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Joaquim Vergés

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Full professor in Business Economics

Campus Bellaterra, Edifici B, Depart. Econ. Empres

Cerdanyola, Barcelona 08193

Spain

http://webs.uab.cat/jverges/en/

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“  The (mainstream) Economics, its postulate on markets spontaneously tending towards competitveness, and the disagreement of this postulate regarding empirical evidences  ”

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1.

Deconstructing the Macroeconomics' IS-LM Model: Its Assumptions and Simplifications

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2024
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Downloads 382 (194,740)

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Explanatory Models in Economics, Post-Keynesian Economics, IS-LM model, Macroeconomics Teaching

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Las Privatizaciones En España (Privatisations in Spain)

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Dec 2014
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Privatisation, Public enterprises, Privatisations in Spain, Consequences of privatisation

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The Effect of Privatisation on the Economic Performance of Firms

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Feb 2012
Joaquim Vergés and Maria Teresa Bosch
Autonomous University of Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Eficiencia de las Empresas Públicas, Eficiencia comparativa empresas públicas vs. privadas, Medida de la eficiencia de empresas, Efficiency of public owned enterprises, Comparative efficiency of Public-owned vs. private-owned companies, Measuring companies’ productive efficiency

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Social-Optimal Pricing in Mainstream Economics: Marginal Cost Pricing (MCP) and Second Best Pricing (SB). A Critical Review

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Firms' Unit Costs regarding scale of production, Marginalism, Market design, Prices Regulaton, Normative economics

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The Impact of Management Reforms on the Performance of Publicly Owned Enterprises

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Jan 2011
Magda Cayón and Joaquim Vergés
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona
Downloads 117 (608,822)
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Organisational Privatisation, Public Owned Entrprises, Efficiency Measurement, Public Sector Management

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Privatización y Eficiencia Productiva: Análisis del caso Ensidesa/CSI/Aceralia (Privatisation and Productive Efficiency: A Case Study: Aceralia)

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2012
Joaquim Vergés and Maria Teresa Bosch
Autonomous University of Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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privatization, efficiency analysis, productivity analysis, siderurgy

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The Cobb-Douglas production function's underlying core role in the mainstream economics paradigm

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2024
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Cobb-Douglas function, Production function, returns to scale, marginal physical productivity of Labour, marginalism, hypotheses contrasting, economic growth models.

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Unrealism in Mainstream Economics: the ubiquitous assumption of decreasing returns to scale, as paradigmatic

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2024
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Mainstream Economics and empirical testing, Assumptions and axioms in Economics, Socio-political implications of Economics, The traditional assumption of ‘decreasing returns to scale’

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Empirical Rejection of Mainstream Economics' Core Postulates -On Prices, Firms' Profits, and Markets Structure

Real-World Economics Review, issue no. 93, Sep 2020, pp. 61-75: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue93/Verg%C3%A9s-Jaime93.pdf
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Economics, hypothesis testing, business pricing, companies profits, markets structure

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Economics as a Science - Or Viewed From the Perspective of Scientists in Other Fields

Cadmus Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2 - May-July 2020, pp. 247-257; available at: http://cadmusjournal.org
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Notes sobre metodologia translog, i calculs en diferències finites (Notes on Translog Methodology and Finite Differences Calculations)

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Economic and Business research: methodology, Time series, Translogaritmic functions, Natural rate of variation, Finite differences, Discret variables

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Labour Productivity Indicators at the Country and Industry Level: Induced Misinterpretation, With Political Consequences

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Mar 2026
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Productivity, Labour Productivity, Workers Efficiency, Productivity Indexes, Country's Productivity

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Multi-Factor Productivity indicators at the Country Level: Not the Meaning it is Assumed They Have

Number of pages: 1 Posted: 16 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2026
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Country productivity, Productivity indicators, Multi-factor productivity, KLEMS models, Economic growth measures, Labour & Capital contribution

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The Electricity Market’s Design: An Unnecessarily Distorting and costly Mechanism to Overcome

Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Issues
Posted: 20 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2025
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Electricity market’s operation and design, Electricity market’s pricing design, Marginal Cost Pricing, ‘Windfall’ profits, Peak-load pricing, States’ energy policies.

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Fiscal austerity vs. expansionary fiscal policy: on the results of these opposed economic policies applied to fight recessions

Taylor & Francis Online, published 21 July 2023 https://doi.org/101080/17487820.2023.2238109
Posted: 10 Oct 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Economic policies' results; global recession; fiscal stimulous policies; fiscal austerity policies; public deficit management; public debt management vase studies; econometric studies

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Apparent Micro-Empiricism in Mainstream Orthodox Economics

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2023, VOL. 46, NO. 1, 87-112 ; https://doi.org/10.1080/01603477.2022.2099423
Posted: 03 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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deductivism, empiricism, empirical evidence, hypotheses testing, mainstream orthodox economics, realism

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International Liberalization: Its Implications for Countries' Social Wellbeing

Challenge, Volume 65, 2022 - Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1080/05775132.2022.2038885
Posted: 12 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Economics, Socio-economics, Internationalisation, Trade, Liberalisation, Globalisation

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The Misinterpretation of Productivity Measures at Country and Sector Level

Challenge journal, 2021, Vol. 64, issue 2; pp. 156-171. (previously published online 2021, January, 11th.)
Posted: 03 May 2021 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Joaquim Vergés
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Productivity, Labor Productivity, Countries' Productivity, Sectors' Productivity, L&K Productivity, KLEMS models