Modern forms of energy are an important vehicle towards poverty alleviation in rural areas of developing countries. Most developing countries٠households heavily rely on wood fuel which impact their health and socialӥconomic status. To ease such a dependency, other modern forms of energy,...

In this paper I critically analyze Smith's thesis in book I, chapter 6 of the "Wealth of Nations" that the replacement of the capital goods consumed in production becomes fully income. I argue that Smithٳ argument is defective and does not imply this, and that, once it is properly corrected, it...

Also published as Working Paper DFAEII 2003-02

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is a hypothesis which implies that it is possible to "grow out of environmental degradation." Most theoretical models of the EKC relation have not accounted for transboundary and intergenerational externalities, nor have empirical studies provided evidence...

[EN] This paper focuses on the effects of environmental policy over the perfomance of firms and workers, when there is local pollution. We assume that the government chooses the environmental policy announcing an upper limit on emissions, while unions (if they exist) choose the wage rates and...

In this paper, whe show that the strategic choice of spatial price policy under duopoly crucially depends on the rules of price competition. Thisse and Vives (1988) show that spatial price discrimination is a dominant strategy when the mill pricing firm is the leader and the discriminatory firm...

Developmental monetary benefits of coast artificialisation projects are rarely confronted with the environmental benefits that its conservation may entail. As a consequence, policy-makers often face decision making processes in which monetary benefits have to be balanced with physical impacts...

El objetivo fundamental del presente estudio es analizar el impacto de la aplicación de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TICs) como elemento didáctico de autoaprendizaje y facilitador motivacional en la docencia universitaria presencial. El trabajo empírico realizado...

Clasificación AMS: 62P20, 62-07.-- Una versión más reciente de este trabajo está publicada como Biltoki 2003.07.

Time series in many areas of application, and notably in the social sciences, are frequently incomplete. This is particularly annoying when we need to have complete data, for instance to compute indexes as a weighted average of values from a number of time series; whenever a single datum is...