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We use a North-South model with property right differences and resource dynamics to study the effects of trade on resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile, and the result is reversed when the environment is...
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This paper investigates the determinants of trends in Spain's industrial exports to other Community countries by using … influence of advertising expenditure and, to a lesser extent, technological effort on Spain's industrial export performance. …
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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
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government. We estimate the model using 1995Q1-2013Q2 data for Spain, the rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the rest of the world … for Spanish households and firms, as well as a fall in the interest rate spread between Spain and the REA fuelled the … Spanish output boom and the persistent rise in foreign capital flows to Spain, before the global financial crisis. During and …
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this paper for the particular case of Spain, a fast growing country in the second half of the twentieth century. It is …
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honour his debts four times during his reign. In this paper, we reassess the fiscal position of Habsburg Spain. New archival … make the king's debt sustainable for most of his reign. Spain's debt burden was manageable up to the 1580s, and its fiscal … functions, and show that Spain under the Habsburgs was at least as "responsible" as the US in the 20th century or as Britain in …
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This paper provides a conceptual framework to analyze the main economic issues raised by Spain's integration into the … described as a major anticipated permanent shock with both real and financial consequences. In the case of Spain it is found …
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institutional and macroeconomic features as the ultimate explanations of Spain's post-war growth performance. The following main … relative stagnation of the transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy (1975-85), which ended with Spain's membership of …
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In this paper we analyse the underlying causes behind Spanish unemployment which is now at 24%. We interpret this unfortunate outcome as the result of a series of adverse shocks, compounded by disinflationary policies and by a flawed system of labour market institutions. Our aim is to explain...
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This Paper compares the observed distribution of the stock of infrastructures across the Spanish regions with the optimal allocation derived from a planning problem in which the observed degree of ex-post redistribution is taken as given. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy...
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