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A New Approach to Measure the Impact of Highways on Business Location with and Application to Spain

Garcia-Milà, Teresa; Montalvo, José G. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

In this paper we present a new approach to measure the effect of infrastructures on firms’ location. We use fixed size rectangles around the roads as the unit of analysis instead of the traditional approach based on regions or municipalities. We apply this approach to Spain, which is an...

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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

The identification of aggregate human capital externalities is still not fully understood. The existing (Mincerian) approach confounds positive externalities with wage changes due to a downward sloping demand curve for human capital. As a result, it yields positive externalities even when wages...

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Partnership in Open Innovation

Martinez-Giralt, Xavier; Nicolini, Rosella - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

This paper aims at assessing the importance of the initial technological endowments when firms decide to create R&D agreements. We study a Bertrand duopoly where firms evaluate the returns of an agreement according to its length. A learning process allows us to depict a close connection between...

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Oligopolistic Equilibrium and Financial Constraints

Beviá, Carmen; Corchón, Luis C.; Yasuda, Yosuke - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

In this paper we present a model of oligopoly and financial constraints. We study allocations which are bankruptcy-free (BF) in the sense that no firm can drive another firm to bankruptcy without becoming bankrupt. We show how such allocations can be sustained as an equilibrium of a dynamic...

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Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle

Carvalho, Vasco; Grassi, Basile - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

Do large firm dynamics drive the business cycle? We answer this question by developing a quantitative theory of aggregate fluctuations caused by firm-level disturbances alone. We show that a standard heterogeneous firm dynamics setup already contains in it a theory of the business cycle, without...

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Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

fertility. The gender gap in wages, after controlling for worker and job characteristics as well as for selection, is high. It …

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Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Llull, Joan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

driven by selection into marriage at younger ages, while there might be a protective effect of marriage at older ages. We … analyze how selection and protective effects of marriage show up in the data. …

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Heterogeneity, Selection and Labor Market Disparities

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

We study the incentives to improve ability in a model where heterogeneous firms and workers interact in a labor market characterized by matching frictions and costly screening. When effort in improving ability raises both the mean and the variance of the resulting ability distribution, multiple...

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Wealth constraints, skill prices or networks: what determines emigrant selection?

Moraga, Jesus Fernández-Huertas - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008

The productive characteristics of migrating individuals, emigrant selection, affect welfare. The empirical estimation … of the degree of selection suffers from a lack of complete and nationally representative data. This paper uses a new and … selection for Mexican emigrants to the United States for the period 2000-2004 together with positive selection in Mexican …

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Strike Outcomes and Wage Settlements in Spain

Jimenez-Martin, Sergi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

dynamic context. Furthermore, we find selection in wage equations induced by the strike outcome. In this sense, the …

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