Understanding preference formation in a matching market

We analyze the role of formal and informal information gathering in students' preference formation. We analyzed this role in the college admission process using Spanish individual data. We introduce students' risk aversion and information costs on the standard college admission problem. Then, we model the students' list formation as a two-stage procedure. In first stage, students must decide whether they gather information or not about a college. In the second stage, they give their preferred list to the matching office. The observed changes in preferences suggest that information gathering is important in the last two months of the process and that students with less ex-ante information are more affected by these changes

"Let the memories begin". The family photo album and contemporary Spanish autobiography

This article explores the interactions between photography and self-writing in contemporary Spanish autobiography. Through the analysis of autobiographies by Carmen Martín Gaite and Paloma Díaz-Mas, the presence of the family album is revealed as a structural device and as an essential constituent of a dialogue between image and word that transcends the boundaries of Spanish autobiographical writing towards the constitution of experimental hybrid texts, or «imagetext», according to the concept created by W. J. T. Mitchell.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Donde se forman las expediciones definitivas : El hombre perdido (1947) y las novelas de la nebulosa de Ramón Gómez de la Serna

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Elaboración de un business plan para la creación de una empresa de refit y mantenimiento náutico en el rango de las esloras medias.

Este trabajo consiste en hacer un Business Plan para el análisis de la viabilidad de una empresa que se dedique al refit náutico, es decir, la gestión de proyectos, principalmente de reforma como también de mantenimiento básico. Actualmente, en el sector de la náutica de recreo se pueden distinguir tres grandes grupos de embarcaciones: las pequeñas con eslora de hasta 10-15 metros, las de eslora media entre 15 y 30 metros y por último los denominados megayates o embarcaciones de gran eslora, de más de 30 metros. Todas estas embarcaciones necesitan de un mantenimiento exhaustivo para su funcionamiento óptimo y hay empresas en lugares específicos para realizar dichas tareas. Hay que hacer hincapié en la importancia de una correcta gestión del proyecto de reforma y/o mantenimiento dado que si no una reforma entra en conflicto con la posterior, es mas en ocasiones es recomendable planificar adecuadamente para que no se repitan procesos de montaje y desmontaje al acceder a los sistemas de la embarcación de modo que se puedan ahorrar costes

Can we measure hospital quality from physicians' choices?

In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology for ranking hospitals based on the choices of Medical School graduates over hospital training vacancies. Our methodology is therefore a revealed preference approach. Our methodology for measuring relative hospital quality has the following desirable properties: a) robust to manipulation from hospital administrators; b) conditional on having enough observations, it allows for differences in quality across specialties within a hospital; c) inexpensive in terms of data requirements, d) not subject to selection bias from patients nor hospital screening of patients; and e) unlike other rankings based on experts' evaluations, it does not require physicians to provide a complete ranking of all hospitals. We apply our methodology to the Spanish case and find, among other results, the following: First, the probability of choosing the best hospital relative to the worst hospital is statistically significantly different from zero. Second, physicians value proximity and nearby hospitals are seen as more substitutable. Third, observable time-invariant city characteristics are unrelated to results. Finally, our estimates for physicians' hospital valuations are significantly correlated to more traditional hospital quality measures