Duro and Esteban (1998) proposed an additive decomposition of Theil populationweighted index by four income multiplicative factors (in spatial contexts). This note makes some additional methodological points: first, it argues that interaction effects are taken into account in the factoral...

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

The purpose of this study is to analyse statistically factors that affect individual access to and household ownership of new technology. This paper reviews the literature on the diffusion of new innovations, the use of new technology and relevant consumer theory. Also some descriptive...

In recent decades, spatial effects have been incorporated into mainstream economics. Nevertheless, although the addition of these spatial effects to the inequality indexes would be a natural extension in this line of research, to our knowledge, there are not contributions assessing neighborhood...

The nature of global and regional income distributions and the extent of inequality are examined using country-level data on income distributions drawn from World Bank studies and the World Institute for Development Economics Research for the period 1993 - 2000. Beta-2 income distributions are...

Integrated assessment frameworks which can account comprehensively for the benefits related to water quality improvements have not yet been established. The main challenge is to link economic valuation with hydrological data in an appropriate way. We here explore the so-called 'impact pathway...

This paper seeks to add to the growing body of research on sustainability, by bringing in an interdisciplinary view, with focus on psychology. Key recent research in other fields, such as biology and anthropology is outlined, and the implications on the two main paradigms of sustainability are...

This paper deals with the way in which various legal instruments provide compensation to victims of catastrophes in Europe. The traditional law and economics of insurance literature with respect o government relief and insurance solutions towards financial compensation is used to analyse various...

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...