Spanish Abstract: La compartición de infraestructura ayuda a reducir el requerimiento de obra civil necesaria para el despliegue de las redes de fibra lo que implica una importante reducción de los costos de despliegue. En el contexto actual, en el que necesitamos contar con redes de mayor...

This paper evaluates the main measures that have been used to regulate the interconnection prices in the telecommunication sector. We show that many of the regulations that are applying the vast majority of countries have very little theoretical support, and we identify the restrictions that...

This paper analyses the economic long-run effects of the EU funds received by the Andalusian region, with special emphasis in the Community Support Framework 1994-1999 (CSF 94-99). To that end, we estimate an aggregate private-sector production function where the stock of public capital appears...

En este trabajo se mide la eficiencia productiva de los quince Estados miembros de la Unión Europea (UE-15) durante el período 1980-2001, con el objetivo de analizar su evolución y explorar la influencia del capital público. Para ello se utiliza un modelo de frontera estocástica que permite...

The aim of this article is to estimate the technical efficiency of the productive regional sectors and explore the influence of the infrastructure endowments in this analysis. To do this, we used the non parametric approach of DEA to compute Malmquist productivity indexes that allow us to...

Este trabajo estudia los factores que explican los determinantes de la inversión pública regional a escala provincial. En particular, se analizan los criterios que han podido guiar las decisiones de inversión pública (en carreteras e hidráulicas) realizadas por la Administración...

This paper describes and tries to quantify the effects of some factors that have affected costs of state owned electric utilities in Mexico (energy losses, fuel and labor). It is noted that the impact of the increases in fuel prices on the electric utilities' total cost in the last years has...

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballero-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the innovation promotion programs carried by the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII). A combination of non-experimental methods was used to quantify the effects of public support to innovation in three dimensions of the firms'...