Browsing Articles by Author "Agnese, Pablo"
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Bubble economics and structural change: the cases of Spain and France compared
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana (Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2018)This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. ... -
La deslocalització de serveis: una perspectiva global i local
Ricart i Costa, Joan Enric; Agnese, Pablo (Nota d'Economia, 2008) -
Deslocalizaciones y productividad. ¿Una oportunidad para España?
Agnese, Pablo; Ricart, Joan Enric (Papeles de Economía Española, 2012)En este artículo describimos las últimas tendencias en materia de deslocalizaciones a nivel mundial y en particular para el caso español. De esta manera, hacemos referencia a los distintos sectores ... -
Employment effects of offshoring across sectors and occupations in Japan
Agnese, Pablo (Asian Economic Journal, 2012)In the case of Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on firm-level data and delve into the productivity effects and the skill upgrading between skilled and unskilled workers. Here, we carry ... -
Globalization and the attitudes toward higher education: a policy discussion
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcova, Jana (INFER Policy Brief Series, 2018)We study how attitudes toward higher education may affect labor market outcomes in the context of globalization. In particular, we find that different educational attitudes are responsible for differences ... -
Globalization, welfare, and the attitudes toward higher education
Hromcová, Jana; Agnese, Pablo (Economic Modelling, 2019)In this paper we study how the attitudes toward higher education may affect labor market outcomes in the context of globalization. In particular, we show that different educational attitudes are responsible ... -
Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana (Economic Modelling, 2016)We analyze the effects of low-skill offshoring on welfare. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria we discuss three alternative policies that could potentially outweigh the ... -
More alike than different: the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. (IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012)Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument ... -
Offshoring, Welfare, and Flexibility in the Context of US Protectionism
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana (International Economic Journal, 2021)We reexamine the effects of offshoring in the US economy in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. We use a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills while distinguishing between ... -
On blockchains, cryptos, and media of exchange. Not there (yet)
Agnese, Pablo (International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2021)Ever since the inception of the blockchain technology and bitcoin (Nakamoto, 2009), the first and foremost of so-called cryptocurrencies, the prospect within the 'crypto' community has been one of growing ... -
The driving forces behind the falling labour share and persistent unemployment in Japan
Agnese, Pablo; Sala, Hector (Pacific Economic Review, 2011)Like in most advanced countries, the labour income share in Japan has been falling since the mid-1970s. However, in contrast to other advanced economies, Japan experienced an exceptional recessive period ... -
The fading 1990s in Japan: driving forces behind the unemployment upsurge
Agnese, Pablo; Sala, Hector (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2009)This paper sheds new light on the causes of the unemployment upsurge in Japan during the “fading 1990s”, an unprecedented period of structural crisis. We estimate a labor market model and identify the ... -
To comply or not to comply? How a UEFA wage-to-revenue requirement might affect the sport and managerial performance of soccer clubs
Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Agnese, Pablo (Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023)This paper evaluates the soccer clubs' compliance with a potential wage-to-revenue requirement by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and studies the effect on sport achievements resulting ... -
Too hot and too close. Bitcoin and gold dynamics during COVID times
Agnese, Pablo (Studies in Economics and Finance, 2023)Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the connectedness between bitcoin (BTC) and other traditional assets (e.g. metals) in times of financial turbulence like the COVID pandemic. The purpose is to see to ... -
Unemployment in Japan: a look at the lost decade
Agnese, Pablo; Sala, Hector (Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, 2008)The ‘lost decade’ in Japan was a period of steep surge in unemployment. It started in 1991 with the unemployment rate at 2.1%, and ended in 2002 when it reached a historical maximum of 5.5%. To assess ...