Within the last few years, the main international rating agencies have become even more prominent. They are men¬tioned in different circumstances. Some people think these agencies are managed by international speculators; others consider that their work is too technical and impartial, and...

[ES] Las redes virtuales de fabricación global (RVFGs) están formadas por empresas independientes las cuales establecen entre sí relaciones de tipo horizontal y vertical, pudiendo incluso ser competidores, donde no es necesario mantener internamente grandes recursos fabriles sino gestionar y...

We study a society inside which two official languages, the majority language A and the minority language B, are in contact and compete for the same social functions. We propose a non-cooperative game to capture some features of this competitive situation. In the game, there are two types of...

From the beginning of the war, the Francoist parastate based its socio-political legitimation on the use of violence in the front and in the rearguard. It had a crystal-clear objective: to end with a democratic regime as the Second Republic was. To achieve that, it had to win the war and to get...

Drift appears to be crucial to study the stability properties of Nash equilibria in a component specifying different out-of-equilibrium behaviour. We propose a new microeconomic model of drift to be added to the learning process by which agents find their way to equilibrium. A key feature of the...

In real life strategic interactions, decision-makers are likely to entertain doubts about the degree of optimality of their play. To capture this feature of real choice-making, we present here a model based on the doubts felt by an agent about how well is playing a game. The doubts are coupled...

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar las contribuciones a la modelización del equilibrio general que han sido aplicadas a economías regionales. Se comienza con una descripción de las Matrices de Contabilidad Social construi¬das para las distintas regiones, para a continuación exponer...

The evolution of organizations that work in multinational environments has considerably altered their production strategies. One of the consequences has been the appearance of Global Manufacturing Virtual Networks (GMVNs), which include all kinds of enterprises and production centres and...

We investigate a society with two official languages: A, shared by all individuals and B, spoken by a bilingual mirority. Thus, it is only B that needs t increase its population share, and therefore, only the language dynamics that derive from the intearctions that occur inside the bilingual...

Roughly one half of World's languages are in danger of extinction. The endangered languages, spoken by minorities, typically compete with powerful languages such as En- glish or Spanish. Consequently, the speakers of minority languages have to consider that not everybody can speak their...