There are several studies that show the importance of intangible assets in the value of a company. Nevertheless, there are few that consider the influence of their existence on tangible assets. This paper attempts to demonstrate how the existence of the intangible assets of a company affects its...

Problems faced by human groups according with Organization Theory can be summarized as the search for an equilibrium between the transmission of the information necessary in order for teams to raise their efficiency, and the increase in costs that this entails. The fact that one of the proposed...

In Aragón, regional policies against depopulation are very meticulous but hardly been implemented. Conversely, the most urgent repopulation strategies have been performed from local governments. The explanation for this difference lies in the ex-ante stage design, analyzed mainly according to...

Does population follow the same inverted-U pattern of concentration/dispersion that has been found in the case of economic activity in the long run? In this paper we present the evidence for eight European countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and find that, contrary to the...

This paper analyzes a mixed duopoly with horizontal product differentiation using the unconstrained Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs. Firms play a noncooperative two-stage game on locations (first stage) and prices (second stage), and we consider that the firms move simultaneously...

The increasing interest in the measurement of the performance and efficiency in non-profit public organisations, has led to the development of performance indicators, each of which attempts to measure the output (input) of a group of nearly homogeneous products (factors of production). The Data...

The objective of this paper is to carry out a practical evaluation of employee productivity in the United Sates using a the professional data base, namely the ECS Survey on Employee Efficiency (2000/2001) conducted by Watson Wyatt, which includes the responses of 453 organizations covering...

New Public Management (NPM) is a cluster of techniques that guide the public sector towards modernization and innovation and accountancy is one of the matters being reformed. In the recent years, local governments have initiated, with different intensities, important changes in their counting...

In this paper we consider the selection of the information set in ARMA-GARCH models using the methodology proposed in Muñoz et al. (2001) based on ideas of Phillips (1996). To that end, we analyse the performance of some selection criteria asymptotically equivalent to the Bayes factor and...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the technological change produced in the Spanish economy between 1980 and 1994 using the Input-Output tables of 1980, 1986, 1990 and 1994. Firstly we obtain and compare the linkage components of each block throughout the period. Secondly, using...