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Fair competition design
We study the impact of two basic principles of fairness on the structure of competition systems and perform our analysis by focusing on sports competitions. The first principle states that equally strong players should ... -
La financiación exterior del desarrollo industrial español a través del IEME
El objetivo central del trabajo es, en primer lugar, reconstruir las grandes cifras del capital exterior que contribuyó a la financiación del desarrollo industrial de España entre 1950 y 1982; y, en segundo lugar, estudiar ... -
La financiación sanitaria autonómica. Bases para una propuesta
Se analizan las novedades recientes en el debate sobre financiación territorial sanitaria: el nuevo modelo de financiación autonómica para el quinquenio 1997-2001, y la nueva RAWP, fórmula inglesa de reparto financiero ... -
Firm entry under financial frictions
Introducing both endogenous firm entry and a requirement for external finance in a general-equilibrium model leads to three main results. First, the financial constraint has contractionary effects on both equity investment ... -
Fiscal decentralization and internal conflict: an empirical investigation
This paper examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and internal conflict in 77 countries during the period 1972-2000. The results show that the devolution of scal power to subnational tiers of government ... -
Fiscal policy and growth revisited: the case of the Spanish regions
This paper presents an assessment of the effects of fiscal policy on economic growth. Starting from a theoretical model in which only those fiscal policy instruments presumed to strictly influence the production process ... -
Foreign direct investment and trade: a causality analysis
We analyse in this paper the relationship between outward FDI and exports, with Spanish quarterly data for the period 1977-1992. The empirical methodology makes use of Granger-causality tests in a cointegration framework, ... -
Freedom of choice and conflict resolution
This work is an output of my participation in the project 'Procedural Approaches to Conflict Resolution', coordinated by Professor Matthias Raith. The main goal of the project was making an interdisciplinary approach to ... -
Freedom of choice: the leximax criterion in economic environments
Many recent works have investigated the question of extending a preference over a set of alternatives to its power set, as a way to provide a formal representation of the notion of freedom of choice. In general, the results ... -
Freedom of choice: the leximax criterion in the infinite case
Many recent works have investigated the problem of extending a preference over a set of alternatives to its power set, in an attempt to provide a formal representation of the notion of freedom of choice. In general, results ... -
A further generalization of the Solow growth model: the role of the public sector
We develop in this paper an augmented version of the Solow (1956) growth model, including the role of government. The model leads to a non-monotonic relationship between the rate of growth of per capita output and government ... -
Gender bias in sex ratio at birth: the case of India
A deeply-rooted preference for sons may decrease the relative number of female births. Though there are variables that may help to erode the couple's preference for sons, these same variables may also increase the availability ... -
A general framework for the macroeconomic analysis of monetary unions
The objective of this paper is to develop a general framework for the macroeconomic modelling of monetary unions, which could be useful for policy analysis, as well as for teaching purposes. Our starting point will be the ... -
Geografía y dinámica de la desigualdad regional en la Unión Europea
¿Son permanentes o temporales los desequilibrios de renta entre regiones? El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la evolución de la desigualdad regional en renta por habitante en la Unión Europea en el período 1977-1999. ... -
The great moderation of inflation: a structural analysis of recent U.S. monetary business cycles
U.S. inflation has experienced a great moderation in the last two decades. This paper examines the factors behind this and other stylized facts, such as the weaker correlation of inflation and nominal interest rate (Gibson ... -
Growth and public support to research and imitation: the international connection
This paper studies technology policy within the context of an R&D-based growth model. We first use cross-country data to document several empirical regularities regarding the relationship between public support to research ... -
Growth with technical change and human capital: transition dynamics versus steady state predictions
This paper studies the steady-state and transitional dynamics predictions of an R&D-based growth model and evaluates their performance in explaining income disparities across countries. We fnd that even though steady-state ... -
Health related quality of life of patients with generalized anxiety disorder
Aims: To analyze the health-related quality of life of patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), with respect to the population at large and to a control group. The following goals are addressed: 1.- To determine ... -
How much are people willing to pay for silence? A one and half bound DC CV estimate
Noise is a major urban problem that has not received much attention from environmental economists. In this paper we present an attempt to value a noise reduction program in a Spanish city. Contingent valuation has been ... -
Identity, incentives and motivational capital in public organizations
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organization) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can ...