The economic image of the seventeenth century Spain: The foreign look versus the viwof the Arbitristas This paper compares the economic image of the seventeenth century Spain we received from the foreign travelers with that offered by the arbitristas, examining the main similarities and...

By the mid-nineteenth century, along with other network infrastructurestypical of the Second Industrial Revolution, began to take shape the modern system of water supply. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major economic ideas surrounding the beginnings of this new urban service in...

This paper features an application of Regular Vine copulas which are a novel and recently developed statistical and mathematical tool which can be applied in the assessment of composite financial risk. Copula-based dependence modelling is a popular tool in financial applications, but is usually...

Of the two most widely estimated univariate asymmetric conditional volatility models, the exponential GARCH (or EGARCH) specification can capture asymmetry, which refers to the different effects on conditional volatility of positive and negative effects of equal magnitude, and leverage, which...

We introduce a two layer network model for social coordination incorporating two relevant ingredients: a) different networks of interaction to learn and to obtain a pay-off, and b) decision making processes based both on social and strategic motivations. Two populations of agents are distributed...

This paper features an analysis of the effectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies as applied to a set of daily arithmetically compounded returns on a set of ten market indices representing the major European markets for a nine year period from the beginning of 2005 to the...

This paper estimates how demographic changes in the composition of the labor force affect the unemployment rate in the U.S. In addition to the effect coming from changes in the weights of the individual groups comprising the total, the impact of compositional changes on the individual...

Macroeconomics has been dominated over the last four decades by the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH) which implies that economies are inherently stable. REH is a key element of the New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) macroeconomic model which has also played a dominant role in theory and...

En este trabajo se realiza un análisis comparado de los sistemas de rentas mínimas autonómicas en España con los programas de garantía de rentas en los demás países de la Unión Europea. Estos programas constituyen, dentro del amplio abanico de gastos sociales, los más directamente...

En este trabajo se contrasta la hipótesis de endogeneidad monetaria en la economía española durante el período 1980-2012 desde un enfoque kaleckiano. Se aporta evidencia de las fluctuaciones y oscilaciones cíclicas de los agregados monetarios y el volumen de crédito bancario, junto con las...