This paper analyzes the determinants of asset securitization in Spanish banks during the period 1999-2007. We distinguish savings banks (Cajas) from the rest of banks, mainly commercial banks, and compare both their decision to securitize and the volume of securitization. Asset securitization...

Spanish financial institutions have been heavily affected by the banking crisis that began in 2008. Many of them, especially Spanish savings banks (or Cajas), had to merge with other institutions or had to be rescued. We address the question of up to what point the nature of competition in this...

In this paper we analyse the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to the solving of crimes. The theoretical and empirical study of the police production function under this dimension leads us to...