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...

This paper reflects about the invariance property that regional economics is implicitly assuming when “relative” inequality measures, such as the Gini index, are used to quantify the geographic concentration of economic activity. In addition, it proposes a new concentration measure that is...

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....

The objective of this paper is to estimate international tourism demand to Spain separately by major source markets (Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy and The Netherlands) that represent 67% of the international tourism to Spain. In order to investigate how the tourism demand reacts to...