This paper shows that the individual welfare losses due to the exercise of market power in the service sectors are greater in relative terms for the consumers with higher incomes. However, after adding to those results the ones obtained for the case of consumer goods sold in non-competitive...

El sector de servicios petroleros provee los bienes,servicios y sistemas que permiten a las compañíasdel sector petrolero desarrollar las etapas de lacadena productiva, desde la exploración de reservasy construcción de pozos, producción, refinación ydistribución de petróleo y gas. El...

"El propósito de este capítulo es evaluar la situación de la lectura y la compra de libros en Colombia en 2005, de acuerdo con los resultados del módulo especial sobre hábitos de lectura de la Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE)...

This paper aims to contrast the spillover effects in business failure derived from the geographic proximity among firms of the same sector. To get this purpose, we develop an empirical application based on the analysis of the join-count statistics on a sample of firms of service sector located...

Industry 4.0 is related in each place and with the use and implementation of new technologies for the continuous improvement of administrative processes. As part of the growth of an organization, it is important that day by day it adapts to technological changes that affect worker operations or...

La financiación de la innovación se ha caracterizado por ser un campo fragmentado donde coexisten múltiples teorías, cada una enfocada en uno o en unos pocos aspectos de la financiación a la vez. El presente artículo busca identificar las variables financieras que más influyen y su efecto...

This study analyse the technical efficiency in terms of innovation of the firms in the service sector in the Uruguayan economy. Therefore, we use data from the 2010-2012 Innovation Activities Survey of the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII). In a first stage, we estimate the...

This study investigates the productivity differences and its sources across a set of banks during the last years of the liberal era of the Spanish banking system (1900-1914). These years were characterised by major qualitative and quantitative changes in the banking industry including a sharp...