The “Standard” Administrative Procedure for Supervising and Enforcing EC Law: EC Treaty Articles 226 and 228

Ibanez examines the European Commission\u27s policy and strategy in enforcement proceedings and attempts to discover the predominant European model, if such a model exists, for enforcing and supervising EC law. Ibanez focuses on some general difficulties in analyzing supervision and enforcement at the European level and the problem of implementation in more general terms

The Parallelometer: a mechanical device to study curvature

A simple mechanical device is introduced, the parallelometer, that can be used to measure curvatures of surfaces. The device can be used as a practical illustration of parallel transport of a vector and to study Berry phase shift when it is carried along a loop on the surface. Its connection to the Foucault pendulum is discussed. The experimental results can be successfully compared with the theoretical expectations. The experiment is inexpensive and conceptually easy to perform and understand for a beginner

Emotionale Framing-Effekte auf Einstellungen. Eine theoretische Modellierung und empirische Überprüfung der Wirkungsmechanismen [Emotional framing effects on attitudes. A theoretical modelling and empirical verification of the mechanisms of operation], by Rinaldo Kühne

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Reparaciones de guerra. Las consecuencias económicas de la Paz, J.M.Keynes

El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar un análisis de las condiciones y repercusiones socioeconómicas que implicó el Tratado de Versalles posterior a la 1ª Guerra Mundial, a través de la perspectiva John Maynard Keynes expuesta en su obra, “Las consecuencias económicas de la Paz”. En este estudio se examinan los factores de inestabilidad socioeconómicos en Europa previos al conflicto bélico, las condiciones y clausulas económicas del Tratado, las reparaciones impuestas a los vencidos en el conflicto, y por último la situación resultante descrita por el economista británico.The objective of this text is to analyze the socioeconomic conditions and repercussions implied by the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War, from the perspective of John Maynard Keynes, detailed in his work “The economic consequences of the Peace”. In this work, is studied the socioeconomic instability factors in Europe before the war, the economic clauses of the Treaty, the reparations imposed on the losers in the conflict and the situation of Europe after the Treaty described by the british economist.Departamento de Fundamentos del análisis económico e historia e institucionesGrado en Economí

Rendimientos de la educación en Madrid: un análisis comparado

En el presente trabajo se efectúa un análisis de los rendimientos del nivel educativo en la Comunidad de Madrid. Para ello, se revisa la literatura correspondiente a la teoría del capital humano y otros análisi realizados durante estos años por parte de otros autores. Se utiliza la ecuación minceriana para explicar la variable salario en función de un conjunto de variables explicativas, teniendo especial fijación en la variable educación y sus coeficientes estimados. A través de calcular las primas salariales, se realiza una comparación de los rendimientos de la educación en Madrid, tanto en 2002, 2006 y 2010, y comparando los resultados con el resto de unidades territoriales que compone España.Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresa

The determinants of changes in the organization of production: Evidence from Spanish plant-level data

In this paper we empirically examine the determinants of changes in the organization of production using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey of 1003 plants covering the full range of manufacturing industries in Spain. In particular, and among many other things, survey respondents were asked how service outsourcing practices had changed in the last three years. The answer to this question is indicative of the changes in the importance of backward integration for each of the plants studied. Using other information provided in the survey, we relate the reported changes in outsourcing to changes in other relevant dimensions as possible determinants of the boundaries of the firm. These dimensions are: plant size, downstream market power, cost of inputs, price and quality of the final good and technological progress. Our findings show that outsourcing increases are strongly positively correlated with increases in market share and in market competition. We also find that outsourcing increases when plants face simultaneous increases in product quality and product prices and that it decreases when plants face simultaneous increases in market share and market competition. Finally, we find that multi-plant and one-plant firms adjust their outsourcing practices differently to outside changes. Since neither TCE nor PRT theories of vertical integration fully explain the patterns found in our data, we close this paper by following Adam Smith's claim that the extent of the market seems to be the only factor consistently limiting the degree of specialization in our setting.outsourcing; vertical integration; competition; manufacturing plants;