Author/s: Lanzilotta, Bibiana; Juan Gabriel Brida, Bibiana Lanzilotta, Fiorella Pizzolo
Date: 2020
Ch.7 "Strategies in Sustainable Tourism, Economic Growth and Clean Energy"
Editors: Daniel Balsalobre-LorenteOana M. DrihaMuhammad Shahbaz
Springer Ed.
Juan Carlos nunca se planteaba un problema historiográfico importante sin después abordar la investigación apelando, además de a un trabajo teórico consistente y a un recorrido historiográfico completo, a un estudio de las fuentes que pudieran medir y dar cuenta, hasta el detalle, de lo que se quería observar y analizar.
Editorial: World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research
The relationship between air transport development and economic growth has been recently analysed in the economic literature. Most of the empirical research focuses in the identification of linear linkages and causalities between these variables (controlling or not by other macro variables). Previous research performed for a set of Latin-American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay) suggests that for the last two countries, nonlinear long-run cointegration relationships exist between transport and economic growth. The present study focuses on the identification of the nonlinearities underlay in those relationships and proposes a model to represent them. The methodology used in this paper combines cointegration concepts with asymmetric adjustment threshold models. In both cases, the nonlinearity is modelled on the dynamics of the adjustment to the long-run cointegration path between the variables, from transitory situations of disequilibrium. It is shown that M-TAR adjustment mechanism to the long-run equilibrium is suitable to describe the long-run relationship in the case of Uruguay. However, in the case of Chile, the evidence founded is not clear in favour to a nonlinear model with asymmetric adjustment.
The production cost of biofuels is a major determinant of their potential contribution as alternative sources of energy. This chapter provides a review of the literature on production costs of first and second generation biofuels, including a breakdown of their main components. In the process we highlight some of the resasons behind the widely divergent cost estimates that have been published.
This study contributes to the policy dabate on the consequence of the expansion of social safety nets in Latin America region by analyzing the potential effects on informality of recent extension of health coverage to the dependants of formal workers (i.e., to be registered and contribute to the social security system) in Uruguay as part of a 2008 policy reform.
Republished in The Economics Of Worker Cooperatives edited by John H. Pencavel.
This article presents new econometric evidence on the comparative behavior of worker cooperatives and capitalist firms, highlighting the differences in wages and employment responses. We use a comprehensive panel data set that covers the entire population of cooperatives and their capitalist counterparts registered in the social security records in Uruguay from April 1996 to December 2005. We analyze the data to study the employment and wage decisions in both types of enterprises, the results of which suggests that their adjustment mechanisms to idiosyncratic price changes and macroeconomic shocks may differ greatly. The data set also allows us to estimate wage and employment variations for members and non-members of cooperatives separately, and provides an empirical test for the so-called degeneration hypothesis. Our findings are broadly consistent with previous studies for Italian cooperatives and plywood cooperatives in the United States. As studies of this kind are so few, our research provides a significant contribution to the empirical literature on labor managed firms. Moreover, comparing worker cooperatives and capitalist firms offers an exceptional opportunity to determine how control by workers may lead to different organizational behavior.
Las organizaciones nacen, se desarrollan y potencialmente mueren. En este sentido, puede decirse que toda organización económica presenta un ciclo de vida. Asimismo, las organizaciones económicas pueden clasificarse en función de quién ejerza el control último dentro de ellas. El presente artículo presenta una comparación de la evolución de distintos estadísticos demográficos para el universo de cooperativas de trabajadores y empresas capitalistas uruguayas.