[EN] This paper analyzes the effects of optimal taxation on a polluting monopolist who produces a durable good and cannot precommit to future sale prices. The government establishes the taxes that maximize social welfare, measured as the present value of the sum of consumer surplus plus...

The sole ownership solution is an incentive to conserve collective goods but at the same time it can induce a lost of social utility. In the present work the sole ownership solution is analyzed and a synthesis of the problems of inefficiency associated with the exploitation of collective goods...

Current regulation of smoking in Spain (Law 28 /2005) defines and reallocates environmental property rights in favour of nonsmokers. From this point of view, it is important to analyze the social desirability of maximizing the utility of a category of individuals knowing that this requires the...

The goal of this report is to predict what might be the negative effects on the Balearic tourist economy caused by mining oil fields off its coasts. To that end, it evaluates the destructive potential of different types of pedictable spills using data from well-documented spills. The second part...

Because of the importance of the energy sector's development for the performance and stability of the economy, its analysis has become an intriguing branch of the economic sciences. For this study it should be tested the characteristics of each of the industries that comprise it, as well as make...

En los últimos años se asiste a un notable consenso internacional acerca de la relevancia de la inversión en nuevas tecnologías y en actividades de innovación como medio para fomentar el crecimiento de largo plazo de la economía. Este artículo tiene como principal objetivo contrastar...

Este trabajo esta encaminado a analizar demandas de agentes originadas en un laboratorio por medio de la teoría de preferencias reveladas (WARP). La decisión de los agentes será el consumo de un bien privado y de un bien público. El precio del bien privado se determinará aleatoriamente por...

The goal of this report is to predict what might be the negative effects on the Balearic tourist economy caused by mining oil fields off its coasts. To that end, it evaluates the destructive potential of different types of pedictable spills using data from well-documented spills. The second part...

La valoración de los bienes de no mercado se constituye en un nuevo campo de estudio en el análisis económico, consolidado en el ámbito de los recursos naturales y por ahora con muy pocas aplicaciones entre los elementos del patrimonio cultural. En este trabajo se presentan los métodos de...

The article describes an application of contingent valuation to estimate welfare losses caused by noise pollution in the railway line connecting Galicia and Portugal. In addition, temporary specification related to the payment vehicle in the valuation and the internationally used rating scales...