This thesis presents an examination of the importance of Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs) for economic growth and examines how sensitive employment inSMEs is to business cycle fluctuations in Brazil.The thesis uses different empirical techniques to investigate the role of SMEsin the Brazilian...

This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatially dependent....

Este documento analiza si las inversiones en plantas solares y eólicas generan empleo en el municipio en el que se instalan. Partiendo de una base de datos con información mensual durante 13 años, el trabajo explota la variabilidad temporal de la apertura y el tamaño de las plantas...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2307

Virginiaâs temperate climate is suitable for several mosquito species capable of transmitting pathogens to humans. In southwest Virginia, La Crosse encephalitis and West Nile fever are most prominent. The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical...

Input users and producers seek to increase their profitability by locating near each other. This self-reinforcing relationship between input producers and users can be views as a basic agglomeration force to enable the modeling of agglomeration economies based on a standard monopolistic...

Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which identical consumers and production factors are all uniformly distributed. In the real world, however, most countries are composed of heterogeneous regions, and in accordance the above...

This dissertation focuses on two topics that are important to regional economists. The first is the development of a hybrid method for input-output table compilation which distinguishes between economic relationships that need to be surveyed and those that can be obtained by other means. The...