El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los efectos derivados de la existencia de imperfecciones en los mercados de deuda sobre la evolución del capital productivo de las empresas. Las imperfecciones que se consideran son, la existencia de primas sobre el nivel de endeudamiento, y el...

The purpose of the article is to make a first appraisal of the contribution of the railway of Iberian gauge (Renfe) to the economic development experienced by the Spanish society throughout the second half of the 20th century. The text examine in the first place the benefits obtained by the...

Abortion rates are increasing all around the world, especially for young women. Our proposals for public policies to reduce unwanted pregnancies are based on an analysis of the socio-economic determinants of abortion rates. Special attention is paid to regional levels of alcohol consumption,...

Sexually transmitted diseases pose an important public health problem around the world. Although many studies have explored the link between alcohol use and risky sexual practices, the unobserved differences among individuals make it difficult to assess whether the associations are casual in...

The literature on social norms stresses that compliance with norms is approved while deviance is disapproved. Based on this, we explore the content of social norms using experimental data from five dictator games with a feedback stage. Our data suggests that subjects either care about a...

Este artículo tiene como principal objetivo contabilizar la presencia del capital británico en el desarrollo de los ferrocarriles españoles de vía ancha. Aunque es ampliamente conocido el papel abrumador que jugaron los capitales franceses en la expansión ferroviaria en España, algunos...

This paper analyzes the international transmission of shocks in economies with financial frictions. In a two-country flexible price monetary model with distribution costs in the imported good I study the transmission of shocks to productivity, money supply, government spending and to...

We present in this paper a model that explains the role of the external financing of capital in the evolution of a primitive economy constituted by families and firms. Our aim is to clarify which are the essential financial elements that in more complex and advanced economies could explain the...

Este analiza detenidamente el registro estadístico ferroviario en Andalucía durante el siglo XX. Las características territoriales y administrativas de la región andaluza, y de las compañías ferroviarias que operaron en esta zona del sur de España, permite hacer un balance del sistema...

La demanda de sacarosa incrementó paulatinamente a lo largo del siglo diecinueve determinada fundamentalmente por un incremento de la renta, de la población y por la sustitución de la miel por el azúcar. La producción de coloniales en el siglo XIX sustentó tanto en Java como en Cuba la...