En las grandes áreas metropolitanas, la red de transporte público es esencial para un buen funcionamiento de la movilidad y difícilmente tiene sustituto. Tras el impacto de la COVID-19, el transporte público del área metropolitana de Barcelona se enfrenta al reto de si será capaz de seguir garantizando la movilidad....

Las infraestructuras de transporte, siempre que estén adecuadamente planificadas, tienen un impacto positivo en el crecimiento económico de una región. Bajo este supuesto, en las últimas décadas la inversión en proyectos de transporte ha sido una política prioritaria en la agenda de muchos gobiernos. No obstante, a pesar del elevado...

This paper estimates the role that technological change and car characteristics have played in the rate of fuel consumption of vehicles over time. Using data from the Spanish car market from 1988 to 2013, we estimate a reduced form equation that relates fuel consumption with a set of car characteristics....

The aim of this paper is to study both the private and the social desirability of a mixed bundling strategy that generates a cost savings effect. We confirm that mixed bundling is the dominant strategy for multiproduct firms, although it may give rise to a prisoner’s dilemma. Moreover, we show...

We empirically estimate the effects of regulated access prices and firms’ multinational status on firm performance by using firm, corporate group, and country level information for the European broadband market between 2002 and 2010. Three measures of firm performance are used, namely: market share, turnover and productivity. Special attention is...

Using a panel of 48 provinces for four years we empirically analyze a series of temporary policies aimed at curbing fuel consumption implemented in Spain between March and June 2011. The first policy was a reduction in the speed limit in highways. The second policy was an increase in the...