In this paper we study economic research in Spain from 1995 to 1999 using EconLit. First we compare economic research in Spain with respect to the whole world. Later, we rank several Spanish institutions following different criteria, as for instance the impact factor and the Half Life index of...

We study in this paper mechanisms to construct equal-opportunity policies for resource allocation. In a model where individuals enjoy welfare as a function of the e ort they expend, and the amount of a socially provided resource they consume, the aim is to allocate the social resource so that...

The economic evaluation of health care programs can be carried out from two different perspectives: the hospital’s narrow perspective and the social perspective, which includes all costs. It is well known that, depending on the perspective, the economic evaluation may lead to discrepant...