In a recent work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) present a methodology for measuring the contribution of tourism to economic growth and apply this methodology to the cases of Cyprus, Greece and Spain. The method uses the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and disaggregates...

The growth of the tourism sector in the last years, and in particular of the accommodation industry, has increased the importance of investment on the quality of tourism services. In this respect, the environmental quality of destination, has become a tool that hotels have to hold the tourism...

This paper extends the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model of optimal capital accumulation in discrete time by introducing a generic population growth law that satisfies the following properties: population is strictly increasing and bounded, and the population growth rate is decreasing to zero as...

The growth of the tourism sector in the last years, and in particular of the accommodation industry, has increase the importance of investment on the quality of tourism services. In this sense, environmental quality of destination is a tool that hotels have to hold the tourist demand. In this...

This paper studies an extension of the Ramsey growth model of optimal capital accumulation in discrete time by departing from the standard assumption of constant population growth rate. More concretely, this rate is assumed to be decreasing over time and a general population growth law with this...

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences before knowing their priorities at schools. A student self-selects if she decides not to apply to some schools despite being desirable. We give a theoretical explanation for this...