In a panel study of firm-level data from Spanish manufacturers, we show that reducing anti-competitive regulation in the provision of upstream services has a positive and sizeable effect on the volume of exports of downstream firms. Our estimates indicate that deregulation is very beneficial for...

In this document, the main characteristics of the mortgage markets regulation in developed countries will be analyzed, trying to extract implications in terms of the resilience of the different systems during this crisis. The note is organized in four sections, covering the most relevant issues...

From the perspective of the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis expounded the importance of a developed government bond market to cushion the financial crisis, And comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, the euro zone and offshore...

This paper analyzes whether dynamic provisioning systems act as a dampener -as intended- or as a buffer. After briefly reviewing the literature, we explain the rationale for dynamic provisions and analyze the experience of three of the few countries that adopted them: Spain, Colombia and Peru....

En este trabajo se elaboran series homogeneas de distintos agregados de empleo y de VAB a precios corrientes y constantes para el conjunto de Espana durante el periodo 1955-2010. Las series se construyen mediante el enlace de diversas bases de la CNE y de la Contabilidad Trimestral,...

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We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...

Este trabajo quiere contribuir a ampliar y extender entre la opinion publica un amplio debate social sobre la necesidad de reformar los sistemas de pensiones, haciendolos sostenibles.

En el presente trabajo se recopilan y extienden diversas series historicas de los principales agregados nacionales de la Encuesta de Poblacion Activa (EPA) y se construyen nuevas series anuales homogeneas de las mismas variables para el periodo 1964-2009, corrigiendo algunas de las rupturas que...

En esta nota se analiza la financiacion definitiva de las comunidades autonomas de regimen comun en el ano 2011 a la luz de la liquidacion del sistema correspondiente a dicho ejercicio, que ha sido hecha publica recientemente