Growing like Spain: 1995-2007
Manuel García-Santana, Enrique Moral-Betino, Josep Pijoan-Mas and Roberto Ramos show that negative TFP growth was caused by the increase in within-industry misallocation of production factors.
Your language or mine?
How is individual behavior affected by the emotional attachment to one’s own language? Do individuals change their economic decisions because of the identification they experience with their language? And if so, how should policies be designed to enhance economic welfare? Ramon Caminal and Antonio Di Paolo take two important steps to answer these crucial questions.
Does securities trading by banks crowd out lending?
Puriya Abbassi, Rajkamal Iyer, José-Luis Peydró and Francesc R. Tous find that banks with higher trading expertise increase their investments in securities and decrease their lending during a crisis.
Too Close Collaboration Between Students Reduces Overall Performance: Classroom Evidence On The Effects Of Social Interactions
Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari have been awarded the RES Prize for their paper, “Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom”
