The aim of this paper is to understand the agricultural sector in Mexico by looking at the way productive factors are being used and its technical efficiency. By means of data envelopment analysis, the empirical evidence shows that the northern states of the country are leaders in the sector,...

Este trabajo analiza el impacto de las infraestructuras públicas sobre la productividad de las industrias manufactureras en Colombia entre 1990 y 2005, mediante el enfoque basado en la teoría de la dualidad. Concretamente, estudia los efectos que tiene la inversión en capital público sobre...

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate the productive change in the period 2001-2008....

Since Information and Communication Technologies adoption has grown, research on link of ICT and Economic Growth link has been rapidly developed, both in academic world and by governments and cooperation and development agencies. Research has found that there is a significant impact of the use...

Este trabajo trata de analizar el impacto que han tenido las infraestructuras en el nivel de desarrollo económico en Andalucía, desde una perspectiva comparativa con el conjunto de las regiones españolas. En este sentido, este documento pone de manifiesto que, sin duda, la escasez de...

El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es analizar la evolución de la productividad aparente del trabajo y la incidencia que, sobre ésta, ha tenido la productividad sectorial y la estructura y especialización productiva en Andalucía para el periodo 1980-2000, comparándola con el conjunto...

Since Information and Communication Technologies adoption has grown, research on link of ICT and Economic Growth link has been rapidly developed, both in academic world and by governments and cooperation and development agencies. Research has found that there is a significant impact of the use...

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate the productive change in the period 2001-2008....

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo analiza las características de la expansión de los grandes grupos corporativos en las industrias de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en México, y sus posibles implicaciones para la estructura y los niveles de eficiencia del sector. La construcción de un indicador...

In this paper we build a socio-economic simulation model, called Carrion, to project the public expenditure on the retirement pensions, the social security contributions and the GDP through 2060. The model makes use of detailed hypothesis backed with econometric estimations on the behavior of...