The Alberta Dilemma: Optimal Sharing of a Water Resource by an Agricultural and an Oil Sector

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the optimal time paths of production and water usage by an agricultural and an oil sector that have to share a limited water resource. We show that for any given water stock, if the oil stock is sufficiently large, it will become optimal to have a phase during which the agricultural sector is inactive. This may mean having an initial phase during which the two sectors are active, then a phase during which the water is reserved for the oil sector and the agricultural sector is inactive, followed by a phase during which both sectors are active again. The agricultural sector will always be active in the end as the oil stock is depleted and the demand for water from the oil sector decreases. In the case where agriculture is not constrained by the given natural inflow of water once there is no more oil, we show that oil extraction will always end with a phase during which oil production follows a pure Hotelling path, with the implicit price of oil net of extraction cost growing at the rate of interest. If the natural inflow of water does constitute a constraint for agriculture, then oil production never follows a pure Hotelling path, because its full marginal cost must always reflect not only the imputed rent on the finite oil stock, but also the positive opportunity cost of water.

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UNIFICATION OF GERMANY: 1815-1871. PART 2: THE SHARE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN THE ECONOMY..

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Informalidad y racionalidad económica-laboral en la zona metropolitana de Monterrey 1995-2004 : nuevos paradigmas del empleo en el sector informal

Tesis (Doctor en Ciencias sociales con orientación en desarrollo sustentable) UANL, 2007

Providing Genetic Testing Through the Private Sector: A View From Canada

Genetic testing technologies are rapidly moving from the research laboratory to the market place. Very little scholarship considers the implications of private genetic testing for a public health care system such as Canada’s. It is critical to consider how and if these tests should be marketed to, and purchased by, the public. It is also imperative to evaluate the extent to which genetic tests are or should be included in Canada’s public health care system, and the impact of allowing a two-tiered system for genetic testing. A series of threshold tests are presented as ways of clarifying whether a genetic test is morally appropriate, effective and safe, efficient and appropriate for public funding and whether private purchase poses special problems and requires further regulation. These thresholds also identify the research questions around which professional, public and policy debate must be sustained: What is a morally acceptable goal for genetic services? What are the appropriate benefits? What are the risks? When is it acceptable that services are not funded under health care? And how can the harms of private access be managed?

Impacto del programa de desarrollo rural de alianza para el campo en el sector agrícola de la región sureste del estado de Coahuila desde una perspectiva de sustentabilidad.

Tesis (Doctor en Filosofía con especialidad en Administración) UANL, 2010.

Factores clave para el proceso de gestión de la innovación en el desarrollo de nuevos productos para el sector PYMES, estudio cluster de tecnologías de información en Nuevo León.

Tesis (Doctor en Filosofía con Especialidad en Administración) UANL, 2010.

Elementos operativos de productividad que impactan al proceso de rotación de inventarios. Caso : empresas micro y pequeñas del sector manufacturero, sub sector metal-mecánico del área metropolitana de Nuevo León.

Tesis (Doctor en Filosofía con Especialidad en Administración) UANL, 2011.

El impacto del costeo basado en actividades (CBA), en el desempeño de las empresas manufactureras del sector acero de México.

Tesis (Doctorado en Contaduría) UANL, 2011.

Factores que intervienen en el desarrollo de las PyMes del sector manufacturero en cinco municipios del área metropolitana de Monterrey, afiliadas a la CAINTRA.

Tesis (Doctor en Filosofía con Especialidad en Administración) UANL, 2012.

Cambios en las condiciones laborales de médicos y enfermeras del sector de la salud en México y Nuevo León : un enfoque de trabajo decente.

Tesis (Doctora en Ciencias Sociales con Orientación en Desarrollo Sustentable) UANL, 2013.

Federalismo y descentralización : el caso del sector agropecuario en Nuevo León.

Tesis (Doctor en Ciencias Sociales con Orientación en Desarrollo Sustentable) UANL, 2011.

Los factores críticos en la resolución de controversias comerciales : las PYMES en el sector maquiladoras en Nuevo León.

Tesis (Doctorado en Filosofía con Especialidad en Administración) UANL, 2013.

Activos intangibles en el sector de supermercados y su impacto al desempeño financiero.

Tesis (Doctor en Contaduría) UANL, 2013.

Companies’ practices and social responsibility: cases of companies in the French tourist sector

This article examines the firms’practices in the French tourist sector. By confronting the concepts defined in the literature on the social responsibility and what really happens in companies, the current research shows that the studied firms implement a minimal social responsibility which remains well below the expectation level of some stakeholders. This situation is explained by several factors, namely structural. Finally, the paper suggests ways to improve the concept of social responsibility.