In this work we present a model basis on Bernheim-Whinston model, which considers that political decisions are the result of various interactions between groups with direct influence (GDI) on political decision making. According to our approach, this model stokes up government role which...

In recent years, there has been a plethora of econometric literature on the determinants of growth. However, the lack of a theory that integrates economic, political and cultural factors does not allow an adequate interpretation of these new results. This article proposes a conceptual framework...

Most western countries started to reform their public management in the eighties. These reform processes are known as New Public Management (NPM). Although, the depth and scope of the changes are not the same in all countries, they show common characteristics. This paper reviews such...

En este trabajo, abordamos en primer lugar el problema de la interacción entre las políticas regulatorias y de defensa de la competencia en relación a la potencial implementación del mecanismo regulatorio de competencia por comparación en el sector de distribución eléctrica en Argentina....

Book review of Paksoy, H. B. (2001): "Identities: How Governed, Who Pays?", Carrie Books.

This article shows that the consensus about the importance of institutions for economic growth is derived from Weber and North, for whom legal institutions make it possible to predict the State’s and economic agent’s actions. For Weber, law based on formal rationality contributed to the...

This paper analyses current developments in public intervention in local economies. The changing Fordist/Keynesian paradigm takes aside the dominance and hierarchy of public action and gives way to a new governance model where the public administration is one more agent among several. We take...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto que la entrada de inmigrantes tendrá sobre las cuentas de las Administraciones Públicas andaluzas y sobre la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de las actuales políticas de gasto público en Andalucía. Para ello, realizamos diferentes simulaciones...

This paper has the main target of clarifying the costs of a fiduciary monetary system, in the economic transition process. Also the advantages of such a financial system are studied, as based upon a non-nominative silver current and guarantor of development. This is also an attempting to settle...