On the analysis of Varianٳ textbook on Microeconomics, which I take to be a representative of the standard view, I argue that Varian provides two contrary notions of profit, namely, profit as surplus over cost and profit as cost. Varian starts by defining profit as the surplus of revenues over...

This paper was presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, held at Bogacizi University, Istanbul, from 19 to 21 May 2011.

The paper investigates both linear and nonlinear causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain for the period 1971-2005. We use the methodology of Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lütkepohl (1996). We also apply the standard Granger causality tests in a VAR for...

Existen varias técnicas de análisis de tablas múltiples en la literatura. Estas técnicas tienen, sin embargo, lagunas de aplicación cuando las tablas están compuestas por un número diferente de individuos, especialmente si las variables incluidas en las tablas son cualitativas. Para este...

Also published as Working Paper DFAEII 2003-01

El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es analizar las motivaciones dominantes en los alumnos de las Licenciaturas de Economía (LE) y Administración y Dirección de Empresas (LADE)a la hora de enfrentarse a las asignaturas de Estadística. Para ello se ha realizado una encuesta de opinión,...

The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider the role that the environmental policy of the government plays on the decision whether to privatize public firms. Assuming that there are one public firm and n private firms and that the government chooses an environmental standard we show...

The present article reexamines some of the issues regarding the benchmarking of patents using the NBER data base on U.S. patents by generalizing a parametric citation model and by estimating it using GAM methodology. The main conclusion is that the estimated effects differ considerably from...

El presente trabajo realiza el análisis descriptivo de la población parada y, posteriormente la que está buscando empleo en la CAPV, en el período 1993-1999. El interés se centra en observar si estamos ante un paro de larga duración o no y profundizar en las características de los...