14:30 – Aula 320 Espai de Recerca en Economia (ERE) – Facultat d’Economia i Empresa de la UB
Seth Giertz (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
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V WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION: Lifelong Learning Policies & Strategies
2014 Summer Workshop of the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy
Newsletter XREAP 01/2014
The XREAP Newsletter 01/2014 has been already published.
Will increasing the supply of Gatekeeper GPs reduce Hospital Admissions?
15:00 – Departament d’Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Catia Nicodemo (CHESO & Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
Causes and Effects of Air Traffic Delays: Evidence from Aggregated Data
13:00 – Espai de Recerca de la Facultat d’Economia i Empresa de la Universitat de Barcelona
Volodymyr Bilotkach (Newcastle University)
1st MEETING ON TRANSPORT ECONOMICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
XREAP2014-02: Spatial Polarization of the Ecological Footprint distribution
he international allocation of natural resources is determined, not by any ethical or ecological criteria, but by the dominance of market mechanisms. From a core-periphery perspective, this allocation may even be driven by historically determined structural patterns, with a core group of countries whose consumption appropriates most available natural resources, and another group, having low natural resource consumption, which plays a peripheral role. This article consists of an empirical distributional analysis of natural resource consumption (as measured by Ecological Footprints) whose purpose is to assess the extent to which the distribution of consumption responds to polarization (as opposed to mere inequality). To assess this, we estimate and decompose different polarization indices for a balanced sample of 119 countries over the period 1961 to 2007. Our results points toward a polarized distribution which is consistent with a core-periphery framework.
Teixidó-Figueres, J. (GRIT); Duró, J.A. (GRIT)
XREAP2014-04: Optimal stop-loss reinsurance: a dependence analysis
The stop-loss reinsurance is one of the most important reinsurance contracts in the insurance market. From the insurer point of view, it presents an interesting property: it is optimal if the criterion of minimizing the variance of the cost of the insurer is used. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the analysis of the stop-loss contract in one period from the point of view of the insurer and the reinsurer. Firstly, the influence of the parameters of the reinsurance contract on the correlation coefficient between the cost of the insurer and the cost of the reinsurer is studied. Secondly, the optimal stop-loss contract is obtained if the criterion used is the maximization of the joint survival probability of the insurer and the reinsurer in one period.
Castañer, A. (CREB); Claramunt, M.M. (CREB)
XREAP2014-05: Job accessibility, employment and job-education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona
This paper analyses the effect of job accessibility by public and private transport on labour market outcomes in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Beyond employment, we consider the effect of job accessibility on job-education mismatch, which represents a relevant aspect of job quality. We adopt a recursive system of equations that models car availability, employment and mismatch. Public transport accessibility appears as an exogenous variable in the three equations. Even though it may reflect endogenous residential sorting, falsification proofs suggest that the estimated effect of public transport accessibility is not entirely driven by the endogenous nature of residential decisions.
Di Paolo, A. (AQR-IREA); Matas, A. (GEAP); Raymond, J.Ll. (GEAP)