Spanish Abstract: La crisis financiera que inicio en los Estados Unidos en 2007 influyó para que los países miembros de Unión Europea (UE) sufrieran en 2009 la mayor caída de su actividad económica desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Algunos de los países miembros de la UE con...

Using language game notions and the equivalence between games, this document studies John Nash’s decision of not playing the coalitional game proposed by John von Neumann. The key point is that Nash suggested hypothetical worlds that are incompatible with the kind proposed by von Neumann. And,...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es la obtención de la variable latente Satisfacción Global del Consumidor (SGC), a partir de 25 indicadores proporcionados por la revista Autopista para 130 modelos de coches. La metodología empleada es la modelización mediante Sistemas de Ecuaciones...

We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...

We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...

Spanish Abstract: En varios litigios relacionados con libre competencia, es frecuente encontrar argumentos que califican los mercados en los cuales existen comportamientos líder-seguidor como carentes de competencia. Este documento refuta esa afirmación y propone que la competencia en esas...

We study cartel stability in a differentiated price-setting duopoly with returns to scale. We show that a cartel may be equally stable in the presence of lower differentiation, provided that the decreasing returns parameter is high. In addition we demonstrate that for a given factor of discount,...