The recent financial turbulences, which started in the US in August 2007, have affected the credit market in many countries around the world.We have chosen some countries with and without a previous housing price bubble so as to check if the presence of a former real asset price hike matters in...

We analyze the effects of the expansions of the European Union on inequality over the period 1960-2005 using an approach based on individuals' lifecycle incomes. This allows us to estimate permanent incomes and consider the effect of both survival rates and different rates of economic growth....

Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on output, income and employment deriving from the...

The contribution of universities to society is due to both supply and demand side effects, the latter being associated with the injection of demand as a result of the activities these institutions carry out. This paper focuses on the impact of the demand side by designing a methodology based on...