2019: An Intense and Fruitful Year for the IEB. The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) has just published its annual report detailing the activities throughout 2019. The document showcases a particularly productive year in which it solidly reflects the commitment of the IEB to its two main founding objectives: to...

This study represents an attempt to understand the U.S. firearms market – the largest in the world – in economic terms. A model of the underlying interplay of legal firearms supply and demand is a prerequisite for reliably evaluating the effectiveness of pertinent existing state and federal firearms policies, and...

While natural hazards have never been so frequent in modern history, the political economy of disaster preparation remains largely understudied. To prepare for natural disasters, local governments can adopt mitigation measures (e.g., infrastructure elevation, retrofitting, shelter construction, etc.). However, in doing so, there is a trade-off between risk reduction and...

El que avui en dia entenem ja com un fenomen d’emergència climàtica és una amenaça per al benestar de les persones arreu del món. Segons un destacat estudi de Huber, M. i Knutti, R. (2011), s’estima que, com a mínim, tres quartes parts del canvi climàtic dels seixanta últims anys...

In this paper, I empirically evaluate the effect of exposure to the Internet on Spanish attitudes towards immigrants. Exploiting a confidential, innovative survey dataset, I am able to identify a relationship between Internet access and attitudes towards immigrants at the micro (municipal) level. I address the endogeneity of Internet availability...

A les grans àrees metropolitanes, la xarxa de transport públic és essencial per a un bon funcionament de la mobilitat i difícilment té substitut. Arran de l’impacte de la COVID-19, el transport públic de l’àrea metropolitana de Barcelona afronta el repte de si serà capaç de continuar garantint la mobilitat....