The aim of this paper is to consider the prospects for pensions privatisation in Spain. Firstly, public pensions and complementary private pensions schemes are briefly described and their basic indicators compared. Next, financial projections for public pensions are discussed in order to...

In this paper we use the Spanish National Health Survey of 1997, recently made available, to establish health patterns by gender, age and income status of the adult Spanish population. We analyse perceived health and major health problems, the use of health services or health related behaviours....

Using spatial econometrics techniques this paper investigates the relationship between trade and growth in the European Union (EU). We find that the EU integration process has promoted trade, especially between close neighbours, and that trade has been the channel of diffusion of interdependent...

En este trabajo se aborda la cuestión de si la fiscalidad diferenciada afecta al volumen de ahorro. Los efectos de la fiscalidad sobre el ahorro se analizan en el marco de un sencillo y específico problema del consumidor permitiendo que la tasa de descuento temporal dependa o no de los...

Este trabajo analiza los efectos económicos de las inversiones ferroviarias realizadas en España durante el periodo 1991-2007, con especial énfasis en el futuro inmediato, que coincide con el periodo de programación del Plan de Infraestructuras 2000-2007. Gracias a dichas inversiones, el PIB...

Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la evaluación, para la economía madrileña, de las ayudas recibidas de la Unión Europea durante el período 1990-2006 a través de distintos programas de inversiones, cerca de 3 mil millones de euros. Para ello utilizamos una adaptación para la...

This paper has examined the degree of convergence in social protection registered in the European Union (EU) during the 1970-1999 period. To that end, we study the long-run properties of time series of social protection benefits, applying unit root tests that allow for endogenously determined...

After properly modelling growth externalities and using spatial econometric techniques we investigate whether economic integration promotes interdependent growth among countries. We conclude that this has been indeed the case for advanced OECD countries and that, for those countries belonging to...