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Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation
(2017-07-07)We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior ... -
Public procurement for the formation of markets for innovation: Coordination failures and instruments
(2016-03-08)Public procurement essentially consists in the purchase of goods and/or services helping public administrations performing (better) their public services missions. Its role has evolved and it is increasingly used as an ... -
Scale Effects, Innovations and Spillovers: New Insights from Emerging Countries
(2016-03-30)There has been a concomitant rise in R&D and the rate of economic growth in emerging countries. Analyzing a panel of 31 emerging countries, we find convincing evidence of scale effects which make government policies potent ... -
Selection in Unsolicited Ratings: the Case of the Sovereign Debt Market
(2017-07-07)This paper aims at contributing to the debate on whether unsolicited ratings are strategically motivated. I present evidence from the sovereign debt market that strategic motivation is not necessarily behind the patterns ... -
Teaching styles and achievement: student and teacher perspectives
(2017-04-05)We analyze the relationship of the teaching style with student achievement. As a novelty, we explore whether the e˙ect of the teaching style di˙ers when class work is reported by teachers or students. We find that who ... -
The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization
(2016-03-30)This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day. An indicator measuring the ...