Carlos Sanz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692365 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carlos Sanz |
| NOMBRES | Carlos |
| APELLIDO | Sanz |
| FIRMA | SANZ C |
| AFILIACIONES | Banco de España, Madrid, Spain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4679-581X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Dynamic Effects of Persistent Shocks
We provide evidence that many narrative shocks used by prominent literature display some persistence. We show that the two leading methods to estimate impulse responses to an independently identified shock (local projections and distributed lag models) treat persistence differently, hence identifying different objects. We propose corrections to re‐establish the equivalence between local projections and distributed lag models, providing applied re…
Trust and accountability in times of crisis
The COVID‐19 pandemic took place against the backdrop of growing political polarization and distrust in institutions. Did deficiencies in government performance further erode trust? Did citizens' ideology interfere with how they processed information on government performance? To investigate, we conducted a pre‐registered online experiment in Spain in November 2020. The treatment group was provided with information on the number of contact tracer…
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics
This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain from 1905-1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method, which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper archives. We find a strong empirical link…
Sharing the Iberian Room in a “Common Home”? The Portuguese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Spain in a Changing Europe, 1985-1994
The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) evolved from divergence to convergence in the face of European integration between 1985 and 1994. Both parties started from opposite positions since the times of the struggle against the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco, when the PCP aligned itself with the Moscow orthodox line while the PCE opted for Eurocommunist heterodoxy. Gorbachev’s theses on the “common European…
Betrayed by the Elites
We investigate whether corruption amplifies the political effects of economic crises. Using Spanish municipal-level data and a difference-in-difference strategy, we find that local unemployment shocks experienced during the Great Recession (2008–2015) increased political fragmentation. This effect was four times larger in municipalities exposed to malfeasance than in municipalities without a history of political corruption. We bolster this eviden…
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research
We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data on more than 9,000 submissions from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015–17), the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association (2012–17) and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2018), we find that all‐female‐authored papers are 3.3% points (p.p.), or 6.8%, less likely to be accepted than all‐male‐authored papers. T…
Direct democracy and government size
I study the effects of direct democracy on economic policy in a novel setting. In Spain, national law determines that municipalities follow either direct or representative democracy, depending on their population size. Using a fixed-effect regression discontinuity design, I find that direct democracy leads to a smaller government, reducing public spending by around 8 percent. Revenues decrease by a similar amount and, therefore, there is no effec…
Backing the Incumbent in Difficult Times
How do voters react to shocks that are outside the control of politicians? We address this question by studying the electoral impact of wildfires in Spain in the period 1983-2014. This context allows us to study (a) the effects of fires at different locations and times, as opposed to a specific disaster; (b) the heterogeneous effects by time relative to election day; and (c) the effects on elections for all levels of government. Using a differenc…
The Effect of Electoral Systems on Voter Turnout
I exploit the unique institutional framework of Spanish local elections, where municipalities follow different electoral systems depending on their population size, as mandated by a national law. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare turnout under closed list proportional representation and under an open list, plurality-at-large system where voters can vote for individual candidates from the same or different party-lists. I find that…
Los archivos, la intimidad de las personas y los secretos de Estado
This paper reviews the laws and norms regulating access to public documents in Spain, as well as their actual implementation in archival institutions and their consequences for historical research. Despite the liberal character of the early laws enacted in the democratic period, the publication of subsequent privacy regulations has severely curtailed access to historical documents. The vagueness and contradictions of the relevant norms, combined …
The use of forest resources in central Iberia during the Late Iron Age. Insights from the wood charcoal analysis of Pintia, a Vaccaean oppidum
Sobre la formación de un corpus cartografico - VII Conferencia Internacional de Cartografia
Nuestro propósito principal es generalizar unos conocimientos que estimamos fundamentales para el autêntico desarrollo de la cultura y que hasta ahora parecieran estar reservados al estrecho círculo de los pocos especialistas que se ocupan del estudio de esta apasionante materia, y aun afirmaríamos que los que se dedican profesionalmente a la investigación de la ciencia cartográfica no poseen un conocimiento completo de las incalculables consecue…
The Discovery of America
The Discovery of America
Novisimo conocimiento de la historia considerada como entidad sustantiva y no solo como relato
El autor de la Historia Universal tradicional, o sea, l a que todosconocemos, part e de l principi o unitari o d e l a Creació n o existenci adel Universo . Tod o cuant o e n s u ámbit o ocurri ó l e interes a recoge ren su s anales , siempr e qu e l o acontecid o s e hall e suficientement e do -cumentado o demostrado
Diario de Colon
Backing the Incumbent in Difficult Times
How do voters react to shocks that are outside the control of politicians? We address this question by studying the electoral impact of wildfires in Spain in the period 1983-2014. This context allows us to study (a) the effects of fires at different locations and times, as opposed to a specific disaster; (b) the heterogeneous effects by time relative to election day; and (c) the effects on elections for all levels of government. Using a differenc…
The Effect of Electoral Systems on Voter Turnout
I exploit the unique institutional framework of Spanish local elections, where municipalities follow different electoral systems depending on their population size, as mandated by a national law. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare turnout under closed list proportional representation and under an open list, plurality-at-large system where voters can vote for individual candidates from the same or different party-lists. I find that…
The use of forest resources in central Iberia during the Late Iron Age. Insights from the wood charcoal analysis of Pintia, a Vaccaean oppidum
Betrayed by the Elites
We investigate whether corruption amplifies the political effects of economic crises. Using Spanish municipal-level data and a difference-in-difference strategy, we find that local unemployment shocks experienced during the Great Recession (2008–2015) increased political fragmentation. This effect was four times larger in municipalities exposed to malfeasance than in municipalities without a history of political corruption. We bolster this eviden…
Direct democracy and government size
I study the effects of direct democracy on economic policy in a novel setting. In Spain, national law determines that municipalities follow either direct or representative democracy, depending on their population size. Using a fixed-effect regression discontinuity design, I find that direct democracy leads to a smaller government, reducing public spending by around 8 percent. Revenues decrease by a similar amount and, therefore, there is no effec…
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics
This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain from 1905-1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method, which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper archives. We find a strong empirical link…
Diario de Colon
The Discovery of America
The Discovery of America
Novisimo conocimiento de la historia considerada como entidad sustantiva y no solo como relato
El autor de la Historia Universal tradicional, o sea, l a que todosconocemos, part e de l principi o unitari o d e l a Creació n o existenci adel Universo . Tod o cuant o e n s u ámbit o ocurri ó l e interes a recoge ren su s anales , siempr e qu e l o acontecid o s e hall e suficientement e do -cumentado o demostrado
Sobre la formación de un corpus cartografico - VII Conferencia Internacional de Cartografia
Nuestro propósito principal es generalizar unos conocimientos que estimamos fundamentales para el autêntico desarrollo de la cultura y que hasta ahora parecieran estar reservados al estrecho círculo de los pocos especialistas que se ocupan del estudio de esta apasionante materia, y aun afirmaríamos que los que se dedican profesionalmente a la investigación de la ciencia cartográfica no poseen un conocimiento completo de las incalculables consecue…
The use of forest resources in central Iberia during the Late Iron Age. Insights from the wood charcoal analysis of Pintia, a Vaccaean oppidum
Los archivos, la intimidad de las personas y los secretos de Estado
This paper reviews the laws and norms regulating access to public documents in Spain, as well as their actual implementation in archival institutions and their consequences for historical research. Despite the liberal character of the early laws enacted in the democratic period, the publication of subsequent privacy regulations has severely curtailed access to historical documents. The vagueness and contradictions of the relevant norms, combined …
The Effect of Electoral Systems on Voter Turnout
I exploit the unique institutional framework of Spanish local elections, where municipalities follow different electoral systems depending on their population size, as mandated by a national law. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare turnout under closed list proportional representation and under an open list, plurality-at-large system where voters can vote for individual candidates from the same or different party-lists. I find that…
Direct democracy and government size
I study the effects of direct democracy on economic policy in a novel setting. In Spain, national law determines that municipalities follow either direct or representative democracy, depending on their population size. Using a fixed-effect regression discontinuity design, I find that direct democracy leads to a smaller government, reducing public spending by around 8 percent. Revenues decrease by a similar amount and, therefore, there is no effec…
Backing the Incumbent in Difficult Times
How do voters react to shocks that are outside the control of politicians? We address this question by studying the electoral impact of wildfires in Spain in the period 1983-2014. This context allows us to study (a) the effects of fires at different locations and times, as opposed to a specific disaster; (b) the heterogeneous effects by time relative to election day; and (c) the effects on elections for all levels of government. Using a differenc…
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research
We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data on more than 9,000 submissions from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015–17), the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association (2012–17) and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2018), we find that all‐female‐authored papers are 3.3% points (p.p.), or 6.8%, less likely to be accepted than all‐male‐authored papers. T…
Sharing the Iberian Room in a “Common Home”? The Portuguese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Spain in a Changing Europe, 1985-1994
The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) evolved from divergence to convergence in the face of European integration between 1985 and 1994. Both parties started from opposite positions since the times of the struggle against the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco, when the PCP aligned itself with the Moscow orthodox line while the PCE opted for Eurocommunist heterodoxy. Gorbachev’s theses on the “common European…
Betrayed by the Elites
We investigate whether corruption amplifies the political effects of economic crises. Using Spanish municipal-level data and a difference-in-difference strategy, we find that local unemployment shocks experienced during the Great Recession (2008–2015) increased political fragmentation. This effect was four times larger in municipalities exposed to malfeasance than in municipalities without a history of political corruption. We bolster this eviden…
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics
This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain from 1905-1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method, which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper archives. We find a strong empirical link…
Dynamic Effects of Persistent Shocks
We provide evidence that many narrative shocks used by prominent literature display some persistence. We show that the two leading methods to estimate impulse responses to an independently identified shock (local projections and distributed lag models) treat persistence differently, hence identifying different objects. We propose corrections to re‐establish the equivalence between local projections and distributed lag models, providing applied re…
Trust and accountability in times of crisis
The COVID‐19 pandemic took place against the backdrop of growing political polarization and distrust in institutions. Did deficiencies in government performance further erode trust? Did citizens' ideology interfere with how they processed information on government performance? To investigate, we conducted a pre‐registered online experiment in Spain in November 2020. The treatment group was provided with information on the number of contact tracer…
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