Working papers GEAR

The WORKING PAPERS GEAR is a collection of research documents authored or co-authored by our PhD research students. This collection also publishes master thesis from MAREB/Applied Economics candidates that were awarded with an excellent final grade.

This series aims at spreading the research of our program and it belongs to the DDD-UAB repository center.

The WORKING PAPERS GEAR can be found at this link

The current list of availble working papers is the following:

2020-01

Juan A. Piedra Peña; Diego Prior

Analyzing the effect of health reforms on the efficiency of Ecuadorian public hospitals

July 2020

2020-02

Bita Shabgard

Single Euro Payment Area and Banking Industry:  Discriminatory Pricing vs. Non-Discriminatory Pricing

July 2020

2020-03

Roland Miranda Lescano; Leonel Muinelo-Gallo

Redistributive Efficiency of Fiscal Policy: The Role of Decentralisation

September 2020

2020-04

David Tercero Lucas

Non-Standard Monetary Policies and Bank Profitability: The Case of Spain

September 2020

2020-05

Juan A. Piedra Peña

Spatial dependence in hospitals efficiency: A spatial econometric approach for Ecuadorian public hospitals

September 2020

2020-06

David Tercero Lucas

A Global Digital Currency to rule them all? A monetary-financial view of the Facebook's LIBRA for the Euro area

September 2020

2020-07

Bita Shabgard

Card Payment Market and Retail Prices: An Empirical Analysis of The Effects of The Interchange Fee on Price Levels in Spain

October 2020

2021-01

Juan A. Piedra Peña

On the dynamics of patient migration flows: Is efficiency performance explaining inflows for neighboring  hospitals? An application to the Ecuadorian healthcare system

February 2021

2022-01

David Tercero Lucas

Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Stability in a Modern Monetary System

May 2022

2023-01

Karina Colombo - M. Elisa Failache Mirza

Exposure to High Speed Internet and Early Childhood Development

January 2023

2023-02

Martín Brun, Conchita d'Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos

After you. Cognition and health-distribution preferences

January 2023

2023-03

Miquel-Ángel Garcia-López, Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández

Housing prices, buses and trams in Medellin (Colombia)

May 2023

2023-04

Diego Buitrago-Mora, Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

Real estate prices and land use regulations: Evidence from the Law of Heights in Bogotá

May 2023

2023-05

Ana Larrea, Xavier Ramos

Relative malnutrition and deprivation in Ecuador

November 2023

2023-06

Ana Larrea, Xavier Ramos

Long term effects of pre-natal exposure to maternal stress: Evidence from the financial crisis in Ecuador 

November 2023

2024-01

Marcela Gomez-Ruiz, María Cervini-Plá, Xavier Ramos

Do women fare worse when men are around ? Quasi-experimental evidence

February 2024

2024-02

Kenneth F. Castillo-Hidalgo

The impact of KIBS agglomeration on Chilean Mining Sector Productivity

June 2024

Last update: June 2024