Se realiza una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se presenta la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías de la utilidad esperada subjetiva y desde la utilidad esperada basada en rangos. Se revisan las metodologías de medición de la aversión...

English abstract: From the Behavioral Economics point of view, this paper presents a critic to one dimension of rational choice theory that is widely accepted by Law and Economics scholars. Our hypothesis is that (i) individuals deviate anomalously but predictably of normative assumption of...

English Abstract: The article discusses whether and to what extent experiments can contribute to a research paradigm based on the study of human behaviour in complex evolving environments and on the problem of asymmetric adjustment among different components of economic system along certain...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo del artículo es efectuar una aproximación desde el behavioral economics a (algunas) políticas públicas desde un punto de vista descriptivo y normativo. Para cumplir el objetivo, (i) el artículo sintetiza dos sesgos cognitivos: el sesgo de status quo y el efecto...

Public transport (urban and intercity) is organized in Spain both through concession contracts and public ownership. The regulator fixes prices and level of services,as well as the level of subsidy. This paper examines the regulated system in the Spanish bus industry in the last decades.

Public investment in high speed infrastructure is a priority of the Spanish government. High speed is a technological breakthrough in transport but, from an economic point of view, the question is whether is socially worthy to allocate public funds to this transport option. The answer requires a...

The aim of this study is to analyze and compare the results from Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Spatial Hedonic Prices (SHP) methodologies estimating value fluctuations on residential proprieties in Bogotá (Colombia). Specifically, this study examines value fluctuations on residential...

The current documents attempts to establish the possible presence of the "Mohring" effect on the Pumakatari mass transport system created by the Municipal Government of La Paz on 2014. It begins estimating the utility function, as established on the theory of discreet elections and McFadden's...

This article from the perspective of port governance, develops the performance of port privatization in México, considering the load indicators (general and containerized), exports and imports, cruise ship passengers, investments made and number of companies active in the maritime port sector....

Estimating the specific effects of a complete reform of the public transit system of a large city is a difficult task due to the confounding effects that will usually mask the impact of interest. In this study we estimate the impact of the complete reform of the public transport system in...