The growing relevance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) has provoked the development of specialized MFI rating agencies that perform global risk assessments. In this paper we have conjectured different hypotheses pertaining to the relationship between financial indicators and the rating...

En este artículo se lleva a cabo una valoración del sistema de conciertos educativos desde la perspectiva de su contribución efectiva a la igualación de las oportunidades de selección de centro escolar por parte de las familias. Tomando como marco teórico las aportaciones realizadas por...

The objective of the present study is to analyse the causes of the growth of international agricultural and food trade in volume terms from 1951 to 2000. The results suggest that income growth has been the principal reason for this expansion, while exchange rate stability and the real price of...

The paper examines the effects of subcontracting on vertical product differentiation in a spatial competition model. It is shown that the level of differentiation is determined by the consignor’s bargaining power and the ratio of final product transport costs to the cost of the input...

In this paper we use a time use approach to analyze the average effect of aggregate unemployment on the daily life of individuals, focusing on the relationship between reduced market work and additional household production of unemployed individuals. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003,...

La integración de la cultura de la responsabilidad social constituye uno de los ejes centrales de la Estrategia Universidad 2015 como elemento fundamental del compromiso de la Universidad española con la sociedad y con su tiempo. Entre las acciones a acometer, las universidades responsables...

: The empirical classification of daily activities into luxuries, necessities, or inferior activities is useful for predicting the impact of economic development, the life cycle, or social mobility on the organization of people’s time. This paper conducts an empirical examination of three...

: This paper studies the relationship between international diversification and performance in agri-food firms In line with the recent literature, it analyses the effects of the degree of internationalization using a uniform sample, a long-term focus and a measure that combines export intensity...

: Agricultural and food products have been increasingly exchanged during the last half century. With them, water has been virtually transferred among countries. Thus, this paper studies the evolution of virtual water flows on the long term, analyzing the main factors driving them by means of a...

We analyse whether there is a causal relationship between planning suicide and marijuana use among US youths. To that end, we specify a simultaneous probability model which is estimated by maximum likelihood using the YRBS (1999 and 2001). We place emphasis on a number of socio-demographic risk...