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Business taxation and economic performance in hierarchical government structures
Revelli, Federico - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
the mid 2000s, and exploit such dramatic switch to identify the impact of tax policy on the economy. I model factor input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544076
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Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy
McCann, Philip; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
the sectoral growth literature, and one which has recently been applied with to the regional policy context. The shift … translating the idea to a regional policy context is rather more complex that it at first appears and implies some changes in both … interpretation and implications. The outcomes of this are that in a regional policy setting the smart specialisation logic is seen to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216791
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Homevoters vs. leasevoters: a spatial analysis of airport effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699012
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University research and the location of patents in Spain
Quevedo, José García - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2001
The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between innovative capacity and the presence of innovative inputs at a geographical level in Spain. Within the framework of a Griliches-Jaffe knowledge production function the effects of university research on corporate patents in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772714
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The location of innovation. Universities and technological infrastructure in Spain
Quevedo, José García - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2002
During the last decade, in Spain, there has been important growth and territorial expansion of universities and technological centres in support of the innovative activity in firms. This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, through a review of the theoretical and empirical studies the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005272692
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Electricity futures prices: time varying sensitivity to fundamentals
Fleten, Stein-Erik; Huisman, Ronald; Kilic, Mehtap; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
This paper provides insight in the time-varying relation between electricity futures prices and fundamentals in the form of prices of contracts for fossil fuels. As supply curves are not constant and different producers have different marginal costs of production, we argue that the relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796116
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Combining tariffs, investment subsidies and soft loans in a renewable electricity deployment policy
Mir-Artigues, Pere; Río, Pablo del - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
Policy combinations and interactions have received a considerable attention in the energy policy realm. The aim of our …. However, combinations may lead to different inter-temporal distributions of the same amount of policy costs which can affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796118
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Energy market liberalization and renewable energy policies in OECD countries
Vona, Francesco; Nicolli, Francesco - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
to dynamic specifications and various policy indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764228
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Costs of power supply flexibility: the indirect impact of a Spanish policy change
Huisman, Ronald; Trujillo-Baute, Elisa - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
with which nominated power plants can adjust their output to unexpected changed in residual demand. We exploit a policy … change in Spain that affected the power market. The policy, implemented in 2010, aims to provide a stimulus for producing … power with domestic coal. The policy, in combination with a year with scant rainfall in the year after the policy was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096681
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How effective are policies to reduce gasoline consumption? Evaluating a quasi-natural experiment in Spain
Asensio, Javier; Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Matas, Anna - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
fuel consumption implemented in Spain between March and June 2011. The first policy was a reduction in the speed limit in … highways. The second policy was an increase in the biofuel content of fuels used in the transport sector. The third measure was … content in gasolines. As for the reduction in transit fares, we do not find a significant effect for this policy. However, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633881