The article is the second in a series that will treat underlying conditions to generate a production function. The importance of production functions is fundamental to analyze and forecast the various indicators that highlights different aspects of the production process. How often forgets that...

We generalize the normalized Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function by allowing the elasticity of substitution to vary isoelastically with (i) relative factor shares, (ii) marginal rates of substitution, (iii) capital–labor ratios, or (iv) capital–output ratios....

This paper presents a family of multidimensional poverty indices that measure poverty as a function of the extent and the intensity of poverty. I provide a unique axiomatics from which both extent and intensity of poverty can be derived, as well as the poor be endogenously identified. This...

This paper presents a family of multidimensional poverty indices that measure poverty as a function of the extent and the intensity of poverty. I provide a unique axiomatics from which both extent and intensity of poverty can be derived, as well as the poor be endogenously identified. This...

Рассматривается возможность применения модели межвременного выбора И. Фишера для определения оптимальных условий реализации дорогостоящего товара...

La gran protagonista de la política de transporte de España, la alta velocidad ferroviaria, ha alcanzado su mayor esplendor al convertirse –a finales de 2010– en la mayor red de la UE y la OCDE. Sin embargo, las decisiones de política de inversión se han tomado en un contexto carente de...

This paper analyses the behaviour of real interest rates in the Spanish economy between 1990 and 2005. Since inflation-indexed bonds are not available, changes in implicit real interest rates are estimated using several approaches suggested by macroeconomic and financial theory. In particular,...