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Urban Development and Cultural Policy “White Elephants”: Barcelona and Valencia

2015

AbstractThe importance of culture in defining new models of local development has been increasingly emphasized. However, less attention has been paid to the influence of local development models on local cultural policy. This article will focus on analysing two cities that have used culture as a central element in their economic and urban development. In both cases, they have followed different strategies but the two have finally finished generating two “white elephants”: the Universal Forum of Cultures in the case of Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in the case of Valencia. From a comparison of the two cases, the paper analyses the causes of this urban phenomenon, which combines…

Aproximación a la Geografía del despilfarro en España: balance de las últimas dos décadas

2018

Este trabajo pretende ser una primera aproximación a la dimensión del despilfarro de recursos públicos en infraestructuras en España desde 1995 hasta la actualidad en los distintos niveles de gobierno. A partir de algunas precisiones sobre los conceptos de despilfarro y corrupción, se analiza, de una parte, la inversión y los sobrecostes en infraestructuras innecesarias impulsadas y ejecutadas por la Administración General del Estado en el ámbito de sus competencias, y de otra, infraestructuras, proyectos, eventos e inversiones fallidas, vacías o infrautilizadas acometidas por las Comunidades Autónomas y los gobiernos locales. Se abordan los déficit de marco institucional y de gobernanza te…

L’ASSETTO DEI CONTROLLI DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI IN SICILIA DOPO IL D.L. N. 174 DEL 2012 CONV. DALLA L. N. 223 DEL 2012 ED IL COORDINAMENTO 'DIFFERITO' …

2013

Il controllo della Corte dei conti nell’ordinamento della Regione siciliana, il d.l. n. 174 del 2012 conv. con mod. dalla l. n. 223 del 2012 e le contraddizioni del legislatore. 2. Le funzioni di controllo svolte dalla Corte dei conti sugli atti della Regione siciliana. 3. Cenni sulle nuove forme di controllo introdotte dall’art. 1 del d.l. n. 174 del 2012 conv. con mod. dalla l n. 223 del 2012. 4. Gli effetti 'collaterali' del coordinamento differito della finanza pubblica

2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology a…

2016

ABI : ankle–brachial (blood pressure) index ABPM : ambulatory blood pressure monitoring ACCORD : Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes ACE-I : angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ACS : acute coronary syndromes ADVANCE : Action in Diabetes and Vascular disease: PreterAx

The Tax Returns of Public Spending on Universities: An Estimate with Monte Carlo Simulations

2015

Pastor J. M. and Peraita C. The tax returns of public spending on universities: an estimate with Monte Carlo simulations, Regional Studies. This paper proposes a methodology based on counterfactual scenarios and the existence of uncertainty to estimate the tax returns of public spending of regional governments on their public universities. The introduction of differences in the time spent by the students at university and the proportion of the total public expenditure implies making assumptions about uncertainty. The paper applies Monte Carlo simulations incorporating stochastic elements to estimate the tax returns of public spending in the University of the Basque Country (Spain). The resu…

Place-based policy in southern Italy: evidence from a dose-response approach

2021

This paper evaluates the effectiveness at a territorial level of a place-based policy for southern Italy, that is, territorial integrated projects (TIPs). We combine classical counterfactual designs and the construction of a dose–response function to assess the impact of the infrastructural interventions on the municipalities involved in a target region (Sicily). The results are robust enough to show policy effectiveness on both the number of workers and the number of plants. In the latter case, we also identify a significant and increasing dose–response function highlighting the positive relationship between funding intensity and the growth of plants.

El árbol. Protagonista del paisaje de fin de siglo

2007

A finales del siglo XIX, la necesidad de reflejar en las obras contenidos más sencillos y cercanos al espectador, ocasionó en todos los géneros, en general, y en el paisaje, en particular, una nueva forma de ver y entender la obra de arte. Las salidas frente al natural enfrentaron a los artistas cara a cara con la Naturaleza, aprendiendo a observarla con todo detalle y trasladarla con la mayor fidelidad posible al lienzo. Y dentro de las especies vegetales, fue sin duda, el árbol el que concentró todas las miradas, siendo él el verdadero protagonista del paisaje de fin de siglo. Y así como en el resto de las especies no resulta posible realizar un análisis concreto, en el estrato arbóreo se…

Facing globalization and increased trade: Catalonia's evolution from industrial region to knowledge and creative economy

2011

Catalonia is experiencing a crucial transformation of its productive model. The main changes are exemplified by an intense process of substitution of the traditional aspects (low-technology manufacturing base and orientation towards internal markets) for a model of development characterized by the combined importance of creative industries and high-tech manufacturing activities, and oriented to external markets. The new competitive bases of the regional economy rely on three factors: urbanization and network economies, changes in the productive structure and the generation of innovations linked with export capacity. Resumen. Cataluna esta experimentando una transformacion crucial de su mode…

Essays on financial stability: an analysis based on NUTS2 and NUTS3 data for Italy

The impact of criminality on the riskiness of cooperative credit banks in Italy: a macro regional approach

2017

In Italy, Cooperative Credit Banks (CCBs), unlike large banks, despite the economic downturn, have continued to extend credit to customers, but at the cost of a higher incidence of bad credit. This increased credit risk of local banks has been caused by management policy choices, such as preferring to modify the conditions applicable to credit supply and to engage firms in long-term credit relationships rather than initiating credit recovery procedures. The originality of this empirical analysis lies in its demonstration of the effects of environmental factors related to the spread of crime and lower economic well-being, higher unemployment and poverty in families on the credit market in So…