In 2007, various organisations launched the "Beyond GDP" campaign, which aimed to assess complex issues such as social welfare, sustainability and economic development using more indicators, and which resulted in an overwhelming production of sustainability indicators.The authors of this...
This paper presents new estimates of social and economic indicators for Italy and its regions from 1871 to 2007. Data for life expectancy, education, GDP per capita and HDI allow discussing regional figures and analysing the evolution of inequality...
Two of the most prominent traits of the Spanish residential system in recent decades have been the high proportion of owners and the absence of effective policies to promote rental housing. This article argues that the system is undergoing a transformation due to structural demographic...
Researchers from the Department of Business of the UAB and of the University of Birmingham have analysed the productivity of technology-based companies in Spain with the aim of comparing the characteristics of spin-offs with...
Why do some people buy private health insurance when there is a national system of free health services? This article develops a theoretical model and tests its main prediction with data from the UK. The model predicts that if people have better information than...
In late February 2011, the government announced a set of measures to reduce fuel consumption. His forecast was that it fell by 15%. A study based on publicly available information detected that these measures (reduction of prices of train...
