In this work an analysis has been made of the Information Society from a linguistic viewpoint, presenting the information available for three reference communities: the Spanish, the English and the French. The analysis carried out for the Spanish-speaking community clearly links the presence of...

The analysis made to a large group of international telecom operators, reveals that, even when the disposition of an international linguistic community is not a condition for internationalization, operators have an international language of reference. This language could be considered as a...

This paper addresses the effect of Internet use on efficiency heterogeneity among firms. It uses a rich dataset for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 2000-2005. The empirical framework is based on the simultaneous specification of stochastic frontier and inefficiency effects. The results...

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms producers of wooden goods, in presence of non desirable outputs. As main results, we find that the consideration of several restrictions on the expansion of non desirable outputs...

The target of this paper is to review some of the concepts most frequently used to measure economic diversity at regional level, exposing their base assumptions in order to illustrate an alternative approach developed from the financial literature on efficient portfolio selection. Regional real...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate that, under certain assumptions, the influence of unemployment benefits (UB) on the efficiency in labour allocation depends crucially on the way UB affect Job search. Individual Job search is influenced by UB in a twofold way: decreasing search intensity...

This paper analizes the main aspects that have helpedto shape the process of mechanization of valencian agriculture. Thetime path of severa1 mechanization indexes have been taken intoaccount for the 1961-88 period and differences in machinery use atsubregional level have also been stu-died. A...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the productive change that has taken place in the postal sector of the European Union. Using the Malmquist index, the productivity growth of European postal operators is broken up into two factors: the variations in efficiency levels and the technical change....

The completion of the European Single Market should bring out an exploitation of comparative advantages in production and trade. It is usually assumed that, given the predominance of intraeuropean trade flows in the global import figures of the European Union, efficiency gains from trade...

This paper deals with the calculation of shadow prices for two industrial wastes generated on their production processes by a sample of eighteen firms belonging to the Spanish ceramic pavements industry. These prices are used to construct a corrected index of productivity which allows for...