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Las “ciudades inteligentes” (smart cities) tienen en promedio mayores tasas de creación de empresas
This paper investigates the relationship between the implementation of smart city initiatives and the number of new firms, paying special attention to the rates of green and digital entrepreneurship as smart cities tend to follow sustainable and/or digital orientations. We find evidence of a positive (causal) relation between smart city initiatives and entrepreneurship rates in a sample of Belgian municipalities, particularly when these initiatives follow a bottom-up approach and/or the level of implementation is high. In contrast, having sustainable and/or digital orientations in smart city initiatives does not generally make any difference in the rates of entrepreneurship, the exception being the digital rates in large municipalities. These results suggest that the smart city initiatives may be acting as a local entrepreneurship-supporting policy. They also support the view that smart cities are mainly (but not only) associated with technological developments (in large cities).
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Género, diversidad profesional de equipos de I+D y generación de patentes: una aplicación a empresas españolas
This paper studies the relationship between gender and occupational diversity in R&D teams and their capacity to generate patents. It is based on an extensive sample of 4,085 firms from the Spanish Community Innovation Survey over the 2004‒2014 period. Applying an exponential Poisson regression that controls for endogeneity through the generalised method of moments, the empirical results show that gender diversity has an ambiguous effect. Although it affects patents negatively, this impact is non-significant for patents with international protection. Patent generation is however positively affected by the diversity of categories in the R&D teams. Hence, the key question is not gender per se but rather the occupational status of the R&D teams.
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¿Son efectivas las zonas de bajas emisiones que se están aplicando masivamente en las ciudades europeas?
The great weight that the car has as a means of mobility in large cities generates significant negative externalities both in terms of pollution and congestion. The goal of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of low emission zones (LEZs) and to compare it with the existing results in literature on the effectiveness of urban tolls. First, we build up a theoretical model that departs from De Borger and Proost (2012), who study the effects of urban tolls on congestion, by incorporating pollution into the analysis and LEZs as an alternative (quantity-based) policy measure. Then we perform an econometric analysis taking advantage of a unique and extremely original panel of large European urban areas over the period 2008-2016, using data on congestion from TomTom and data on pollution (PM2.5) from environmental sciences. We conclude that LEZs can curb pollution. They are particularly effective in highly polluted cities, when they are applied to a wide area of the city, and/or when they are stringent in the type of restricted vehicles. Instead, LEZs are ineffective in mitigating congestion. This is a very relevant result, given the growing importance of LEZs in Europe.
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Cómo potenciar el modelo del Tecnoparc
El Clúster TIC Catalunya Sud se autodefine "como una asociación impulsada por el sector público y liderada por el sector privado, con el apoyo de la universidad Rovira i Virgili, que tiene como objetivo promover y contribuir a la competitividad del sector de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en el Camp de Tarragona y en las Terres de l'Ebre". La experiencia del Tecnoparc es un buen ejemplo del enorme potencial, aún en parte por explotar. "El modelo Tecnoparc funciona", destaca Sergi Novo, al frente del Clúster.
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2nd URV Workshop on Game Theory
Workshop objectives
This workshop provides an opportunity to all those interested in game theory.
It is a one-day workshop starting at 9 a.m., with 4 sessions about resource allocation, networks, NTU, matching & assignment.
The speakers of the workshop will be (in alphabetical order): Andrés Carvajal, Pere Calleja - Francesc Llerena, Bas Dietzenbacher, Arantza Estévez, Elena Iñarra, Bettina Klaus, László Á. Kózcy, Jordi Massó, William Thomson, Cori Vilella - José Manuel Giménez-Gómez, and Shmuel Zamir.
As this workshop intends to create a network among researchers working on game theory, participation without either paper presentation or poster is also encouraged. In this case, please send us an e-mail indicating your interest in attending the workshop (before the end of March, for the sake of organizing).
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ECO-SOS & Dept. Economics Seminar Series: Renaud Foucart
El día 15 de febrero a las 13:15h via Teams Renaud Foucart (U.Lancaster) presentará su documento de trabajo "Rituals of Reason: A Choice-Based Approach to the Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems"
El formato de la presentación será tipo conferencia (25-30 min + preguntas finales).
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ECO-SOS & Dept. Economics Seminar Series: Luke Hartigan
El día 18 de enero a las 11:00h via Teams Luke Hartigan (U.Sidney) presentará su documento de trabajo "Monitoring and Nowcasting Activity using a Combination of Partial Indicators"
El formato de la presentación será tipo conferencia (25-30 min + preguntas finales).
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3rd ECO-SOS Doctorials, 15 diciembre 2021
ECO-SOS Doctorials es un workshop diseñado para mejorar la formación de los estudiantes de doctorado y difundir sus actividades de investigación. En concreto, estos pueden presentar trabajos estándar (presentación de 20 minutos) e ideas de investigación (presentación de 5 minutos). Además, también hay una presentación de un/una investigador/a senior de ECO-SOS con el objetivo de explicar su investigación. Este acto tiene lugar dos veces al año: antes del PhD Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE), en diciembre, para que sirva como entrenamiento para los estudiantes que participen, y antes del verano, también como entrenamiento antes del periodo en que se programan la mayoría de congresos y workshops. El 3rd ECO-SOS Doctorials se celebrará el próximo 15 de diciembre en la Facultad de Economía y Empresa de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili, en Reus. En esta edición contaremos con 7 estudiantes de doctorado que presentarán su investigación y tendremos una presentación final "European Radical Right Populist Parties in Government: Macroeconomic Impact" por parte de Montserrat Ferré, miembro senior de ECO-SOS.
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ECO-SOS & Dept. Economics Seminar Series: Jesús López-Rodríguez
El día 14 de diciembre a las 13:15h via Teams Jesús López-Rodríguez (U.Coruña) presentará su documento de trabajo "Fiscal choices across Spanish municipalities: Do agglomeration economies matter?"
El formato de la presentación será tipo conferencia (25-30 min + preguntas finales).
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3rd ECO-SOS Workshop on Economics and Sustainability, postponed to May 12 2023
The Research Centre on Economics and Sustainability (ECO-SOS) is a research centre created in 2010 as CREIP (Research Centre in Industrial and Public Economics), that recently moved to sustainability issues, in line with research interests of its members. Specifically, ECO-SOS studies the connection between sustainability and the following areas of interest: environmental and climate economics, health economics, regional and urban economics, education and labor market business and innovation, energy and natural resources, industrial organization, economic policy, game theory and environmental conflicts, and transport and tourism.