In the automobile sector, it is a usual practice that independent carmakers engage in the development and production of a common car model, the so-called twin-cars. From the point of view of the marketing literature, we claim that carmakers should not charge different brand premia on separate...

El presente trabajo pretende, a partir de la Encuesta Económica al Sector Industrial (EESI) elaborada por el Instituto de Estadística de la CAM, analizar el estado y la evolución de la tecnología a nivel de establecimiento en el sector industrial madrileño. En primer lugar se presenta una...

Differential equations with advanced and delayed time arguments may arise in the optimality conditions of simple growth models with delays. Models with investment gestation lags (time-to-build), consumption gestation lags (habit formation) or learning by using lie in this category. In this...

A comprehensive study of the linkages between demographic and economic variables should not only account for vintage specificity but also incorporate the relevant economic and demographic decisions in a complete optimal control set-up. In this paper, a methodological set-up allowing to reach...

La caida sostenida del precio de los bienes de equipo, relativo al de los bienes de consumo, se interpreta como unamanifestación de progreso técnico incorporado (PTI). En este artículo revisaremos la metodología de la medición del crecimiento y veremos que la presencia de PTI nos obliga a...

In order to evaluate the performance of the Plan Prever (a scrapping scheme introduced by the Spanish government in 1997), we propose a model of car replacement. It is based in the recent literature on investment goods replacement and allows for a quantitative evaluation of the effects on car's...