Projects, presentations, and notes for master's courses at Universitat de Barcelona, School of Economics.
- In Analysis & Evaluation of Public Policies w. Daniel Albalate del Sol:
- Prolonged job training programs: A research note. Proposing a research design for evaluating the effect of prolonged job training programs for those in risk of long-term unemployment. A policy tested by two Danish municipalities.
- In Ecological Economics w. Mònica Serrano:
- Food Related Drivers of the Growth in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. A structural decomposition analysis. Pending.
- In Macroeconometrics w. Josep Lluís Carrion-i-Silvestre:
- In Panel Data w. Vicente Royuela Mora:
- Stata-code for Economic impacts of internal and external R&D processes over time: How and when sales of new products are increased. Comparing the Between, Fixed Effects, and Random Effects estimators using the PITEC panel of Spanish firms. Lagged and persistent effects of both internal and external R&D spending are analyzed using leads of different length for the sales of new products.
- In Regional & Urban Economics w. Enrique López-Bazo:
- Stata-code for Invention and sales of new products: Is the firm or the region key?. Examining potential spillover effects from internal R&D spending in other firms within the region. Heterogeneity between the manufacturing and service sector in terms of which types of R&D activities are productive.
- In Regulation, Privatization & Institutions w. Germà Bel:
- The value of local political connections in Japan: A research note. Motivating and suggesting a comprehensive research design for examining the value of political connections for firms owned by family members of local politicians using the shocks to political power provided by a series of municipal mergers in Japan.
- In Public Economics II: Theory of Taxation w. Javier Vázquez-Grenno:
- Discrepancy in the Elasticity of Taxable Income: A literature review. Analyzing differences in the estimated size of the Elasticity of Taxable Income between studies using different estimation methods and carried out on data covering different tax reforms in the US and Denmark respectively.
- In Analysis & Evaluation of Public Policies w. Daniel Albalate del Sol:
- Presentation on the Regression Discontinuity Design in the study by Duflo, Dupas & Kremer (2011) "Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya". In: American Economic Review 101.5, pp. 1739-74.
- In Regional & Urban Economics w. Enrique López-Bazo:
- Presentation on different studies on regional wage disparities, especially regarding the urban wage premium.
- In Regulation, Privatization & Institutions w. Germà Bel:
- Presentation on the study of the 2005 merge of municipalities in Denmark by Amore, Mario Daniele and Morten Bennedsen (2013) “The value of local political connections in a low-corruption environment”. In: Journal of Financial Economics 110.2, pp. 387–402.
- In Public Economics II: Theory of Taxation w. Javier Vázquez-Grenno:
- Presentation on the project described above, Discrepancy in the Elasticity of Taxable Income: A literature review.
- Ecological Economics w. Monica Serrano Gutierrez.
- Macroeconometrics w. Josep Lluís Carrion-i-Silvestre.
- Panel Data w. Vicente Royuela Mora.