The study of the Irati hydroelectric company aims to show some of the business strategies behind the first stages of the development of electricity in Spain and, in turn, pose new questions regarding the factors and conditioning elements of the country’s regional industrialization processes....

This paper’s objective is to take a more in-depth look at, and encourage debate on, the mechanism that were in force in the birth, growth and crisis of traditional electrical systems. The merit of Arteta, as with other SMEs in the electrical sector, resided in its ability to provide, almost...

En los últimos cuarenta y cinco años la Argentina ha transitado un largo período de bajo dinamismo durante el cual se registraron al menos cuatro diferentes patrones económicosociales. Sin embargo, el país no ha acertado en sus diferentes intentos de lograr un patrón de crecimiento...

The "recovered businesses" are firms that after facing economic difficulties to continue to operate have been managed by staff with the clear intention to continue the operation with auto-coordination, usually taking the form of Cooperative Work. This phenomenon has intensively taken place after...

The document presents an analysis, developed under the framework of conflict theory, which models the choice of ownership structure as the result of a power struggle between the owner of a firm and potential shareholders. The theoretical model suggests that, when the system that protects...

The paper seeks to integrate the theoretical developments in the field of imperfect competition and monopoly, and operation of the firm in such conditions, with the theories of income distribution, particularly among the macroeconomic aggregates of capital and labor. And formulating a working...

Electricity prices have seen a consistent upward trend since the implementation of Mexico's electricity market reform (RME). This has been interpreted by some as a failure of the RME. In this paper we study the determinants of such price increases. We calculate the generation cost curve of the...

Antitrust law plays a fundamental role in promoting efficient markets and safeguarding consumer interests. In this regard, economic analysis has become a crucial tool for assessing firms' conduct and the potential anticompetitive effects of their actions in markets and consumer welfare. This...

This paper analyses the problem about regulation access charges when there is a natural monopoly which has to be used by several companies in order to provide other services. for instance, long distance calls requires to have access to the local telephone network, generally considered as a...

This paper studies the pricing policy of gasoline in Colombia from when it was subsidized until recent years. It uses the economic theory of the public sector to outline the changes which occurred in the central government in terms of technical pricing. It also emphasizes the role played by the...