Phone: +34 91 338
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E-mail: bover@bde.es
Welcome to the personal Web page of Olympia
Bover Hidiroglu. She is an economist at the Research Division of the Banco de
España since 1991. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at
Curriculum Vitae
Papers
Survey of Household Finances (EFF)
Recent Discussions
Links
Labour
Economics
"House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence" (with J. F. Jimeno). Banco de España Working Paper 0705, 2007.
"Paro y prestaciones: nuevos resultados para España" (with M.Arellano and S.Bentolila). Appeared in: J.Pérez, C.Sebastián, and P.Tedde (eds.): Políticas, Mercados e Instituciones Económicas, Estudios en Homenaje a Luis Ángel Rojo, Volume 1, Editorial Complutense, Madrid, 2004.
Comment on "Labor Market
Institutions in a Changing World" by G.Bertola, Moneda y Crédito, 2004,
218.
"Another Look at Unemployment
Duration: Exit to a Permanent vs. a Temporary Job" (with R. Gómez), Investigaciones
Económicas, 28, 2004, 285-314. Awarded the prize for the best article
published in the journal in 2004 and 2005.
"The Distribution of Earnings in Spain During
the 1980s: The Effects of Skill, Unemployment, and Union Power" (with M. Arellano and
"Unemployment Duration, Benefit Duration, and
the Business Cycle" (with M. Arellano and
"Labor Market Outliers: Lessons from Portugal
and Spain"
(with P. García-Perea and P. Portugal), Economic Policy, October 2000,
381-428.
"Female Labour Force Participation in
the 1980's: The Case of Spain" (with M. Arellano), Investigaciones Económicas, 19, 1995,
171-194.
"Cambios en la composición del empleo y actividad laboral femenina", Papeles de Economía Española, 1997, 38-51.
"Relaxing Intertemporal Separability:
A Rational Habits Model of Labour Supply Estimated from Panel Data", Journal of Labor
Economics, 9, 1991, 85-100.
"Estimating Intertemporal Labour
Supply Elasticities Using Structural Models", The Economic Journal, 99, 1989,
1026-1039.
Migration
"Learning About
Migration Decisions From the Migrants" (with M. Arellano), Journal of
Population Economics, 15, 2002, 357-380. Awarded the Kuznets Prize for the best article published in the Journal
of Population Economics during the period 2001-2003.
"Migration in Spain: Historical Background and
Current Trends" (with P. Velilla), (Earlier
version: IZA Discussion Paper no. 88). Forthcoming in: K. Zimmermann (ed.): European
Migration: What Do We Know?,
CEPR and
"Regional Migration in Spain: The Effect of
Personal Characteristics and of Unemployment, Wage and House Price Differentials
using Pooled Cross-Sections" (with P. Antolín), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,
1997, 215-235.
House Prices. Hedonics
"Hedonic House Prices Without Characteristics:
The Case of New Multiunit Housing" (with P. Velilla), ECB Working Paper no.
117, and CEPR Discussion Paper no. 3161, January 2002 (earlier version: Banco de España, Estudios Económicos no. 73,
2001).
"Quality-adjusted prices: hedonic
methods and implications for national accounts" (with M. Izquierdo), Investigaciones
Económicas, 27, 2003, 199-238.
"An Empirical Model of House Prices
in Spain (1976-1991)", Bank of
"Housing, Wages and
Money Demand
"Are There Economies of Scale in the Demand for
Money by Firms? Some Panel Data Estimates" (with N. Watson), Journal of Monetary
Economics, 52, 2005, 1569-1589.
Econometrics
"Autoregressive Models with Sample Selectivity
for Panel Data" (with M. Arellano and
J. M. Labeaga). In C. Hsiao, K. Lahiri, L-F. Lee, and H. Pesaran
(eds.): Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models,
Chapter 2,
"Estimating Dynamic Limited Dependent Variable
Models from Panel Data" (with M. Arellano), Investigaciones Económicas, 21, 1997,
141-165.
"Another Look at the Instrumental-Variable
Estimation of Error-Components Models" (with M. Arellano), Journal of
Econometrics, 68, 1995, 29-51.
"La Econometría de Datos de Panel" (with M. Arellano), Investigaciones Económicas, 14, 1990, 3-45.
"Estimating
Contaminated Limited Dependent Variable Models" (with M. Arellano),
Applied Economics Discussion Paper 11, IES,
Consumption and Wealth
"Wealth
Inequality and Household Structure: US vs. Spain", CEPR Discussion Paper No.
6680, Banco de
España Working Paper 0804, 2008, forthcoming in the Review of Income and Wealth.
"Wealth Effects
on Consumption: Microeconometric Estimates from a New Survey of Household
Finances", CEPR
Discussion Paper No. 5874, Banco de España Working
Paper 0522, 2005. Additional results.
"Durable Consumption and House Purchases:
Evidence from Spanish Panel Data" (with A. Estrada), Bank of
Comment on "Intertemporal
Consumer Behaviour under Structural Changes in Income" by C. Winder and F.
Palm, Econometric
Reviews, 8, 1989, 89-91.
"Liquidity
Constraints and Aggregation in the Consumption Function under Uncertainty"
(with J. Muellbauer), Applied Economics Discussion Paper 12,
Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF) 2005: link to the data at Banco de España.
Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF) 2002: link to the data at Banco de España.
"The
Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF): Description and Methods of the 2005
Wave", Banco de España Occasional Paper 0803, 2008.
"The
Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF): Description and Methods of the 2002
Wave", Banco de España Occasional Paper 0409, 2004.
"The Dynamics of Household Income and Wealth:
Results from the Panel of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF)
2002-2005",
Banco de España Occasional Paper 0810, 2008.
"The
Wealth of Spanish Households: A Microeconomic Comparison with the United
States, Italy and the United Kingdom" (with C. Martínez-Carrascal
and P. Velilla), Economic Bulletin, Banco de España, July 2005.
"Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF)", Revista Índice, INE and UAM, November 2005.
Comments on ''Cash-on-Hand
and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor
Market'' by Card, Chetty, and Weber, Banco de Portugal Conference on
Unemployment, Quinta do Lago
Comments on
''Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature
Women'' by Crespo and Mira, COSME Conference,
Banco de España
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Nuffield College, Economics, Ff
SCF, Bibliog
Kuznets Prize
CEPR
IZA
Conference on the Economics of
Immigration,
Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, 25-26 April 2003.
Conference
on Household Finances and Housing Wealth,
Banco
Conference on
Household Finances and Macroeconomics, Banco de España, Madrid, 15-16
October 2009.