Spanish Abstract: En este documento se presenta un análisis de la causalidad entre el crecimiento del producto por trabajador y la inversión en capital físico por trabajador. Mediante la metodología de los modelos de Vectores Autorregresivos (VAR) se desarrolla una evaluación empírica para...

The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

This paper analyzes the effect that government expenditure on health has on economicgrowth by estimating the elasticity of substitution for a CES production function in the Spanish economy during the period 1985-2003. Our results show that the higher the efforts of public administrations in...

Following the basic hypothesis of the a new approach in the analysis of the economic development, the principal reason for the actual gap in the per capita income between developed and developing countries (former European colonies) is the original wealth concentration. In this paper we tested a...

The aim of this paper, which is part of a broader research project, is to analyse the fluctuations of output in a framework of imperfect competition based on the stylised facts. We conclude that these movements can be originated by supply or demand shocks, or simply by the adjustment of the...

This paper explores the relationship between economic growth in reference to atmospheric pollution and air quality (CO2 and SO2, respectively) in Uruguay (a small-open economy) through the XX century. Departing from the theory behind the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), a linear relationship...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tuvo como propósito estudiar la dinámica de la empatía, el bienestar subjetivo y las creencias religiosas en estudiantes de pregrado de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. Para ello se desarrolló un estudio cuantitativo, de diseño no...

Spanish Abstract: A lo largo de la historia, la religión se relaciona con una gran industria de servicios. Los servicios provistos por instituciones religiosas son con frecuencia considerados como poseedores de externalidades que afectan al sistema político, económico y social. En...

In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

The article deals with the chances of illustration of Mohammed: is it forbidden to depict Mohammed in the Islam? What the history or the religion say about it? The following sentences try to get a brief but deep approaching to that issue, underlying the importance that just a few time ago (in...