A pesar de la importancia del turismo internacional para la economía española, este sector ha sido muy poco estudiado. Es por esta razón que el principal objetivo de nuestro estudio es el de construir un modelo econométrico robusto que nos permita (i) conocer las variables más importantes...

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...

Why does the leftist party vote increase when turnout increases in some countries and not in others? Why does this happen in some instances in time but not in others? Thus far there exists no academic consensus on the relationship between turnout and electoral results. This paper argues that in...

La dependencia alcohólica no solo reduce la esperanza de vida, sino que también provoca importantes pérdidas de calidad de vida en el dependiente y en las personas de su entorno. Este documento muestra nueva evidencia sobre el impacto de la dependencia alcohólica sobre la calidad de vida...

To determine whether individuals take into account sunk costs when making deci- sions, Thaler (1980, p.48) conducted an experiment in which anonymous individuals decided to enter an \all-you-can-eat" pizza restaurant; a random selection of those customers was given back the $2.50 they had paid....

In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of the patient's age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it. In this paper we discuss the possibility of weighting...

This paper examines the approach to consumption of medicines in interview-based surveys across seven countries of the European Union. The goals of the study are to provide information on the accurateness of different surveys for microeconomic analysis of pharmaceutical demand offered by...

In a spatial model with quantity setting firms, we analyze the possibility of cooperation in a long term relationship, where firms compete in location. It is found that endogeneizing the location decisions makes collusion more difficult.

The goal of this study was to use census information to measure the level of occupational segregation of workers of African descent compared to whites in various Latin American countries. I further investigated the extent to which segregation levels can be accounted for by different factors,...

The Lead Time Trade-Off (L-TTO) is a variant of the TTO method which attempts to overcome some of the problems of the most widely used method for health states worse than death (SWD). Theoretically, the new method reduces the problems detected when researchers have elicited preferences for SWD....