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Environmental Structural Decomposition Analysis of Italian Emissions, 1995-2005

Rocchi, Paola; Serrano, Monica - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2011

This study analyses the evolution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and acidification emissions for Italy in the years 1995-2005. Looking at data, while emissions that contribute to the local problem of acidification have been decreasing quite constantly, GHG emissions have been showing a slight...

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How Do Aggregate Fluctuations Depend on the Network Structure of the Economy?

Burlon, Lorenzo - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012

In this paper we analyze the aggregate volatility of a stylized economy where agents are networked. If strategic relations connect agents,actions, idiosyncratic shocks can generate nontrivial aggregate fluctuations. We show that the aggregate volatility depends on the network structure of the...

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“Fiscal sustainability and fiscal shocks in a dollarized and oil-exporting country: Ecuador”

Cristo, María Lorena Marí del; Gómez-Puig, Marta - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2013

This paper investigates the fiscal sustainability of an emerging, dollarized, oil-exporting country: Ecuador. A … cointegrated VAR approach is adopted in testing, first, if the intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied in Ecuador and, second … activity and oil revenues implemented in the government budget. We argue that Ecuador needs to recover control of its monetary …

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Building a Social Accounting Matrix within the ESA95 Framework: Obtaining a Dataset for Applied General Equilibrium Modelling

Lucena, Abel Ernesto; Gutierrez, Monica Serrano - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2006

This research provides a description of the process followed in order to assemble a Social Accounting Matrix for Spain corresponding to the year 2000 (SAMSP00). As argued in the paper, this process attempts to reconcile ESA95 conventions with requirements of applied general equilibrium...

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The empirics of spatial competition: Evidence from European regions

Brown, Nestor Duch - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2006

The New Economic Geography literature allows detailed analysis of the factors that determine the location decisions of firms in integrated markets. However, the competitive process is modelled in a rather rudimentary way, and the empirical evidence has usually been obtained from reduced-form...

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Income Growth and Atmospheric Pollution in Spain: An Input-Output Approach

Jusmet, Jordi Roca; Gutierrez, Monica Serrano - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2006

The relationships between economic growth and environmental pressures are complex. Since the early nineties, the debate on these relationships has been strongly influenced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, which states that during the first stage of economic development...

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Embodied pollution in Spanish household consumption: a disaggregate analysis

Roca, Jordi; Serrano, Monica - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

In this paper we apply an environmentally extended input-output model to analyse a specific issue related to the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. The purpose is to study whether the consumption structure ofwealthier households has a positive effect on the reduction of environmental...

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“Income inequality in Europe. Analysis of recent trends at the regional level”

Ramos, Raul; Royuela, Vicente - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014

The evolution of income inequality is becoming a great concern all over the World, particularly since the start of the Great Recession. In this work we analyse the main trends of income inequality in Europe over the last decade, both at the national and regional level. Our results point to a...

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Una nova estimacio retrospectiva del VAB regional industrial. Espanya (1860-1930)

Tirado, Daniel A.; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

This article offers a new historical dataset of industrial GVA for Spanish provinces (NUTSIII) and autonomous regions (NUTS II). For doing that, a new methodology is proposed in order to estimate historical figures of regional GVA. Traditional estimates of regional industrial output in Spain...

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Industrial agglomerations and wage gradients: the Spanish economy in the interwar period

Fabregat, Daniel Aurelio Tirado; Novell, Jordi Pons; … - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2003

This paper gives new evidence on the relationship between integration and industrial agglomeration in the presence of scale economies, by testing directly one of the predictions that can be derived from Krugman (1991), that is, the existence of regional nominal wage gradients and its...

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