PISA 2006 results showed huge differences in educational attainment across Spanish regions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors explaining these differences. Our results indicate that differences in family characteristics of students from different regions are crucial in explaining...

The present article that comprises of other studies of the same author (Sousa, E. 2009), tries, with the obstacles of the study case, to propose an interpretation, of the form of beginning deed of the peripheral expansion in the cities, from a metropolitan center; taking as the study case the...

Using Discriminant Analysis, we carry out an assessment of Moody's and Standard & Poor's ratings of Spanish Regional Governments' debt. We set out four models. The first only includes budgetary variables. The outcome points out Andalusia and Valencia regions have had the tightest budgetary...

English Abstract: The statement presented below is a theoretical and documentary review of the literature on the relationship between two concepts that have been widely developed separately, but whose relationship and interdependence are not yet find large developments or research to support it:...

English Abstract: The objective of this research is to analyze the intellectual capital and other determinants of competitive advantage in exporting companies in northern Honduras, from two perspectives: the theory of resources and capabilities, and the theory of the firm based on the knowledge....

Presentación / Joan B. Casas -- Introducción / Oriol Amat y Modest Guinjoan -- Posicionamiento de una Cataluña independiente en el contexto internacional / Oriol Martínez Alòs-Moner y Vicent Pastor -- Seis comentarios sobre la viabilidad de la independencia y dos aclaraciones previas /...