. El trabajo analiza los determinantes empíricos del ahorro privado usando como soporte un panel de datos sobre 21 países de la OCDE para el período 1964-2001. De entre los factores considerados, se presta especial atención a la significación y magnitud del impacto de las variables...

En este trabajo estudiamos el efecto sobre el gasto corriente universitario de distintos modelos de gestión del presupuesto, al establecer distintas medidas de control del gasto, tanto en la forma de gestionarlo como con la introducción de mejoras tecnológicas. Para ello se analiza un panel...

We analyze determinants of technology diffusion in the European electric utility sector during the period 1950–1992. Structural, economic, technological, and institutional features were introduced into a hazard model. Kaplan-Meier functions were used for non-parametric estimations.

This paper measures the perceptions of the service quality by both the users and the health centre managers in Spain. With this information, it was possible to calculate the size of Gap-6, proposed by Lewis of discrepancy among the customers' perceptions and the perceptions of health centre...

Patients' perceptions about health services seem to have been largely ignored by health care providers in developing countries. That such perceptions, especially about service quality, might shape confidence and subsequent behaviours with regard to choice and usage of the available health care...