Ferran A Mazaira‐font
Biographic Data
| ID | 4803611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ferran A Mazaira‐font |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ferran A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazaira‐font |
| SIGNATURE | FONT F A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barcelona School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2315-8834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Geography and regional economic growth
We analyze the role of nature and geography in determining economic and social outcomes. We propose a theoretical model relating geography and nature to economic growth, and examine that model using data from NUTS 2 European regions. By doing this, we identify the predictive power of first‐nature variables to explain regional population distribution. Then we analyze the effects of misadjustment between the actual and predicted distribution of pop…
Dynamics of intergroup conflict and attitudes towards outgroup members
Territorial conflicts are a significant feature of politics in Spain. The two most recent such processes are the cessation of violence by the terrorist group ETA and the pro-independence process in Catalonia. Both processes are likely to have affected the perception of intergroup threats, thus influencing the dynamics of intergroup conflict. This article embeds intergroup phenomena in a real context and applies theory to factual conflicts. Using …
Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses
We investigate whether weak executive federalism was beneficial or damaging for COVID-19 management in the USA. We formulate a policy response model for subnational governments, considering the national government’s preferred policy, in addition to other factors, with incomplete and with complete information. The hypotheses derived are tested using econometric techniques. Our results suggest that ideological and political biases were more influen…
The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to Covid ‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information
The COVID‐19 pandemic has become an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis. The present study has built a theoretical model and used it to develop an empirical strategy, analyzing the drivers of policy‐response agility during the outbreak. Our empirical results show that national policy responses were delayed, both by government expectations of the healthcare system capacity and by expectations that any hard measures used to manage the…
Dynamics of intergroup conflict and attitudes towards outgroup members
Territorial conflicts are a significant feature of politics in Spain. The two most recent such processes are the cessation of violence by the terrorist group ETA and the pro-independence process in Catalonia. Both processes are likely to have affected the perception of intergroup threats, thus influencing the dynamics of intergroup conflict. This article embeds intergroup phenomena in a real context and applies theory to factual conflicts. Using …
Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses
We investigate whether weak executive federalism was beneficial or damaging for COVID-19 management in the USA. We formulate a policy response model for subnational governments, considering the national government’s preferred policy, in addition to other factors, with incomplete and with complete information. The hypotheses derived are tested using econometric techniques. Our results suggest that ideological and political biases were more influen…
The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to Covid ‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information
The COVID‐19 pandemic has become an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis. The present study has built a theoretical model and used it to develop an empirical strategy, analyzing the drivers of policy‐response agility during the outbreak. Our empirical results show that national policy responses were delayed, both by government expectations of the healthcare system capacity and by expectations that any hard measures used to manage the…
Geography and regional economic growth
We analyze the role of nature and geography in determining economic and social outcomes. We propose a theoretical model relating geography and nature to economic growth, and examine that model using data from NUTS 2 European regions. By doing this, we identify the predictive power of first‐nature variables to explain regional population distribution. Then we analyze the effects of misadjustment between the actual and predicted distribution of pop…
Dynamics of intergroup conflict and attitudes towards outgroup members
Territorial conflicts are a significant feature of politics in Spain. The two most recent such processes are the cessation of violence by the terrorist group ETA and the pro-independence process in Catalonia. Both processes are likely to have affected the perception of intergroup threats, thus influencing the dynamics of intergroup conflict. This article embeds intergroup phenomena in a real context and applies theory to factual conflicts. Using …
Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses
We investigate whether weak executive federalism was beneficial or damaging for COVID-19 management in the USA. We formulate a policy response model for subnational governments, considering the national government’s preferred policy, in addition to other factors, with incomplete and with complete information. The hypotheses derived are tested using econometric techniques. Our results suggest that ideological and political biases were more influen…
Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 work) · Business (1 work)