Con este trabajo se pretende cubrir una parcela del comercio exterior que suele permanecer al margen de la investigación económica: el comercio de servicios. En suma, cuando hacemos alusión al comercio exterior con frecuencia restringimos nuestro análisis al comercio de bienes, algo hasta...

Bolivia is one of the countries on the American continent with the lowest rates of access to water, a situation that has caused confrontation between civil society and water utility managers in some cities. This research describes the water access scenario in Sucre, the capital of Bolivia,...

The analysis of efficiency in the management of urban water services offers valuable information both for the managers of this service and for public bodies in order to introduce improvements in business practices and in the design of public policies. Since the pioneering study carried out by...

This paper analyses the evolution of the leading market social economy organisations in Spain since the Constitution of 1978. The first part concerns a study of co-operatives and workers societies; the second refers to mutual societies. An analysis of the institutional framework, this sector's...

This paper studies the relative performance of domestic and foreign banks in the Latin American and Caribbean banking industry. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compute technical efficiency scores for the years 2001 and 2013. Our main contribution is twofold. On the one hand, we assess...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate that, under certain assumptions, the influence of unemployment benefits (UB) on the efficiency in labour allocation depends crucially on the way UB affect Job search. Individual Job search is influenced by UB in a twofold way: decreasing search intensity...

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms producers of wooden goods, in presence of non desirable outputs. As main results, we find that the consideration of several restrictions on the expansion of non desirable outputs...