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Mixed Blessing? EP Oversight of the ESDP and the Constitutional Treaty
As commonly held, the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) suffers from a "double democratic deficit": the EP has a marginal role in the ESDP-making process and the national parliaments remain unable to account for ...
Calidad de servicio en la enseñanza universitaria : desarrollo y validación de una escala de medida
En los últimos años se ha desarrollado un concepto operativo de la calidad de servicio que permite la elaboración de escalas para su medición que han sido aplicadas a diferentes tipos de servicios. Sin embargo, la literatura ...
The spatial effect of intra-metropolitan agglomeration economies
This study deals with the role of spatial accessibility to agglomeration economies in the change in spatial structure of industrial employment for the case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (BMR). Using the ...
Asymmetric standing facilities : an unexploited monetary policy tool
This paper analyzes the role of standing facilities in the determination of the demand for reserves in the overnight money market. In particular, we study how the asymmetric nature of the deposit and lending facilities ...
Party competition in regional elections : a framework for analysis
Whilst scholars have long recognised that processes of decentralisation create new regional arenas where distinct patterns of party competition are likely to emerge, there has been little systematic analysis of the dynamics ...
Rethinking optimal currency areas
The traditional Mundellian criterion, which implicitly assumes commitment to monetary policy, is that countries with similar shocks should form unions. Without such commitment a new criterion emerges: countries with ...
Immigration and Firm Growth : Evidence from Spanish cities
This article analyses the effect of immigration flows on the growth and efficiency of manufacturing firms in Spanish cities. To date, most studies have tended to focus on the effect immigrants have on labour markets at an ...
A Descriptive and analytic look at Marx's own explanations of the falling rate of profit (second version)
This paper examines, both descriptively and analytically, Marx's arguments for the falling rate of profit from the Hodgskin section of Theories of Surplus Value, The General Law section of the recently published Volume 33 ...
Job losses, outsourcing and relocation : empirical evidence using microdata
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and conventional outsourcing decisions as a way to reduce employment. The results for a sample of 32 countries show the relevance of factors not considered ...
Welfare implications of the interaction between habits and consumption externalities
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The structure of employment opportunities for women in 11 European cities
The FLOWS (Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion) project has been funded under the EU FP7 program, grant Agreement no: 266806
An empirical analysis of wealth taxation : equity vs.tax compliance
Capital taxation is currently under debate, basically due to problems of administrative control and proper assessment of the levied assets. We analyze both problems focusing on a capital tax, the annual wealth tax (WT), ...
El análisis demográfico desde la perspectiva de género
Ponència presentada en el Simposi Las políticas de igualdad de género: nuevos desafíos y estrategias, celebrat a Toledo, el 24 de febrer de 2011.
Power capacity: A key element in sustainability assessment
In the field of complex energetics, human societies to survive follow the same 'maximum power principle' as other living systems. In this view, human societies developed because they have been able to increase 'their ...
Growth, selection and appropriate contracts
We study a dynamic model where growth requires both long-term investment and the selection of talented managers. When ability is not ex-ante observable and contracts are incomplete, managerial selection imposes a cost, as ...
La Mayor dotación de capital humano y sus problemas de adaptación en el mercado de trabajo español, 1986-2005
Desde 1975 y sobre todo a partir de su incorporación a la Unión Europea en 1986, los cambios que se han producido en la estructura económica y productiva española han favorecido la convergencia de la mayoría de sus indicadores ...
A maximal domain of preferences for tops-only rules in the division problem
The division problem consists of allocating an amount M of a perfectly divisible good among a group of n agents. Sprumont (1991) showed that if agents have single-peaked preferences over their shares, the uniform rule is ...
Educación y crecimiento : un panorama
Este trabajo es un panorama de la literatura empírica que ha analizado la relación entre educación y crecimiento económico. Tras esbozar el marco teórico que ha orientado la mayor parte de los estudios sobre el tema, se ...
Measuring fiscal policy spillovers in the Euro area
We study fiscal policy coordination and fiscal policy spillovers in Germany, France, Spain and Italy using a Time-Varying Coefficients VAR model for the period 1995-2014. While the four country-specific cycles share large ...
