BackExaminar Master in Economics: Empirical Applications and Policies por departamento (cas.) "Análisis Económico"
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A discriminatory auction for the day-ahead electricity market: its effect on windfall profits
(2022-07-29)The main goal of the present Master Thesis is to analyze the Spanish elec- tricity day-ahead market from the design perspective, which like most European countries follows a uniform auction. Indeed, the price is set by the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Employment and the risk of domestic violence
(2022)In this master’s thesis we study the effect on the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) for women of the emplyoment status of herself, her partner and income to- gether with a set of exogenous sociodemographic factors. ... -
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 ... -
Estimation of the price elasticity of the Spanish households’ electricity demand
(2022)In the past few months the electricity price has considerably increased in Spain due to major international crises which lead to instability in the market. To understand better how Spanish households change their consumption ... -
Evolvement of a household’s income after retirement: A microeconomic study into French and Spanish households
(2023)Replacement rates are an effective way to analyze how income evolves following the retirement of an individual as the ratio of pre- and post-retirement income. Individuals generally live in a multi-person household, which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Improving the understanding of individual and household characteristics in the analysis of poverty in Bolivia
(2022)This thesis aims to determine to what extent differences in individual and household characteristics within the same country affect the poverty of different areas of Bolivia or different social groups. The analysis is ... -
Labor market transitions and the emancipation of young people
(2022)Youth emancipation is defined as the state of independence that young people achieve when they have a job and can afford housing independent of their parents. In the last decade, Spain shows a growing number of young people ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Robotization in Spanish firms: The impact of automation
(2023)Based on the studies conducted by Acemoglu, Lelarge, and Restrepo (2020) and Koch, Manuylov, and Smolka (2021), this article aims to assess the short-term impact of robot adoption on the performance of Spanish manufacturing ... -
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 ... -
Spanish income mobility in the period 2017-2020
(2023)Income mobility is a dynamic phenomenon that may pave the way for the establishment of egalitarian societies aimed at enhancing the global welfare of the individuals and dismantling social and economic concerns such as ... -
Subjective well-being and consumption: defining the relationship and exploring the effects of overconsumption
(2023)Previous economic studies on subjective well-being have primarily focused on income, and limited research has been conducted on the relationship between consumption and subjective well-being, which lies at the core of ...