Increase public-private collaboration, specialization and demand orientation – the priorities for promoting innovation
Monday, 3 June 2013
Increase the level of collaboration between the public and private sectors, carefully focus the research being undertaken, further consolidate the largest research institutions and promote market-led research are some of the priorities that should guide business innovation policy. These were the conclusions reached by participants in a round table discussion on innovation policies at the…
III Workshop on Transport Economics: technological improvements and impact payments – the keys to reducing the environmental effects of transport
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Reducing the environmental problems attributable to transport requires a combination of measures that include impact payments to cover external effects and technological improvements. This is one of the conclusions reached by expert researchers in Transport Economics at the III Workshop on Transport Economics (27 May, Barcelona), organized by the Barcelona Economics Institute and the…
IEB’s IV Fiscal Federalism Report: Experts in Public Economics warn that the response to the crisis has led to substantial recentralization
Friday, 24 May 2013
Professors Núria Bosch, Albert Solé-Ollé, Santiago Lago, Carles Viver, Jorge Martínez-Vázquez and Gustavo Canavire identify a process of recentralization including such measures as local government reform, the setting of a deficit objective and the 2011 reform of the Constitution The experts deny that all processes of decentralization impede attempts at finding a way out of…
The IEB and Fedea to bring together leading researchers to examine the effects of transport on the environment (Workshop 27/05/2013)
Friday, 3 May 2013
Highly prestigious researchers, including Stef Proost (University of Leuven), David Banister (Oxford University) and Xavier Labandeira (University of Vigo) will participate at the III Workshop on Transport Economics on 27 May, organized by the IEB and Fedea-Abertis Chair. The workshop is dedicated to conducting an economic analysis of the effects of transport on the…
Cutting the maximum speed on roads and lowering rail fares only reduces fuel consumption by 2-3% (A.Matas, J.Asensio and A.Gómez-Lobo)
Monday, 15 April 2013
The measures implemented by the Spanish government in 2011 to reduce fuel consumption fell well short of their stated objectives of cutting gasoline use by 15% and diesel use by 11%. Cutting the maximum speed on motorways from 120 to 110 km/h and lowering rail fares by 5% (on local and regional lines) reduced…
The origins of the gap between English and Asian pupils in mathematics can be traced back to primary school (A. Choi and J.Jerrim)
Monday, 15 April 2013
The sizeable gap in the mathematics skills of English pupils and those from East Asia first emerges at primary school or even earlier. Between the ages of 10 and 15, however, the gap remains relatively constant. Moreover, the mathematics skills of the highest achieving 16-year-old English pupils lag two years behind those of the…
