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Esta tesis consta de tres ensayos basados en microeconometria, teoria de redes y desarrollo económico. En los primeros dos me focalizo en paises en desarrollo (Tanzania y Nepal respectivamente) por estudiar como los habitantes de zonas rurales forman redes sociales, y cómo la existencia de estos lazos informales afecta su bienestar. El tercer ensayo se centra en el comercio internacional de armas e investiga si la orientación política del gobierno tiene un impacto sobre la politica de exportacion de armamentos. ; This thesis contains three essays on microeconometrics, networks and economic development. In the first two essays I focus on developing country settings (Tanzania and Nepal respectively) to study how rural villagers form their social networks, and how the existence of these informal links impacts their welfare. The third essay focuses on the international trade of weapons to investigate whether the political orientation of government in power makes any difference to arms export policy.

This book presents a theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods. The new edition updates and expands the discussion of externalities and their implications, coverage of asymmetric information, underlying game-theoretic formulations, and intuitive and graphical presentations. Aimed at well-prepared undergraduates and graduate students making a serious foray into this branch of economics, the analysis should also interest professional economists wishing to survey recent advances in the field. No other single source for the range of materials explored is currently available. Topics investigated include Nash equilibrium, Lindahl equilibria, club theory, preference-revelation mechanism, Pigouvian taxes, the commons, Coase Theorem, and static and repeated games. The authors use mathematical techniques only as much as necessary to pursue the economic argument. They develop key principles of public economics that are useful for subfields such as public choice, labor economics, economic growth, international economics, environmental and natural resource economics, and industrial organization

Environmental degradation, crises in care and the predations of finance capital impose new challenges to human reproduction. It is imperative to understand their roots in capitalism. But how best to do so? This book develops the concept of 'immanent externalities' to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by – and necessary for – capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx's Capital . In doing so, the book locates capitalism's fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today

The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: (1) externalities related to mobility and transport; (2) external economies of scale and cluster effects, and (3) spatial environmental externalities. The book offers examples of the above mentioned categories.

Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Reflections of Externalities in the Public Economy -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Concept and Scope of Externality -- 2 External Economies -- 2.1 Consequences of Externality -- 3 Internalization and Compensation of Externalities -- 3.1 Public Internalization Policies -- 3.1.1 Pigou-Type Taxes -- 3.1.2 Plott's Regulatory and Tax Approach -- 3.1.3 Fees -- 4 Market Solutions Against Externalities -- 4.1 Coase Teoremi -- 4.2 Hicks-Kaldor Criterion -- 4.3 Scitovsky Approach: Bargaining Criteria -- 4.4 Comparison of Public Economics and Market Solutions in Internalizing Externalities -- 5 Result -- References -- Impact of Microfinance on Small Enterprises in India -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Data and Estimation -- 4 Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Do Credit Rating Agencies Predict or Deepen Financial Crises? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions and Functions of Credit Rating -- 3 Brief History of Credit Rating Activity and Key Rating Agencies, Rating Systems -- 4 Credit Rating Agencies and Financial Crises -- 4.1 Southeast Asian crisis -- 4.2 Russian Crisis -- 4.3 Brazilian Crisis -- 4.4 Turkish Crisis -- 4.5 Dot.com Crisis -- 4.6 Enron Scandal -- 4.7 Parmalat Scandal -- 4.8 United States Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- 4.9 Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers -- 4.10 Greece Debt Crisis -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Volatility and Foreign Direct Investment in MENA Region: A Spatial Panel Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Description -- 3 Specification of Spatial Weight Matrix and Estimation Method -- 4 Estimation Results -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- An Alternative Lifestyle Practice in a Globalizing World: Voluntary Simplicity and Cittaslow -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sustainable Consumption -- 2.1 Green Consumer.