In this paper we analyse, from a theoretical perspective, the effects of some of the initiatives implemented in Spain aimed at improving the scientific output in the Spanish Universities. Our results show that those incentives that represent a reduction of the teaching-hours or that represent an...

We present a model which allows us to show that even in a public university system where tuition and fees are fixed by the administration, a stratification of public universities according to the quality they offer and the quality of students they select, can be observed. This result is similar...

En este artículo analizamos qué criterios debería seguir una administración a la hora de distribuir recursos para la contratación de nuevo profesorado con el objetivo de maximizar el output científico de las universidades. También analizamos qué sucede con la producción científica del...

In the last twenty years, Interregional Transfers in the form of public infrastructures have been used as an instrument to reduce regional disparities in output levels. In this paper we provide theoretical foundation on the effects of such transfers on both regional output and regional welfare...

In this paper we investigate the connection between cost asymmetries and the sustainability of collusion within the context of a infinitely repeated Cournot duopoly. We assume that firms are able to coordinate on distinct output levels than the unrestricted joint profit maximization outcome. We...

This study proposes a novel approach for estimating the rules governing the distribution of resources among wife, husband and children, using a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects. The model contributes to the literature by explicitly modeling intrahousehold...

Gains from the incorporation of monetary values for changes in environmental goods and services within cost-benefit analysis depend on how well researchers can estimate these values. One key problem in both stated and revealed preference approaches is how best to model preference heterogeneity....

Climate change will further exacerbate wetland deterioration, especially in the Mediterranean region. On the one side, it will accelerate the decline in the populations and species of plants and animals, this resulting in an impoverishment of biological abundance. On the other one, it will also...

Los resultados de la liquidación del nuevo modelo de financiación para el ejercicio 2009 permiten conocer al detalle la distribución de recursos entre las regiones y su comparación con el modelo anterior, señalando como principales beneficiarias aquellas que en el modelo 2001 disponían de...