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Analysing energy poverty in Spain
(2019)In this thesis we study energy poverty in Spain both at the level of concept and reality, using the Spanish family budgets survey for the year 2010. First we introduce the phenomenon of energy poverty analysing lightly its ... -
An estimation of Armington elasticities at the EU-28 level
(2019)The Armington substitution elasticity is a key parameter for trade-policy analysis. The purpose of this study then is no other than to re-estimate NEST 11 Armington elasticities making use of the upgraded versions of WIOD ... -
Public and private interest politics
(2019)This paper analyses the factors that influence politicians to enter politics. The objective of the project is to examine if the main motivation of politicians to enter politics is public interest or private interest. In ... -
The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
(2019)On June 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. This unexpected result provides us with the opportunity to study the impact of the vote on the economy. We replicate the work done by Born et al. (2017) ... -
Poverty in the Basque Country and poverty reduction measures
(2019)After the Great Recession, there is a wide debate about the implementation of Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) in order to reduce poverty. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Basque Country ... -
The impact of technological progress on the labor market: employment polarization in Europe
(2019)Following findings of recent literature, we analyze which are the main effects of the routine-bias technical change on employment. The master thesis shows evidence of employment polarization pattern for 16 European countries ... -
Determinants for cultural and sports attendance and practice in the U.S.A.
(2020)Cultural and sport events are two of the most common leisure activities nowadays. However, leisure time is limited and there may not be sufficient time to enjoy all activities desired. This research studies the effect of ... -
Health in cities: neighborhood effects and scioeconomic determinants in the Spanish case
(2020)The impact of place on individual outcomes, like health, presents many causal challenges that have disputed treatments in the literature. A 2011 study by Bilger Carrieri addresses them via instrumentation, to surprising ... -
Territorial distribution of immigrants in Europe
(2020)Uneven distribution of immigrant population has diverse consequences in countries and societies. We call immigrants those that have a nationality different to the reporting country. Some European regions have an important ... -
Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sectors: an input-output approach
(2020)After the Paris agreement, the transition to a low carbon economy is at the heart of the debate of the European energy and climate policy. One of the central targets of this transformation proposes changes in the energy ... -
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 ... -
The effect of a newborn on the household labour supply
(2020)This master’s thesis investigates the effect of a newborn on household members’ labour market status. With this goal in mind, we use data from the Spanish Household Budget Survey and causal inference methods to estimate ... -
Measuring school income segregation in Spain
(2020)In this work, our goal is to answer if Spanish students are differently located among schools depending on their standard of living. In other words, we analyse the segregation by income in schools in Spain. To do so, we ... -
The impact of COVID-19 confinement in the Euro Area: a Bayesian DSGE approach
(2020)With the aim of providing a preliminary forecast of the economic repercussion of the recent confinement, we estimate a canonical medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE) for the Euro Area economy, ... -
Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of government debt in the Euro Area
(2020)This paper empirically analyzes fiscal policy sustainability and the cyclicality in 19 Euro Area countries using data on government debt, primary deficit and the output gap. We investigate this over quarterly intervals, ... -
The sensitivity of estimated DSGE models to alternative data vintages
(2020)This paper considers the estimation of a structural DSGE model with three alternative macroeconomic data vintages corresponding to the first-release (real-time data), the third-release data, and the highly revised data to ... -
Earnings-based vs assets-based borrowing constraints and their impact on output
(2020)We present an overlapping generations model in order to assess the quantitative effects of financial frictions on output depending on the type of loan contract. Financial frictions are one of the major obstacles of the ...