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Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...
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describes the strengths and weaknesses of Spain’s recent long growth cycle, the real and financial imbalances accumulated … pressure, partly initiated by unjustified catastrophic expectations about Spain, provides an opportunity for accelerating the …
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-market allocation of resources and allowed Spain to accelerating growth and catching up with Western Europe. Without the 1959 Plan, per …
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employment. We pay special attention to Spain, a country that has experienced a high persistent unemployment rate, and show that …
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Between 1850 and 2000, Spain’s real income increased by about 40-fold, at an average rate of 2.5 percent. The sources … European Union Spain has experienced a dramatic productivity slowdown. …
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Agreements are progressively implemented, is projected to have a significant impact on trade flows with Spain, as exports and … probably respond to the relative factor endowments underlying current trade patterns. Spain is likely to increase its exports … take place.The evolution of trade flows will, of course, be contingent upon developments in FDI. Most FDI in Spain in …
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This paper investigates the determinants of trends in Spain's industrial exports to other Community countries by using … influence of advertising expenditure and, to a lesser extent, technological effort on Spain's industrial export performance. …
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honour his debts four times during his reign. In this paper, we reassess the fiscal position of Habsburg Spain. New archival … make the king's debt sustainable for most of his reign. Spain's debt burden was manageable up to the 1580s, and its fiscal … functions, and show that Spain under the Habsburgs was at least as "responsible" as the US in the 20th century or as Britain in …
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