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Why Do Some People Purchase a Private Health Insurance?
Why do some people buy private health insurance when there is a national system of free health services? This article develops a theoretical model and tests its main prediction with data from the UK. The model predicts that if people have better information than...
Effectiveness of Temporary Policies Aimed at Reducing Petrol Consumption
In late February 2011, the government announced a set of measures to reduce fuel consumption. His forecast was that it fell by 15%. A study based on publicly available information detected that these measures (reduction of prices of train...
Factors Affecting Geographic Distribution of Populations
Traditionally, economic theory explains population distribution according to the physical distance from the centres of interest. One study proposes a new methodology which introduces the idea of subjective distance, which also takes into account other variables. In...
On the Economics of Happiness and Climate Change
A doctoral thesis analyzes climate change impacts and politics from the perspective of happiness. For the purpose, it takes the case of floods of varying intensity as examples of extreme climate events and compares the decrease in income resulting from the current crisis with...
Choosing partners to innovate
A novel argument assesses that the success of a collaborative partnership in R&D agreements depends on its length and on identifying suitable efficient combinations of the initial technological endowments of partners. As the time horizon of the agreement expands, the probability of identifying a...
