In addition to its traditional purpose of producing food and raw materials, agriculture plays an important role in terms of supplying public goods, generally in the form of externalities deriving from farming activities. These goods may be predominantly economic and social –rural...

This paper deals with the fiscal implications of a stabilization fund that allows for a stable consumption over time, in particular in the case of an oil producing and exporting country like México. We discuss the functioning of an oil stabilization fund based on international experience and...

The following paper analyzes the problem of social cooperation in the provision of a public good from an evolutionary perspective. To this end we depart from behavioral programs as the basic building block for modeling individuals in the social interaction, which is based on a generalized...