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Impact of the phase out of French nuclear plants on the Spanish electricity market
(2020)One of the key elements in the transition to low carbon economies is the phase-out of fossil-fuel based technologies. Nuclear power, despite not being a high emitting source, is one of the technologies at the heart of the ... -
Who bears the risk? Analyzing the strategic interaction between regulators and investors when setting incentives for renewable electricity
(2020)Energy policies for promoting investment in renewable energy sources have become crucial for deploying different green energy technologies. Depending on their design, the conventional incentive systems assign the risk ... -
Pigmentocracy, social mobility and inequality of opportunity in Mexico
(2020)Wealth inequality in Mexico has gained attention in recent years, with a public responding to economic realities that precipitate less security and a more narrow horizon of opportunity for its citizens. This paper examines ... -
Social class segregation in upper-secondary school choice in Canada
(2020)The aim of this work is to analyze how the spoken language at home influences the parental decision on school choice in Canada. There is a vast literature on the factors affecting school choice, but very little research ... -
Measuring economic segregation in the US-Metropolitan areas
(2021)This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on “Income Ethnical Segregation” by constructing an index that analyses US Census Data from 1990 until 2010. Following the groundwork of the “SSI” the results can be considered ... -
Geometry of Diffusion: structure of connectivity and systemic risk in financial networks.
(2021)Ever since the 2008 global financial crises, both scholars and practitioners have argued that the interconnectivity of financial and banking networks is a key determinant of global systemic risk. Employing a simple diffusion ... -
Supported degree: a new network measure
(2021)Since interaction between people exists at all levels of human activity, understanding how the patterns of interactions shape behavior and performance of network members is a key question across social sciences. This ... -
The need for requalification in the Spanish labour market: mapping employment with workplace skills
(2021)This study addresses the empirical relationship between job tasks and employment share changes in Spain for the period 1997-2019. To do so, we use the novel European representative data on skills/tasks ESCO. Overall, we ... -
Opportunity bias in Spain: empirical evidence, drivers and trends
(2021)The aim of this study is to measure opportunity bias in Spain. This purpose requires to analyse current outcomes as a function of opportunities, and how the latter affect the first. Opportunities are defined in terms of ... -
Estimation of costs and benefits of debris mitigation
(2021)Space debris is an ever escalating problem that is increasing the orbital scarcity and threatening its sustainability. In this document, we present a model for the market of satellite services where firms’ activity imposes ... -
The relation between electricity and natural gas spot prices in Spain: cointegration and volatility spill-over analysis
(2021)The relation between electricity and natural gas prices got increased attention recently, after their joint rise in many European countries. The present Master Thesis explains the theoretical relation between both markets ... -
Gender gap in the energy sector. Evidence from Spain
(2021)The energy transition is at the heart of the current energy debate and its social dimension is becoming more relevant in the latest policy developments. This Master Thesis aims to develop the research on one of the ... -
The demand for health services in Spain: does having private insurance matter?
(2021)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the question of whether there exists any difference in the use of the Spanish healthcare services between privately and publicly insured individuals. The analysis is carried out ... -
Asset pricing: analysis of multi-factor models using Fama and French factors
(2021)The present paper considers the five factors proposed by Fama and French (1992, 2015), plus the factor proposed by Carhartt (1997): market premium, size, book-to-market ratio, profitabil- ity, investment, and momentum. The ... -
School bullying and social networks
(2022)Although school bullying has enormous health, social, and economic consequences that last throughout the entire human life, most bullying- prevention programs are ineffective partially because detecting bullies and their ... -
The importance of efficient designs in discrete choice experiments for environmental valuation
(2022)Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are considered to be an appealing approach that is nowadays frequently used among researchers in many fields. No exception is their application in the field of environmental valuation, ... -
Detecting collusion: An application of the synthetic control method
(2022)The Spanish antitrust authorities charged car makers with information sharing and collusion in the Spanish market in the period 2006 - 2013. Using data on car prices for models sold in a set of European countries, in the ... -
Electricity Price Forecasting using Sale and Purchase Curves: The X-Model Evidence for Spain
(2022)In this Master Thesis, we implement in the Spanish electricity market the X-Model proposed by Ziel and Steinert (2016), combining the insights of market structure models with econometric techniques. Instead of directly ... -
An Analysis of the Tourism Demand in the Dominican Republic From 2001 to 2021
(2022)In this study, we estimate the tourism demand elasticities model by income and prices in the Dominican Republic from the top ten leading countries in tourism, from the first quarter of 2001 to the last quarter of 2021. The ... -
Measuring healthcare deprivation from self-reported data
(2022)The aim of this Master’s thesis is to analyze households’ healthcare deprivation and its determinants in Spain for the years 2014, 2017 and 2020. The analysis is divided in two main sections; the first one aims to determine ...