Los cambios sociales, económicos y demográficos que ha experimentado la sociedad española en las últimas décadas han fomentado el debate sobre las causas y consecuencias de las dificultades que, en muchos casos, experimentan mujeres y hombres para conciliar su vida personal, familiar y...

Evaluation of public training programs has stronger developed in the last decades because of the use of causal inference methods. This paper shows an overview of the disposable methods of public training programs evaluation in the context of randomized experiments also in observational studies....

We study the dynamic properties of an endogenous growth model with pollution in which the government can control the pollution through distorting taxes on the pollutant firms and through public abatement activities. First, we characterize the conditions for indeterminacy of equilibria when the...

We use a multifactor asset pricing model for currency, bond and stocks for fourteen emerging markets over the period from 1997 to middle 2001 to investigate the effect of the exchange rate regime on the cost of capital, the integration of financial emerging markets and the issue of contagion. We...

The main models to construct technical coefficients are the industry technology model and the commodity technology model. The former yields nonnegative coefficients and the latter fulfills nice theoretical properties, such as price invariance. Although the models are very different, this paper...

Clustering methods group individuals or objects based on information about their similarity or proximity. When the raw information to generate the clusters cannot be easily observed or verified, the clusters designer must rely on information reported on individuals behind the observations. When...

In this paper we experimentally research if the socio-cultural environment of an olive-oil producer family could influence on the attitudes towards risk of their members. Beyond the often assumed greater risk aversion of farmers on this particular environment, we do not find any significant...

El Protocolo de Kyoto obligará a los países firmantes a limitar sus emisiones de efecto invernadero. Existe una considerable preocupación sobre el impacto que este tratado pueda ocasionar en la economía en general y en la competitividad de algunos de sus sectores en particular. El objetivo...

Since policy makers usually pursue several conflicting objectives, policy making can be understood as a multicriteria decision problem. Following the methodological proposal in André and Cardenete (2005), we use multiobjective programming in connection with a computable general equilibrium...

This paper shows that liquidity constraints restrict job creation even with flexible labor markets. In a dynamic model of firm investment and demand for labor with imperfect capital markets, represented as a constraint on dividends, and imperfect labor markets, contained in legal firing and...