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Location models for Ceding Market Share and Shrinking Services
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New location models are presented here for exploring the reduction of facilities in a region. The first of these models considers firms ceding market share to competitors under situations of financial exigency. The goal of this model is to cede the least market share, i.e., retain as much of the cus...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Radial Measures of Public Services Deficit for Regional Allocation of Public Funds
Author(s) :
Puig i Junoy, Jaume
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The goal of this paper is to present an optimal resource allocation model for the regional allocation of public service inputs. The proposed solution leads to maximise the relative public service availability in regions located below the best availability frontier, subject to exogenous budget restri...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption
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Recent evidence suggests that consumption rises in response to an increase in government spending. That finding cannot be easily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard new Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb consumers. We show how the...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
A BPE Model for the Burgers' Equation
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We study the BPE (Brownian particle equation) model of the Burgers equation presented in the preceeding article [6]. More precisely, we are interested in establishing the existence and uniqueness properties of solutions using probabilistic techniques.
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
An Empirical Evaluation of Small Area Estimators
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This paper investigates the comparative performance of five small area estimators. We use Monte Carlo simulation in the context of both theoretical and empirical populations. In addition to the direct and indirect estimators, we consider the optimal composite estimator with population weights, and t...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Increasing Political Returns and Rural-Urban Migrations
Author(s) :
Sánchez, Gabriel
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This paper analyzes the different equilibria in rural-urban migrations and political redistribution that result from the interaction between increasing political returns, the distribution of land, and credit market imperfections. Governments that put a special weight on the welfare of urban workers ...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment: Evidence from the Colombian Labour Market Reform
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Kugler, Adriana D.
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Reductions in firing costs are often advocated as a way of increasing the dynamism of labour markets in both developed and less developed countries. Evidence from Europe and the U.S. on the impact of firing costs has, however, been mixed. Moreover, legislative changes both in Europe and the U.S. hav...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars
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This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many authors have found empirical evidence that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth. One mechanism that can explain this nexus is the effect of ethnic heterogeneity...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
The Lender of Last Resort: A 21st Century Approach
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The object of this paper is to analyze rigorously the role of a Lender of Last Resort by providing a framework where the distinction between insolvency and illiquidity is not clearly cut. Determining the optimal Lender of Last Resort policy requires a careful modeling of the structure of the interba...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Incentives and Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Reforms in Spain
Author(s) :
Puig i Junoy, Jaume
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The aim of this paper is to assess whether cost-containment has been affected by recent pharmaceutical reimbursement reforms that have been introduced in the Spanish health care system over the period 1996-2002, under the conservative Popular Party government. Four main reimbursement policies can be...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English