Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...

Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the productive efficiency of local governments in different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles -i.e., the services and facilities they provide to their constituencies- is essential to this research. However, several...

Over the last few years, there has been a devolutionary tendency in many developed and developingcountries. In this article we propose a methodology to decompose whether the benefits in terms ofefficiency derived from transfers of powers from higher to municipal levels of government...

In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...

La caracterización de las cadenas productivas aplicando el concepto de simulación mediante redes dinámicas, conlleva una descripción mucho más detallada de cada uno de los actores que intervienen en las cadenas, además de esbozar las relaciones entre los mismos a partir de variables de...

El reciente interés que ha despertado la dinámica de sistemas como método para analizar los sistemas de producción a partir de la modelación de sistemas simplificados, ha permitido a investigadores probar diferentes estrategias aplicables se muestra la utilidad de la modelar sistemas de...

This paper provides three perspectives on long-run growth rates of labor productivity (LP) and of multi-factor productivity (MFP) for the U. S. economy. It extracts statistical growth trends for labor productivity from quarterly data for the total economy going back to 1952, provides new...