Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Conflicts in Classification

4 p.

Divergences in the Long Run Trends in the Price of Energy and of Energy Services

32 p.

Víctimas de violencia contra la pareja. Desmontando y matizando los mitos más relevantes

[ES]El presente trabajo trata sobre los mitos existentes en materia de violencia en la pareja. Se ha llevado a cabo la identificación, análisis y contrastación de los mismos para poder establecer el nivel de realidad que reflejan. De este modo se pretende evitar la estigmatización a las víctimas con falsos estereotipos por parte tanto de la sociedad, como de las instituciones públicas, que dificultan la superación del trauma. Para ello se ha realizado una revisión bibliográfica en profundidad sobre diversas disciplinas relacionadas con la problemática, así como un estudio exploratorio, no representativo, en el que seis víctimas de delitos de violencia dentro de la pareja han contestado un cuestionario. Por medio de estos cuestionarios se ha tratado de poner voz a las víctimas en el análisis de su propio conflicto. Posteriormente se han propuesto diversas medidas a tener en cuenta a la hora de redactar políticas victimales sobre violencia dentro de la pareja, enfocadas sobre todo a la prevención.

Atención integral a víctimas de delitos. Las oficinas de asistencia a víctimas de delitos (OAVD)

[ES]Este proyecto trata de revisar las diferentes Oficinas de Asistencia a las Víctimas de Delitos (OAVD) de algunas Comunidades Autónomas, desde la situación en la que se encuentran las personas víctimas de delitos que acuden a estos centros, hasta la manera de proceder de los mismos en relación a su labor (asistencia, orientación, protección, ayuda, etc. a éstas); así como de delimitar las funciones que realizan con el fin de subrayar la necesidad de un modelo de atención integral a víctimas de delitos, entendido en un sentido amplio, complejo y diverso

Are Bar Associations Anticompetitive? An Empirical Analysis of Recommended Prices for Legal Services in Spain

The European Commission Report on Competition in Professional Services found that recommended prices by professional bodies have a significant negative effect on competition since they may facilitate the coordination of prices between service providers and/or mislead consumers about reasonable price levels. Professional associations argue, first, that a fee schedule may help their members to properly calculate the cost of services avoiding excessive charges and reducing consumers’ searching costs and, second, that recommended prices are very useful for cost appraisal if a litigant is condemned to pay the legal expenses of the opposing party. Thus, recommended fee schedules could be justified to some extent if they represented the cost of providing the services. We test this hypothesis using cross‐section data on a subset of recommended prices by 52 Spanish bar associations and cost data on their territorial jurisdictions. Our empirical results indicate that prices recommended by bar associations are unrelated to the cost of legal services and therefore we conclude that recommended prices have merely an anticompetitive effect.

Long Run Trends in the Price of Energy and Energy Services

4 p.

Competing Ecosystem services: an Assessment of Carbon and timber in the Tropical forests of Central America

4 p.

Classifying Ecosystem Services for Economic Valuation: The case of forest water services

30 p.

Competing Ecosystem Services: an Assessment of Carbon and Timber in the Tropical Forests of Central America

29 p.

Can the change in the composition of the US GDP explain the Great Moderation? A test via oil price shocks

The paper investigates whether the growing GDP share of the services sector can contribute to explain the great moderation in the US. We identify and analyze three oil price shocks and use a SVAR analysis to measure their economic impact on the US economy at both the aggregate and the sectoral level. We find mixed support for the explanation of the great moderation in terms of shrinking oil shock volatilities and observe that increases (decreases) in oil shock volatilities are contrasted by a weakening (strengthening) in their transmission mechanism. Across sectors, services are the least affected by any oil shock. As the contribution of services to the GDP volatility increases over time, we conclude that a composition effect contributed to moderate the conditional volatility to oil shocks of the US GDP.

The adoption of ecosystem-based adaptation in the international climate agenda

4 p.

The Long Run Demand for Lighting: Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development

25 p.

Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Latin America: Evidence from Reported Experience

27 p.

Solutions for New Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems Offering Simultaneously Stationary and Mobile Services

221 p.

Analysis of channel quality reporting mechanisms and their impact into 4G and beyond technologies

206 p.