decreasing returns link-formation technology
(Springer, 2023-03)
We study a connections model where the strength of a link depends on the amount invested in it and is determined by an increasing strictly concave function. The revenue from investments in links is the value (information, ...
Mergers between local public firms
(Elsevier, 2018-10-19)
[EN]We consider a country made up of two regions, where each region owns a local public firm and a
domestic private one. A national authority decides whether or not to merge the two local public
firms. The result depends ...
Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-09-14)
[EN]We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complementary or substitute goods and that competes with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants ...
Intellectual property rights and North-South trade: exports vs. foreign direct investment
(Universidad de Chile, 2022-12)
This paper examines whether a Northern firm prefers to export or to engage in FDI to serve the South. If the firm engages in FDI, its technology is imitated, and a Southern firm enters the market that may sell in both ...