With this paper we present a preliminary version of the first and the third quadrants of the input-output matrix for Alentejo, a Portuguese region through the regionalization of the input-output national table, for the year 2008. As it is well known the input-output (IO) model is particularly...

The need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases has been placed in recent years. The improvement in the efficiency of use is one of the pillars of the energy policies in most countries. Particularly, in Spain, rates of energy intensity are among the highest in the European Union. With an...

The positive impact that competition has on performance in most industries, has been questioned in the "education industry." The idea that competition is limited, that parents don't choose schools for their children considering quality and that schools do not react to that choice is in the...

There is vast literature examining how households’ income and consumption changes over the life cycle. These studies, however, are usually restricted to developed economies, such as the US, Japan or the UK. The general objective of this paper is to add to this literature by investigating life...

The main purpose of this work is to analyse the effect of exports intensity and R & D activities in technical efficiency using data of Spanish manufacturing firms during the period 2004-2009. In a previous work, Diaz and Sanchez (2008) found that size was an important determinant of technical...

he wage of the Official is one of the focus issues in the public and labor economics. As we all know, there are great gaps of the economy between the provinces in China. Therefore, the wage of the officials between the provinces is quite different from each other. Then an issue arises. The wage...

The changing direction of foreign direct investment (FDI) from developed countries towards developing ones, especially after the crisis, has started to attract more attention in the literature. In this paper, the link between FDI and “ease of doing business” indicators, as one possible...

The paper investigates the link between corruption and efficiency by using a rich micro-level dataset concerning solid waste collection activities in 529 Italian municipalities observed over the years 2004-2006. In order to test the impact of corruption on cost efficiency we estimate a...

This paper examines the development of total factor productivity (TFP) and the drivers of TFP for a panel of 17 EU countries in the period of 1995-2007. We estimate aggregated and sectoral TFP for 17 EU countries by means of the augmented mean group estimator to control for endogeneity,...

The objective of this article is to examine the impacts of entrepreneurship on the performance of Iran's manufacturing industries using time series data over the period 1974-2006. More specifically, entrepreneurship capital measures are included in the production function of manufacturing...