The aim of this article is to calculate the market valuation of quality characteristics and locational attributes of private secondary school in Spain. In order to achieve this, a hedonic price regression is estimated. The quality characteristics of a school appear to be important determinants...

This paper presents a novel framework for selecting socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios. The Hedonic Price Method (HPM) is applied to obtain an evaluation of SRI criteria that is integrated into a multi-objective mathematical programming model. The HPM breaks away from the...

Are estimates accurate? Are these data reliable? Can we evaluate whether successive revisions of the first estimate bring additional information, or whether they are due to the correction of earlier inaccuracies of bias, which does not add any useful information to economic analysts? The...

The aim of this paper is to provide a methodology to assess the sustainability of investments in sovereign bonds using a technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS). TOPSIS is a multi-criteria decision making technique used to rank a finite set of alternatives...

The potential information available in administrative records managed by Public Administrations is vast for its value in improving the social and economic research and its utility to evaluate, judge and plan the public policies. An advance in the standardization and coordination of the...