Starting from the median voter model commonly used in the literature to analyse the determinants of the functional distribution of public spending, we propose a new multiproduct dynamic model that also allows one to classify the nature of the interaction –complementarity or...

Starting from the median voter model commonly used in the literature to analyse the determinants of the functional distribution of public spending, we propose a new multiproduct dynamic model that also allows one to classify the nature of the interaction –complementarity or substitutability–...

Este trabajo analiza el programa de estímulo fiscal español, comparándolo con los planes fiscales adoptados en otros países –principalmente de la UEM- y con las características deseables recogidas en la literatura teórica respecto a su tamaño, composición, estructura temporal y...

La publicación de los resultados de la cuarta oleada del Informe PISA ha vuelto a poner de relieve la distancia que sigue existiendo entre nuestro país y nuestros principales competidores. El evidente interés por reducir esa distancia ha dado lugar en los últimos años a la proliferación de...

The objective of this study is to analyse the technical or productive efficiency of the refuse collection services in 75 municipalities located in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The analysis has been carried out using various techniques. Firstly we have calculated a deterministic parametric...

Interest in how social assistance programmes are organized has recently heightened, fed by concerns about the limits on achieving greater efficiency. Most available evidence considers performance indicators that are too general, there being few studies relating the use of inputs to outcomes. We...

The aim of this article is to analyse the technical efficiency and cost-efficiency of the refuse collection services in 73 municipalities located in Catalonia, Spain. The analysis has been carried out using a modification of the DEA model in three stages developed by Fried and Lovell (1996),...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the self-reported prevalence of chronic conditions when respondents are simply asked to list all chronic conditions (recall method) versus when respondents are asked explicitly about the presence of specific conditions (recognition...

This chapter studies the effect of short- and long-run shocks on the Mexican GDP. The authors fit a structural VAR model using the Blanchard and Quah decomposition for a bivariate model to analyze the impact of supply and demand shocks on GDP and prices. The svar command allows the estimation of...