International trade is a major channel for technology diffusion. However regressing trade in R&D intensive goods to evaluate the effect of technology imports on productivity in a cross section of countries may be misleading because of simultaneity bias. I identify the effect of technology trade...

Durante los últimos 20 años, el sistema redistributivo español ha sufrido grandes cambios. En 1999, el Partido Popular introdujo una nueva Ley y el debate académico y político sobre sus efectos sobre la igualdad y la eficiencia aún está abierto. En el presente trabajo pretendemos analizar...

Nowadays some Public Administrations are reforming their information systems in order to adapt them to new needs of public management. In this sense, Budget as the main management tool needs to be part of these reforms. There are only a few number of countries that have adopted a results based...

Inclan and Tiao (1994) proposed a test for the detection of changes of the unconditional variance which has been used in financial time series analysis. In this article we show some serious drawbacks for using this test with this type of data. Specifically, it su.ers important size distortions...

Most western countries started to reform their public management in the eighties. These reform processes are known as New Public Management (NPM). Although, the depth and scope of the changes are not the same in all countries, they show common characteristics. This paper reviews such...

En el presente trabajo se analizan los efectos que han tenido sobre la desigualdad, la redistribución y la pobreza las recientes reformas del IRPF en Baleares. Los datos provienen de los registros fiscales suministrados por IEF-AEAT: muestra de declarantes y no declarantes del IRPF de 2006. Los...

The economic effects of the migration of skilled workers from developing countries are highly controversial in the theoretical literature. Traditional models on the brain drain phenomenon stress the negative impact on growth, while new models introduce the possibility of a brain gain for labor...

In this paper we analyse, from a theoretical perspective, the effects of some of the initiatives implemented in Spain aimed at improving the scientific output in the Spanish Universities. Our results show that those incentives that represent a reduction of the teaching-hours or that represent an...