Documentos de trabajo

Resumen. Con el aumento de la infertilidad sin precedentes, la demanda de las técnicas de reproducción asistida no ha dejado de... Seguir leyendo

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Digital transformation plays an increasingly important role in the growth and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), yet little is known regarding spatial inequalities in their adoption of advanced digital technologies. Using recent data from the Flash Eurobarometer 486, we study the spatial patterns of drivers for the implementation of... Seguir leyendo

Resumen: La juventud es una prioridad para las políticas públicas que se dirigen al fortalecimiento de la cohesión social y a la defensa de la justicia inter-generacional en la Unión Europea. Sin embargo, durante los últimos veinte años, esta prioridad no siempre se ha plasmado en medidas efectivas para garantizar la inserción socio-laboral de todas las personas jóvenes; al... Seguir leyendo

The present study addresses the construction of the altruistic rhetoric as a necessary condition for the viability of business models built on egg donation. Through 14 semi-structured interviews carried out with staff of fertility clinics that offer treatments with oocyte donation, this research analyses the factors operating in the process of commercialization of the donor's body, regarding... Seguir leyendo

Este trabajo pretende detectar los factores clave a la hora de incentivar la comunicación de la ciencia por la comunidad científica. Se parte de una serie de datos recogidos a través de encuesta a científicos en España, Holanda, Austria y otros países por el proyecto europeo de investigación H2020 TRESCA (Trustworthy, Reliable and Engaging Scientific Communication Approaches). Los datos se... Seguir leyendo

Resumen: En este trabajo se examina el panorama de la innovación en las PYMES, con especial énfasis en aquellas que operan en las cuatro Áreas de la estrategia RIS 3 de la Comunidad de Madrid.  El propósito consiste en analizar las posibilidades de transferencias de conocimiento y cooperación de dichas empresas con los Organismos Públicos de Investigación (OPIS).  Basándonos... Seguir leyendo

Abstract: The social and economic factors leading to selfless acts such as charitable donations have been a central concern in the social sciences. We contribute to this scholarship with an artefactual field experiment in Peru where subjects anonymously decide how much of their endowment they freely donate to the Peruvian government. The standard rational choice model and... Seguir leyendo

Abstract: A recent experimental literature has documented that people are (sometimes) asymmetric updaters: Good news are over-weighted, relative to bad news. We contribute to this literature with a novel experimental test of a potential mechanism of asymmetric updating, that is, that people recall better the positive than the negative evidence. In our design, this account... Seguir leyendo

Abstract: Economic theories of optimism provide different rationales for the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, and a recent empirical literature has tested some of them, with mixed results. We contribute to this literature with a novel experimental test of two mechanisms, according to which optimism is respectively predicted when (1) the potential material losses due to the... Seguir leyendo

Abstract: This study contributes to the recent experimental literature addressing the role of team formation in overcoming coordination failure in weakest-link games. We investigate the endogenous formation of teams in fixed neighborhoods in which it is not possible to exclude players from influencing the weakest-link. Our experimental results show that team formation helps in... Seguir leyendo