Para evaluar la producción científica se han empleado con profusión los factores de impacto contenidos en las revistas incluidas en los Journal Citation Report (JCR). Ello no ha sido óbice para que al mismo tiempo hayan surgido numerosas advertencias sobre los peligros de su uso...

En este trabajo se propone la construcción de un indicador que permita llevar a cabo evaluaciones de la producción científica de manera neutra entre áreas, instituciones y/o autores. Para ello, y en consonancia con lo que se propone en la literatura, se emplearan los factores de impacto....

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...