The main objective of this paper is to contribute a continuous annual series of timber consumption in Spain for the period 1860-1935, an unexplored topic in Spanish economic history. Then the paper estimates a standard consumption function trying to explain the behavior of the serie. The main...

Este trabajo analiza la relación entre el gasto en defensa y la renta de los quince miembros de la OTAN entre 1960 y 2002 con un tratamiento homogéneo que permite hacer comparaciones entre países que pertenecen a una misma alianzamilitar. La estimación simultánea de la demanda de defensa...

Tournament design variables -such as the number of teams and matches - affect attendance. This paper provides evidence of how design variables have affected attendance in the Chilean football league. We estimate the annual demand for stadium tickets with

For policy makers and business cycles analysts is important to count on variables that anticipate points of inflection in economic activity. This paper studies aggregate real money balances as leader indicator of the economic activity based on a Probit mo

The aim of this paper consists of describing, analysing and modelling the dynamic of dailyprice series and its volatility in the Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market. The article describes themain characteristics of the sector after the deregulation process and the factors that establish...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether there have been differences in the effectiveness of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom since Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) establishment. The analysis is based on the fulfilment...

This paper focuses on modelling the short-term interest rate. We estimate and compare different conditional heteroskedasticity models which are divided into three groups: (1) the Levels models; (2) the GARCH models; and (3) the Mixed models which take into account the effects in both (1) and...

En este trabajo se estudian los procesos de raíz unitaria estocástica (STUR) como una generalización de los procesos de raíz unitaria fija. Así, se repasan tanto sus principales características estadísticas, como los métodos de detección y contraste desarrollados para este tipo de...

Al estimar una función de producción para la economía española durante el período 1910-1995 sólo detectamos para 1965-1995 la existencia de una relación de equilibrio a largo plazo entre el nivel de producción, el trabajo empleado, el stock de capital físico y el stock de capital...

This paper uses the "Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate" (BEER) approach to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate (RER) for Peru. A bootstrap technique is then employed to build confidence bands for the equilibrium path, so that it is possible to determine whether exchange rate...