The accurate estimation of elasticities of demand for basic telephone services is extremely useful not only for the private firms in the industry but also for the regulatory agency. In this latter case, the regulators may carry out simulations in order to

Spectral analysis is applied to the empirical identification of terms of trade cycles, in the secular evolution, 1870-2009, of a group of extreme-landabundant countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Uruguay. Estimates of the power density spectrum functions produce...

Se trata de revisar la evidencia disponible, durante los ultimos veinte años, sobre aquellas variables que determinan la evolución del mercado de trabajo en la industria. Asimismo, se trata de explicar el incremento sustancial en el paro que se ha producido durante dicho periodo. Se han...

This paper shows that actual systems of intergovernmental transfers are incompletely specified when viewed as mechanisms that operate over time, and that the norms of evolution most frequently used do not preserve the distributive properties they have at their initial position. We argue that...