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      Labor market transitions and the emancipation of young people 

      Bilbao Toucet, Ibone (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 ...
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      Local Fishing Communities and Nature Based Tourism in Baja, México: An Inter-Sectoral Valuation of Environmental Inputs 

      Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto ORCID; Knowler, Duncan; Schwoerer, Tobias; García-Martínez, Salvador (Springer Nature B.V., 2019-01-02)
      Nature-based tourism is often advocated as a desirable conservation strategy for smallscale fishing communities as it gives local people motivation to protect wildlife and ecosystems that attract visitors, while benefiting ...
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      Measuring economic segregation in the US-Metropolitan areas 

      Kurtz, Robert (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 ...
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      Measuring healthcare deprivation from self-reported data 

      Clemente Marcuello, María (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 ...
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      Measuring the value of ecosystem-based fishery management using financial portfolio theory 

      Carmona, Itsaso; Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto ORCID; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID; Escapa García, Marta ORCID; Gallastegui Zulaika, María Carmen; Murillas Maza, Arantza; Prellezo Iguarán, Raúl (Elsevier, 2019-11-25)
      We highlight the potential benefits of adopting Ecosystem-based Fishery Management (EBFM). We compare the EBFM implementation with the more traditional single-stock approach. We show the contribution of the portfolio theory ...
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      Mergers between local public firms 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (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 ...
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      Metastasis, an Example of Evolvability 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Manini, Claudia; Iñarra García, María Elena ORCID; López Fernández de Villaverde, José Ignacio ORCID (MDPI, 2021-06-21)
      This overview focuses on two different perspectives to analyze the metastatic process taking clear cell renal cell carcinoma as a model, molecular and ecological. On the one hand, genomic analyses have demonstrated up to ...
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      Opportunity bias in Spain: empirical evidence, drivers and trends 

      Curull Sentís, Marta (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 ...
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      Partial privatization in an international mixed oligopoly under product differentiation 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Springer-Verlag, 2020-05-16)
      [EN]We consider an international mixed market that comprises two countries, each of which owns one public firm and one private firm. As a benchmark case, we consider a single country that owns all four firms. In both ...
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      Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations 

      Dong, Quean; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (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 ...
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      Privatisation and Vertical Integration under a Mixed Duopoly 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Elsevier, 2018-08-17)
      [EN] This paper analyses the privatisation of public firms when private firms may be vertically in- tegrated with their suppliers. We consider a mixed duopoly with a vertically integrated public firm. The private firm ...
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      Robotization in Spanish firms: The impact of automation 

      Belar Totorikaguena, Josu (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 ...
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      School bullying and social networks 

      Vasco Ruiz, Mónica (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 ...
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      Spanish income mobility in the period 2017-2020 

      Pérez San Juan, Nerea (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 ...
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      Subjective well-being and consumption: defining the relationship and exploring the effects of overconsumption 

      Blevins, Rebecca Jane (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 ...
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      Supported degree: a new network measure 

      Serebriakov, Ivan (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 ...
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      The demand for health services in Spain: does having private insurance matter? 

      Alzugaray Garcia, Joaquin (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 ...
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      The Economic Consequences of the Libyan Spring: A Synthetic Control Analysis 

      Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel ORCID; García Enríquez, Javier ORCID (Taylor & Francis, 2019)
      [EN] In 2011 a wave of revolutionary movements, the so-called Arab Spring, spread in the Middle East and North Africa. Libya was one of the most affected countries, ending Gaddafi’s dictatorship after an international ...
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      The economic cost of the Arab Spring: the case of the Egyptian revolution 

      Echevarría Olave, Cruz Ángel ORCID; García Enríquez, Javier ORCID (Springer Nature, 2020)
      [EN] This paper analyzes the effects that the Arab Spring and the subsequent revolution had on per capita real Gross Domestic Product in Egypt. The estimation procedure that we follow is the synthetic control method. After ...
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      The effect of domain and framing on elicited risk aversion 

      Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ORCID; Ezquerra, Lara (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 ...