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DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY IN SPANISH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. COMPARING AIDED AND NON-AIDED ENTITIES
2015
The last financial crisis has led to the greatest contribution of public funds ever made to Spanish banks. This paper studies why the need for support has been asymmetric, with not all of the institutions requiring aid. Based on profitability of assets (ROA), we determine using panel data econometric and logit response models the components of profit and loss accounts that generated profitability as well as the factors leading to some entities to ask for aid. The analyses show that before the beginning of the crisis there were significant differences between entities that needed aid and those that did not. The most profitable banks grounded their success in the traditional revenue component…
Financial crises in Spain: lessons from the last 150 years
2012
Financial crises are not unique to current financial systems. Are crises alike? Have they become more frequent, longer lasting and more severe since the 20th century? What does history tell us? The objective of this paper is to study the financial crises that have occurred in Spain over the last 150 years. We consider different types of crises (banking, currency and stock market crises), together with all their possible combinations, estimate their frequency by period and measure their length and depth. The main conclusion we obtain is that Spanish crises have been more frequent than in the rest of the world and have been more severe and more complex since 1973, as the 2007 crisis is confir…
Why did Spanish Regions not Converge before the Civil War? Agglomeration Economies and (Regional) Growth Revisited
2015
In this paper we explore the relationship between the presence of agglomeration economies and regional economic growth in Spain during the period 1870-1930. The study allows us to revisit the existence of a trade-off between economic growth and territorial cohesion, and also to examine whether the existence of agglomeration economies could explain the upswing in regional income inequality during the early stages of development. In doing so, we present alternative indicators for agglomeration economies and estimate conditional growth regressions at province (NUTS3) level. In line with new economic geography models, agglomeration economies in a context of market integration widened regional i…
EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
2017
Phenomena such as civil war, protracted conflict, and deteriorating internal security, especially in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Asia, have triggered massive departures of civilian populations in recent years. The war in Syria alone has displaced over 5 million people (UNHCR, 2017a). While most of these forced migrants are either internally displaced or remain in Syria’s immediate neighbourhood, the numbers of those trying to come to Europe have steeply increased in 2015 and 2016. In each of these two years more than 1.2 million asylum-seekers submitted their asylum claims in the EU (Eurostat, 2017a), as compared to 625,000 in 2014 (Eurostat, 2015, p. 4). This represents the larges…
The criminal prosecution of illegal fishing and the jurisdiction of Spanish courts
2022
This paper examines the possibilities of criminally prosecuting illegal fishing in maritime zones based on crimes established in Spanish legislation. In order to carry out this analysis, a distinction has been made between prosecution based on the place in which acts of illegal fishing are committed (ratione loci), who is responsible for this illicit activity (ratione personae), and the criminal relevance of the incriminating conduct (ratione materiae). This reveals the scope of the criminal prosecution which Spanish courts can carry out and whether this is sufficient to guarantee marine biodiversity to the benefit of the international community.
Spanish geographers works and the evolution of the geographical
2005
En este artículo se analiza la evolución y características de los trabajos de los geógrafos españoles difundidos desde 1975 hasta hoy en tres medios de comunicación interdisciplinares especializados en temas regionales, relacionando estos cambios con la evolución de la investigación geográfica en España. Los resultados muestran que desde principios de los años 80 ha ido aumentando el interés por los temas aplicados (políticas de desarrollo regional, planeamiento y políticas urbanas, planificación y ordenación del territorio) e incrementándose el uso de las técnicas cuantitativas. sin embargo, desde mediados de los años 90 hasta hoy la participación de los geógrafos, que fue muy importante e…
Flamenco flamingos and pelicans. From purist flamenco to quinqui fusion. Duende y misterio del flamenco (Edgar Neville, 1952) y Dame veneno (Pedro Ba…
2012
El cine musical español se ha servido en numerosas ocasiones de los elementos característicos de la españolada, como es el caso del flamenco. Sin embargo, muy pocas películas se han detenido a analizarlo en profundidad. Contraviniendo esa tendencia, ‘Duende y misterio del flamenco’ (Edgar Neville) y ‘Dame veneno’ (Pedro Barbadillo) se nos muestran como dos rarezas capaces de reflexionar en profundidad sobre ese género musical y su evolución a partir de los años setenta. Evocadores de dos momentos bien diferenciados de la sociedad española, la comparación entre ambos filmes evidencia la evolución de la pureza del género a su fusión con otras músicas, reflejando de paso la apertura a la cultu…
Tra Roma e Venezia. L’attività diplomatica di Carmine Nicola Caracciolo negli anni della Guerra di Successione Spagnola
2018
In recent decades, the studies on diplomacy in the modern age enjoyed renewed interest. While entering into a consolidated historiographical tradition, the most recent research focused on highlighting not only the importance of diplomatic "practices", but also of the actors, in a twofold dimension, both public and private. The change in the point of observation, from the institutions to those acting within institutions, allowed to deepen the specifics of the experiences, to read the activities of individuals in relation not only to international political dynamics, but also to the management of power in most circumscribed local contexts. The present essay intends to insert itself into this …
Key Electoral Institutions and Rules Influencing Proportionality and Partisan Bias in Spanish Politics
2021
The current paper focuses on the Spanish electoral rules governing political competition for the central “Congreso de los Diputados”. It is well-documented that the system as a whole has traditionally favoured one or the other of the two main political parties (PP and PSOE) at the expense of proportionality and the remaining political parties. This paper focuses on some key Spanish electoral rules and investigates how much the observed biases could be altered by introducing some alternative rules taken from the Swedish electoral system, ceteris paribus. Measures of disproportionality are made through the Loosemore–Hanby index and the Gallagher index. The electoral raw data used for our esti…
La transición española : ¿qué sabe el alumnado de 1º de bachillerato?
2020
El presente artículo es el resultado del análisis de una encuesta realizada a 79 estudiantes de 1º de Bachillerato sobre la transición española. Mediante esta investigación se quiere acreditar, con metodología cuantitativa, los conocimientos e ideas que el alumnado encuestado tiene acerca de ese periodo histórico tras la realización de la Educación Secundaria. Para ello se ha realizado una encuesta con variedad de preguntas entre las cuales se han incluido algunas relacionadas entre sí para comprobar posibles contradicciones en las respuestas. La encuesta abarca diferentes cuestiones: desde personajes históricos hasta actores más globales como diferentes organizaciones o movilizaciones soci…