Empirical studies such as Goyal, van der Leij and Moraga (2006) or Newman (2004) show that scientific collaboration networks present a highly unequal and hierarchical distribution of links. This implies that some researchers can be much more active and productive than others and, consequently,...

This paper analyzes the incentives of the members of a committee to acquire skills, when they will share a fixed budget among them in ex-post negotiations. Skills are interpreted as the ability to manage a collective budget, in the sense that shares assigned to skilled agents generate positive...

This note analyzes the efficiency properties of the equilibrium in a multilateral bargaining game in which a legislature divides a budget among collective and particularistic goods. We extend the model of Volden and Wiseman (2007) by considering smooth utility functions and consensus...

This paper analyses the main distinctive features of the situations of labour discrimination that women are actually suffering. Men and women play different roles at home, in society and at work. A strong occupational segregation (horizontal and vertical) and serious wage differences between men...

We analyze the effects of the unemployment benefit system on the economy. In particular, we focus on both the tax structure and the unemployment benefits composition. We show that if the unemployment benefit system is only paid by firms, then employment and production are maximized. Moreover,...

In this paper we analyse, from a theoretical perspective, the effects of some of the initiatives implemented in Spain aimed at improving the scientific output in the Spanish Universities. Our results show that those incentives that represent a reduction of the teaching-hours or that represent an...

The microsimulation models simulate the tax-benefit system for a sample of individuals or households obtained from a microeconomic survey. The results obtained for each household or individual will be used to consider the effects on the tax collection and the distribution of the disposable...

International trade is a major channel for technology diffusion. However regressing trade in R&D intensive goods to evaluate the effect of technology imports on productivity in a cross section of countries may be misleading because of simultaneity bias. I identify the effect of technology trade...

Durante los últimos 20 años, el sistema redistributivo español ha sufrido grandes cambios. En 1999, el Partido Popular introdujo una nueva Ley y el debate académico y político sobre sus efectos sobre la igualdad y la eficiencia aún está abierto. En el presente trabajo pretendemos analizar...

Nowadays some Public Administrations are reforming their information systems in order to adapt them to new needs of public management. In this sense, Budget as the main management tool needs to be part of these reforms. There are only a few number of countries that have adopted a results based...