Este trabajo trata de sentar unas bases teóricas para abordar los cambios organizativos en nuestro sistema sanitario, teniendo en cuenta la trayectoria seguida, el escenario internacional y los cambios tecnológicos. La finalidad última del cambio organizativo es la de mejorar el estado de...

Rural municipalities show considerable heterogeneity in relation to their development potential, so the proper characterization of their socioeconomic status is a basic requirement in the design of rural development policies. This working paper shows, in the first place, how this task can be...

This working paper focuses on the influence of two classical engines of population agglomeration: geography versus history. Geography is identified by two co-ordinates: coastal position and altitude. The prominence of history is also captured by two characteristics: the initial size of the...

Recent research point out that higher education has no significant effect upon economic growth. However, the data of many countries show a substantial increase in the salary prize of going to university. Most of the explanations argue that the increase in salary relative to universities is due...

In this working paper we examine variation in financial performance, both across organizational form and through time. Because variation in financial performance may be driven by variation in productivity,we also examine variation in productivity, again across organizational form and through...

This study aims at assessing the effects of social relationships on the survival, functional ability and mental health of the elderly, through a review of the published evidence in international papers and the results of the population longitudinal study Aging in Leganés. The results show that...

The situation of patients on a waiting list and the problem of managing it is an example of the simplest allocation problem: the allocation of indivisible units of a homogeneous good among a set of agents demanding one unit of the good each. This working paper studies this situation, in both a...

This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by interactions between Linux, an...

Most existing studies assessing the management of fisheries fail to check the accuracy of the parameters estimated in reproducing the observed dynamics of the resource. We present an alternative approach: assuming that the stock growth path is affected by productivity shocks that follow a Markov...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union is currently in a state of evolution, where non-productive functions of agriculture are being increasingly recognised. The growing concern for the environmental consequences of farming activity has led European countries to the...