Estudios sociológicos recientes sobre patrones de consumo señalan la necesidad de contar con categorías de análisis de tipo cualitativo que permitan entender mejor el significado de las acciones y decisiones del consumidor. Surge así el concepto de estilo de vida como conjunto de prácticas...

The aim of this paper is to empirically determine whether there is a relation between trade openness and public expenditure in Spain using annual long-run data from 1960 to 2000, a period that has witnessed an accelerated process both of openness to the international markets of goods and...

We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean country. We use the the European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994-2001) to estimate, from both pool and fixed-effects methods, a wage equation in terms of observed variables and...

The management of health care systems is facing the problem of long waiting lists in many of the services offered. The use of waiting time as a device for rationing the allocation of medical care does not seem to be a fair and just criterion. The main aim of this paper is the development of a...

The literature on innovation has traditionally seen imitation processes as harmful to the development of new technologies, adverse for growth and detrimental to the welfare of consumers, producers and society at large. However, as we show in our paper, despite this widespread belief, imitation...

This paper follows on from the discussion of Florax, Folmer and Rey (2003) on the advantages and disadvantages of various specification strategies for econometric models in a spatial setting. Habitual practice has popularized a technique based on the well-known Lagrange Multipliers, which seems...

Siguiendo un enfoque similar al de trabajos como Coe y Helpman (1995) Keller (1997) o Frantzen (2000), este estudio estima los efectos de las externalidades tecnológicas internacionales en el crecimiento de la productividad total de los factores (PTF) de diez agregaciones sectoriales de la...

En la última década la teoría de crecimiento endógeno ha generado una segunda generación de modelos para ofrecer una respuesta a las paradojas empíricas surgidas con referencia a la primera generación. Estos modelos se desarrollan en torno a dos propuestas teóricas: la teoría de...

Habida cuenta que las familias visitan regularmente más de un establecimiento comercial a la hora de resolver la compra de productos de uso frecuente, el interés de este trabajo estriba en analizar los factores que subyacen en el comportamiento variado del consumidor considerando un escenario...

The objective of this paper is to analyze whether there are differences in performance between firms that have been privatized and private firms in the EU. We also analyze whether previous ownership (state-owned versus private) and regulation affect capital structure. Focusing on economic...