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Una visión demográfica de la movilidad residencial reciente en España
Se describen los principales indicadores de la movilidad residencial en España siguiendo un enfoque de demografía residencial, a partir de la información del Censo de 2001. Se destaca el aumento de la movilidad residencial ...
La Defensa de la Unión Europea : voluntades políticas y capacidades militares
Estudio sobre el presente y el futuro de la defensa de la Unión Europea a partir de un análisis de la evolución de la política europea de seguridad y defensa, desde sus inicios en la inmediata posguerra mundial hasta la ...
Seeds of hope : Assessing the effect of development aid on the reduction of child mortality
The Millennium Declaration (2000) set as one of its targets a substantial reduction in child mortality. This paper studies whether the massive increase in development aid can account for part of the reduction in child ...
Scheduled service versus personal transportation : the role of distance
This paper analyzes both theoretically and empirically the relationship between distance and frequency of scheduled transportation services. We study the interaction between a monopoly firm providing high-speed scheduled ...
Ecological conflicts and valuation - mangroves vs. shrimp in the late 1990s
Shrimps are produced in two different ways. They are fished in the sea (sometimes at the cost of turtle destruction) or they are "farmed" in ponds in coastal areas. Such aquaculture is increasing around the world as shrimps ...
Distribution center consolidation games
We study the location-inventory model as introduced by Teo et al. (2001) to analyze the impact of consolidation of distribution centers on facility and inventory costs. We extend their result on profitability of consolidation. ...
Fiscal transfers in a monetary union with sovereign risk
This paper considers a scheme of fiscal transfers between member states of a monetary union subject to sovereign spread shocks. The scheme consists of a set of cross-country transfer rules triggered when sovereign spreads ...
Más allá de la ley de May : disparidades curvilíneas y conflicto intrapartidista. El caso de Cataluña
Este artículo pretende contribuir al debate sobre el papel que desempeñan los adherentes y activistas y, de modo especial, a intentar plantear de nuevo el problema de su influencia dentro del partido. Para ello se revisa ...
Highway traffic in Britain: The effect of road capacity changes
Altres ajuts: Financial support from Pasaporte a la Ciencia (Convocatoria No 5-2019, FOCO SOCIEDAD - Reto 4: Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible) of the Colombia Científica Program and COLFUTURO (programa crédito-beca 2019)
A non-possibility theorem for joint-stability in interindustry models
Joint-stability in interindustry models relates to the mutual simultaneous consistency of the demand-driven and supply-driven models of Leontief and Ghosh, respectively. Previous work has claimed joint-stability to be an ...
La Política mundial de población en el siglo XX
Los rasgos principales de la actual situación demográfica mundial suelen exponerse de manera aséptica, proporcionando estadísticas e indicadores sobre volúmenes poblacionales, ritmos de crecimiento, niveles de mortalidad ...
The Impact of prevention measures and organisational factors on occupational injuries
This paper analyses the impact of a series of managerial and organisational factors on occupational injuries. These consist of occupational safety measures, as regards both the intensity and the orientation of risk prevention ...
ParallelKnoppix - Rapid deployment of a linux cluster for MPI parallel processing using non-dedicated computers
This note describes ParallelKnoppix, a bootable CD that allows creation of a Linux cluster in very little time. An experienced user can create a cluster ready to execute MPI programs in less than 10 minutes. The computers ...
Failed remedies and implications of the economic crisis in Spain
In this paper we critically re-examine the current debate about the crisis and exit strategies. The starting point is the need to re-focus on the structural problems facing the Spanish economy paying particular attention ...
D2.1 Data availability report
The data availability report presents the database of European funded projects that support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive. Additionally, the report presents the applied criteria ...
Per què l'esport importa
L'esport sempre ha importat als mitjans de comunicació (Boyle i Haynes, 2009; Brookes, 2002; Rowe, 2004). En l'era digital dels mitjans de comunicació, hem passat d'una època d'escassetat a l'abundància potencial de ...
