Blanca Moreno Cuartas

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Applied Economics

Este trabajo procura analizar las pautas de la desigualdad de renta y los factores determinantes de su evolución en países de América Latina durante el período 2004-2013. Inicialmente, se determina la desigualdad en el reparto del ingreso en algunos países de América Latina mediante el índice de Theil y se observa que en la mayoría de ellos la desi...

Regional information about gross domestic product or gross added value is usually available with annual frequency. However, higher-frequency data at regional level is not so frequently available. This type of information is essential in order to (i) monitor the economic situation and (ii) forecast future values of regional output. The application o...

In competitive electricity markets, the growth of electricity generated by renewable sources will reduce the market price of electricity assuming marginal cost pricing. However, small renewable distributed generation (RDG) alone cannot modify the formation of electricity prices. By aggregating small RDG units into a Virtual Power Plants (as a singl...

This article analyses patterns of income inequality and its determinants in the countries of Latin America in the period 2004-2013. First, income distribution in several countries is determined using the Theil index and is found to have decreased over the study period. An econometric panel data model is then employed to study the determinants of th...

Residential electricity consumption constitutes one of the largest sources of Spanish final energy demand. To improve electricity savings, policies oriented towards efficiency in residential consumption, such as replacement of appliances or the construction of nearly-zero energy buildings, have been suggested and implemented. However, the potential...

A combined forecast of Grey forecasting method and neural network back propagation model, which is called Grey Neural Network and Input-Output Combined Forecasting Model (GNF-IO model), is proposed. A real case of energy consumption forecast is used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model. The GNF-IO model predicts coal, crude oil, natu...

This paper investigates the relationship between carbon dioxide prices and the Spanish electricity sector stock market by estimating a cointegrated Vector Error-Correction Model (VECM). Stock market returns of firms, CO2 and other fuel (gas, oil and coal) prices are jointly modelled as endogenous variables using daily data from January 2008 to Dece...

In the last decade, new methodologies have been introduced in higher education, based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with the aim of promoting a new teaching based on learning. Moreover, the new standards under the European Higher Education Area, show the relevance of using the concept of competences as a basis for learning o...

One of the objectives of the European Higher Education Area is to promote student mobility. Mobility brings economic benefits for sending and receiving countries, improves the international curricula for students going abroad, and also increases the internationalisation for home students as they work in diverse national cultures. Therefore, as both...

RESUMEN El sector energético está experimentando transformaciones sustanciales como consecuencia del desarrollo de las energías renovables, cuyo impulso no sólo aporta beneficios ambientales, sino que también reduce la dependencia energética y contribuye a la creación de empleo. En este trabajo realizamos un análisis prospectivo del empleo en el...

The aim of the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases emissions. In this context, it is very important to characterize the economic sectors according to environmental indicators to properly design environmental policies; Moreover, it could be advisable to analyze the emissions that directly and indirectly are generated by econom...

This paper explores the use of a maximum entropy econometric approach to combine forecasts when the small amount of information available does not allow the use of regression procedures since a dimensionality problem arises. This approach has its roots in information theory and builds on the entropy information measures and the classical maximum en...

The European Union electricity market has been gradually liberalized since 1990s. Theoretically, competitive markets should lead to efficiency gains in the economy thus reducing electricity prices. However, there is a controversial debate about the real effects of the electricity liberalization on electricity prices. Moreover, the increased generat...

Universities and higher education centres across Europe are undertaking reforms to construct the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). One of the EHEA priorities is to make transparent the relationship between university education and transferable skills. It follows in the development of a competence based model for curriculum in universities. Ass...

Debates and policies in the world about the diversity of higher education institutions and educational systems quality have changed substantially over the years. In 1999, the Bologna Declaration was signed to establish a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010. The Bologna process supposes an attempt to increase mobility and improve the compa...

In recent years, we are witnessing a process of liberalization in the electricity industry in order to introduce competition into the sector. However market opening does not necessarily imply effective competition and competitive pricing. The special characteristics of this industry in Spain make it easier to exercise market power, so that there ar...

The European Union Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS), initially proposed by the European Council in Gothenburg in 2001 and renewed in June 2006, aims at the continuous improvement of the quality of life for current and future generations. The strategy focuses on issues such as climate change, social equity and cohesion, public health and po...

La Teoría de la Información proporciona un marco de gran potencial para la obtención de predicciones combinadas a partir de la optimización de medidas de incertidumbre. Así, la aplicación del principio de máxima entropía para las predicciones cuantitativas nos permite, en un contexto de escasa información, estimar ponderaciones que calibran de modo...

RESUMEN El sector energético está experimentando transformaciones sustanciales como consecuencia del desarrollo de las energías renovables, cuyo impulso no sólo aporta beneficios ambientales, sino que también reduce la dependencia energética y contribuye a la creación de empleo. En este trabajo realizamos un análisis prospectivo del empleo en el...

La diversidad de organismos dedicados a los análisis de prospectiva hace posible disponer de un amplio abanico de predicciones para el crecimiento económico, sugiriendo la conveniencia de llevar a cabo un resumen de las mismas mediante algún mecanismo de combinación. En este trabajo desarrollamos un nuevo procedimiento de combinación de prediccione...

En este trabajo se estudia la utilidad del Indicador de Clima industrial (ICI) para predecir los puntos de giro en los ciclos de la actividad industrial española. La evidencia empírica disponible indica que el Indicador de Clima industrial (ICI) puede adelantar los movimientos de la producción industrial en el corto plazo. Puesto que la presencia d...

En este trabajo se estudia la utilidad del Indicador de Clima industrial (ICI) para predecir los puntos de giro en los ciclos de la actividad industrial española. La evidencia empírica disponible indica que el Indicador de Clima industrial (ICI) puede adelantar los movimientos de la producción industrial en el corto plazo. Puesto que la presencia d...

La diversidad de organismos dedicados a los análisis de prospectiva hace posible disponer de un amplio abanico de predicciones para una misma variable económica, sugiriendo la conveniencia de llevar a cabo un resumen de las mismas mediante algún mecanismo de combinación. Generalmente, la predicción combinada suele obtenerse a partir de un vector de...

RESUMEN El estudio de la evolución futura de la economía es un tema de considerable interés para los diversos agentes económicos, por lo que cada vez son más numerosos los organismos dedicados a la elaboración de predicciones sobre el crecimiento económico. Las predicciones pueden realizarse tanto desde un enfoque objetivo (técnicas estadístico-eco...