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Determinants of Internet use in Spain
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)
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This paper analyzes the impact of a variety of socioeconomic, demographic and regional factors to explain Internet use and the frequency of use by individuals in Spain. We have employed binomial and ordered probit models ...
Will small energy consumers be faster in transition? Evidence from the early shift from coal to oil in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2012)
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This paper provide evidence of the early transition from coal to oil for 20 Latin American
countries over the first half of the 20th century, which does not fit the transition experiences of large
energy consumers. These ...
Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)
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We present a model that is closely related to the so-called models of choice under complete uncertainty, in which the agent has no information about the probability of the outcomes. There are two approaches within the said ...
Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences: an axiomatic analysis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
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In this paper, we axiomatically study how to measure the similarity of preferences in a group of individuals. For simplicity, we refer to this as the cohesiveness. First, we provide axioms that characterize a family of ...
Non-anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(Elsevier, 2013)
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We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a new ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the Upstream Responsibility rule
(Elsevier, 2015)
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The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies
(Springer US, 2012)
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Rankings to evaluate opportunity distributions present in most of the literature judge a policy (change from one distribution of opportunities to another) on the basis of the changes created and, thus, independently ...
Exchange of indivisible goods and indifferences: The Top Trading Absorbing Sets mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2011)
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There is a wide range of economic problems that involve the exchange of indivisible goods with no monetary transfers, starting from the housing market model of the seminal paper by Shapley and Scarf (1974) to problems such ...
Essays in decentralization: efficiency, shadow economy and regional resilience
(2017)
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Fiscal decentralization, that is, the allocation of tax and spending powers to lower levels of government, is now an established policy objective in many developed and developing countries. This trend towards decentralization ...