Background. Several different proposals have been made recently to reform the organisation, financing and management of the health care system in Spain. The aim is to obtain improved efficiency, without prejudicing the equity level already achieved, by creating a more competitive framework....

Many recent works have investigated the question of extending a preference over a set of alternatives to its power set, as a way to provide a formal representation of the notion of freedom of choice. In general, the results are limited to the nite case, which excludes the case of economic...

In this paper we first review the available literature on the degree of insurance against shocks, provided by the central budget in the federal systems already existing. Next, we discuss the main points raised on the debate about the implementation of an automatic mechanism designed to cope with...

El objetivo de este documento de trabajo es estimar y analizar la eficiencia tecnica de un conjunto de explotaciones lecheras en una de las zonas pre pirenaica de la Peninsula Iberica. El metodo de analisis consiste en la estimacion de funciones de producción frontera, una parametrica y otra no...

In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effects of a cut in social security contributions (i) for all types of labour, and (ii) only for unskilled labour, within a computable general equilibrium model simulated for the Spanish economy. The model allows firms to follow a...

Este trabajo tiene por objeto analizar el problema de la distribucion interregional de dos fondos de desarrollo: El FCI y el FEDER. Ambos instrumentos, ademas de satisfacer la vocacion compensadora de la politica regional, han de ser repartidos de modo que se tiendan a igualar las oportunidades...

This work analyzes the problem of individual choice of actions under complete uncertainty. In this context, each action consists of a set of dierent possible outcomes with no probability distribution associated with them. The work examines and de nes a class of choice procedures in which: a):...

Objetivos. Analizar cuáles deben ser los criterios clínicos y sociales en base a los cuales deben ser priorizados los pacientes en listas de espera quirúrgicas programadas. Métodos. Se estima un modelo de elección discreta (MED) utilizando una muestra representativa de la población general...

Background: The analysis of the costs of schizophrenia and its treatment under different mental health care structures will facilitate the improved allocation of the limited resources available for the treatment of schizophrenia. The research we present compares health services use and total...

This paper explores the introduction of a variable critical-level in a variable population context. We focus the attention on the "Critical- Level Egalitarian Ruleî, a social evaluation procedure which compares two social states as follows: (i) It reproduces the leximin criterion when applied...