PROJECT SEJ 2005-08783-C04 WEBPAGE
“MICROECONOMETRIC
ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL AGENTS’ BEHAVIOR
AND ITS FISCAL
AND WELFARE IMPLICATIONS”
Funding
agency: from the Spanish Ministry of
Education and Science
TEAMS
n
Universitat Illes Balears.
PI: Amedeo Spadaro
n
UNED and
FEDEA. PI: JM Labeaga
n
Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. PI: Angel López
n
Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
PI and project coordinator: Sergi Jiménez
AIM
In this
project we study consumers’ behaviour and their relation to institutions from
the empirical, theoretical and methodological points of view.
OBJECTIVES
i) to extend the understanding of
the consumers’ behaviour by means of the design and estimation of static and
dynamic realistic theoretical models;
ii) to propose new methods for the estimation of the
specifications derived from the theoretical models;
iii) to employ the results obtained for the proposal and
evaluation of economic and fiscal policies;
iv) to improve the understanding of the effects derived from the
taxes and redistribution from a perspective of efficiency and equity, all this
including dynamic in the models with individual decisions endogenous with
respect to the redistribution levels;
v) to accommodate the design of the empirical instruments for
improving the analysis of different redistributive models, from the perspective
of the theory of optimal taxation.
MAIN LINES OF RESEARCH
1. Demand
of goods and intertemporal consumption
1.1. Adiction and Habits:
implications for inequality, income and self-employment
1.2. Housing demand
1.3. Other services (including lotteries!!)
2. Labor
supply: static and dynamic model and their implication on fertility and welfare
2.1. Individual labor supply: multinomial models and
their application in microsimulation models.
2.2. The effect of unemployment benefits in Labor
Supply.
2.3. Retirement decisions under uncertainty
(employment, health, other).
2.4. Health and Labor Supply
2.5. Labor Supply and wage/gender discrimination.
2.6. Intertemporal Labor
supply in consumption-leisure models: Evidence for some puzzles.
3. The
Link between health and income inequality
4. Policy
evaluation: microsimulation models.
4.1. Theory
4.2. Development and utilization of microsimulation models.
ACTIVITIES
The
project has established an annual workshop in order to disseminate research and
increase interaction from the members of the project.
2006
WORKSHOP: FORMENTERA, OCTOBER 12-14. [link to program]
Members
of the team are encouraged to present their work at international conferences
and workshops:
2006 Examples: EEA,
ESEM, XXXV SAE, AES, Panel Data Conference.
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
- Pilar García Gómez and Ángel López Nicolás. "Health
Shocks, Employment and Income in the Spanish Labour Market". Health
Economics (2006). Vol 15, pp. 997-1009.
DOI:10.1002/hec.1151
- Andrew
M. Jones and Ángel López Nicolás "Allowing for Individual Heterogeneity in the Decomposition
of Measures of Socioeconomic Inequality in Health.".
Journal of Economic Inequality (2006). DOI: 10.1007/s10888-005-9019-z
- Cristina
Hernández Quevedo,
Andrew M. Jones, Ángel López
Nicolás and Nigel Rice "Socioeconomic inequalities in health: a
comparative longitudinal analysis using the European Community Household
Panel". Social Science and Medicine. (2006) Vol
63(5), pp. 1246-61.
- Ángel López Nicolás and Jaime Pinilla Rodríguez
"Policies for the Prevention of Cigarette Consumption: The Case of Spain".
International Journal of Consumer Studies. (2006). Vol. 30 (3), pp.
271–277
- Pilar García Gómez. y Ángel López Nicolás. Socio-Economic
Inequalities in Health in Catalonia. Hacienda Pública Española
(2005). Vol. 175-4, pp. 103-122
·
Sergi Jiménez-Martín
y A. Ladrón de Guevara “Modeling consumption patterns in the
attribute space: theory and evidence of hybrid behavior”
(con A. Ladrón de Guevara), 2006, International
Journal of Research in Marketing, de próxima publicación
·
Sergi Jiménez-Martín
y A. Sánchez-Martín, “An evaluation of the life-cycle
effects of minimum pensions on retirement behavior”,
con A. Sánchez, WP UPF 715, 2003 (revised 2006). Journal of Applied Econometrics, de próxima publicación.
·
Sergi Jiménez,
J.M. Labeaga y Cristina Vilaplana, “A sequential model for older workers’ labor transitions after a
health shock”, (), Health Economics 15(9). 2006
·
Sergi Jiménez-Martín,
"Strike Outcomes and Wage Settlements in Spain" 2006, Labour, 20(4), 673-698
·
Sergi Jiménez-Martín,
“Evaluating the Labor Supply effects of Alternative Reforms of the Spanish
Pension System”, Moneda y Crédito.
222, 271-312, 2006
·
Michele Boldrin y Sergi Jiménez-Martín,
“Evaluating Spanish Pension Expenditure Under
Alternative Reform Scenarios”, con M. Boldrin, WP UPF
652, 2002. De próxima publicación en un volumen de Chicago University press (esperado
2007).
·
Hugo Benítez-Silva, Frank Heiland at Florida State University, "Early Claiming of Social Security Benefits and Labor Supply Behavior of Older Americans." Accepted for publication in Applied Economics.
·
Hugo Benítez-Silva, Deb Dwyer, Wayne-Roy Gayle, and Tom Muench
"Expectations in Micro Data: Rationality Revisited." Version of November 23, 2006.
·
Hugo Benítez-Silva, "The Educated Russian's Curse: Returns
to Education in the Russian Federation during the 1990s" LABOUR: Review of Labour
Economics and Industrial Relations. Vol. 21(1) 1-41, 2007. (Leading Article
in the Issue)
·
Hugo Benítez-Silva y Frank Heiland, "The
Social Security Earnings Test and Work Incentives," Accepted for
publication by the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).
Version of December 12, 2006.
·
Raul González (UPF) “From the Lab to the Market” Academy of Management, 2006 (Best conference paper).
·
García Gómez
P y López Nicolás A (2006) Health
shocks, employment and income in the Spanish Labour market. Health Economics,
15(9): 997-1009
·
García Gómez P y López Casasnovas
G (2006). Hipótesis sobre inmigración y bienestar. Moneda y Crédito, 222:
79-123
·
García Gómez P (2006). Educación y estilo
de vida, mecanismos para mejorar el estado de salud. Gestión Clínica y
Sanitaria, 30: 58
·
García Gómez P, González Raya S y Sáez M
(2006) Immigració i Estat
de Benestar: els serveis sanitaris a Catalunya. Nota d’Economia, 86: 65-72
·
Silviano Esteve, Mariluz Marco y María Rochina, "A
competing Risks Analysis of Strike Duration in Spain: Agreement and Non-Agreement Outcomes", en la Revista de Economía Laboral, 3, (2006),
14-45
·
García Gómez P (2006) Evaluación de un
Programa de Atención Dental Público: PADI en el País Vasco. Ekonomiaz,
60: 62-89
·
Jaume Garcia y Plácido Rodríguez 'The Demand for Football Pools in Spain: The Role of Price, Prizes and the Composition of the
Coupon", Journal of Sports Economics, forthcoming, 2007.
·
Jaume Garcia y Climent Quintana,"The
Evolution of Adult Height in Europe: A Brief
Note", Departament Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, W.P. 1002, 2007 (with C. Quintana) (accepted with minor revisions in
Economics and Human Biology)
·
Jaume Garcia y Plácido Rodríguez 'The Determinants of Audience for Spanish
Football: A First Approach", in J. García, P. Rodríguez and S. Késenne (eds.), Sport Economics After
Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg,
forthcoming, 2007.
·
Jaume Garcia y Climent Quintana, 'Obesity,
Employment and Wages in Europe', in J. Cawley (ed.),
Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, forthcoming, 2007.
·
Michele Boldrin, AGAINST INTELLECTUAL MONOPOLY, forthcoming Cambridge
Univ Press (Libro).
·
Michele Boldrin y David Levine, "Intellectual Property and the
Efficient Allocation of Social Surplus from Innovations" (with David K
Levine) in PROPERTY RIGHTS DYNAMICS IN THIRD MILLENIUM: A LAW AND ECONOMICS
PERSPECTIVE; Edited by Donatella Porrini
and Giovanni Ramello, London, Routledge, 2006
·
Michele Boldrin y David Levine, "Intellectual Property or
Intellectual Monopoly?" With David K. Levine, Yale Economic Review, Fall 2006.
·
Michele Boldrin y David Levine, "Perfectly Competitive
Innovation", with D.K. Levine, forthcoming, Journal of Monetary Economics