Evolución de la competitividad de la economía española

En este trabajo se analiza la evolución de la competitividad de la economía española desde el año 2000 al 2013 a través de los cambios que se han producidos en los componentes que afectan a este indicador de forma directa como son los flujos comerciales, los precios, la productividad o los costes laborales. Para ello se utilizan los índices de competitividad que se desglosan para lograr un estudio más detallado del comportamiento de sus factores. Uniendo todos los componentes analizados se llega al resultado final de que hasta el estallido de la crisis económica en el 2008 hubo una pérdida de competitividad en precio y costes que junto al aumento de los costes laborales unitarios y el aumento de las exportaciones dio lugar a un fenómeno llamado “la paradoja española”. A partir del año 2008 la tendencia cambió y se produjo un aumento competitivo por la caída de los costes laborales unitarios y el aumento de la productividad.

Labour costs and competitiveness in the Latin American manufacturing sector, 1990-1998

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La productividad industrial, el costo de la mano de obra y el costo de producción en el Istmo Centroamericano = Industrial productivity, labour costs and costs of production in the Central American Isthmus: abridged text

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Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector

This paper analyzes the performance of Dutch drinking water utilities before and after the introduction of sunshine regulation, which involves publication of the performance of utilities but no formal price regulation. By decomposing profit change into its economic drivers, our results suggest that, in the Dutch political and institutional context, sunshine regulation was effective in improving the productivity of publicly organised services. Nevertheless, while sunshine regulation did bring about a moderate reduction in water prices, sustained and substantial economic profits suggest that it may not have the potential to fully align output prices with economic costs in the long run. In methodological terms, the DEA based profit decomposition is extended to robust and conditional non-parametric efficiency measures, so as to account better for both uncertainty and differences in operating environment between utilities.

Triton-He-3 relative and differential flows as probes of the nuclear symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities

Using a transport model coupled with a phase-space coalescence afterburner, we study the triton-He-3 (t-He-3) ratio with both relative and differential transverse flows in semicentral Sn-132 + Sn-124 reactions at a beam energy of 400 MeV/nucleon. The neutron-proton ratios with relative and differential flows are also discussed as a reference. We find that similar to the neutron-proton pairs, the t-He-3 pairs also carry interesting information regarding the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. Moreover, the nuclear symmetry energy affects more strongly the t-He-3 relative and differential flows than the pi(-)/pi(+) ratio in the same reaction. The t-He-3 relative flow can be used as a particularly powerful probe of the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy.

TRITON-(HE)-H-3 RELATIVE AND DIFFERENTIAL FLOWS AND THE HIGH DENSITY BEHAVIOR OF NUCLEAR SYMMETRY ENERGY

Using a transport model coupled with a phase-space coalescence after-burner we study the triton-He-3 relative and differential transverse flows in semi-central Sn-132 + Sn-124 reactions at a beam energy of 400 MeV/nucleon. We find that the triton-He-3 pairs carry interesting information about the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. The t-He-3 relative flow can be used as a particularly powerful probe of the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy.

Inflation and relative prices: the Brazilian experience, 1970/79.

Based on behaviour of output growth and industrial sector prices, it tries to define the several stages comprising the cyclic trends of the Brazilian economy. Analyzes the behaviour of inflation rates and of relative prices, and shows that there is a positive association between the measures of inflation rates and of their variables as well as between both these measures and dispersion of relative price changes. Demonstrates the assymetric behaviour of relative price changes and differentiated behaviour in relative prices of farm produce and industrial products. -from Authors

Inflation and the variability of relative prices in the Caribbean: evidence from panel threshold models

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Relative prices in Latin America in periods of low inflation and structural change

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