The Private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education: a general framework and some results for the EU

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these countries, we construct estimates of the private return to an additional year of schooling for an individual of average attainment, taking into account the effects of education on wages and employment probabilities after allowing for academic failure rates, the direct and opportunity costs of schooling, and the impact of personal taxes, social security contributions and unemployment and pension benefits on net incomes. We also construct a set of effective tax and subsidy rates that measure the effects of different public policies on the private returns to education, and measures of the fiscal returns to schooling that capture the long-term effects of a marginal increase in attainment on public finances under conditions that approximate general equilibrium.

Political alliances and organisational change in political parties: a framework for analysis

This article sets out a theoretical framework for the study of organisational change within political alliances. To achieve this objective it uses as a starting point a series of premises, the most notable of which include the definition of organisational change as a discrete, complex and focussed phenomenon of changes in power within the party. In accordance with these premises, it analyses the synthetic model of organisational change proposed by Panebianco (1988). After examining its limitations, a number of amendments are proposed to adapt it to the way political alliances operate. The above has resulted in the design of four new models. In order to test its validity and explanatory power in a preliminary manner, the second part looks at the organisational change of the UDC within the CiU alliance between 1978 and 2001. The discussion and conclusions reached demonstrate the problems of determinism of the Panebianco model and suggest, tentatively, the importance of the power balance within the alliance as a key factor.

J2EE tienda virtual application framework

En el siguiente documento podrá encontrar de una forma clara y entendedora, a través de la creación de un sencillo aplicativo, el mecanismo para la creación de una aplicación J2EE basada en el framework de desarrollo Yakarta Struts. En el mismo partirá desde cero, desde el inicio en la captación de requerimientos, pasando por la etapa de análisis y diseño y la posterior implementación.

Open source framework for trucks fleet control (client)

Aquest projecte desenvolupa la part client d'una aplicació per controlar una flota de camions. Està implementada per funcionar sobre un dispositiu mòbil que funcioni amb el sistema operatiu Android.

Testing, not modelling, the impact of cohesion support: a theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions

This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies. Some preliminary results are reported for the case of infrastructure investment in the Spanish regions.

Party competition in regional elections: a framework for analysis

Whilst scholars have long recognised that processes of decentralisation create new regional arenas where distinct patterns of party competition are likely to emerge, there has been little systematic analysis of the dynamics of such competition. This working paper thus proposes a framework for analysing party competition between regional branches of state-wide parties, and autonomist parties, in regional arenas. Firstly, the different strategies political parties may adopt in response to their perceptions of voter preferences and to the strategies pursued by their competitors are identified. Secondly, different factors that impact on parties' strategic choices, and which may constrain a party's ability to select electorally optimal strategies in a given political context, are proposed.

Creació d'un framework per aplicacions web amb la plataforma .NET

Hi ha moltes empreses que fan aplicacions de gestió Web. Una d’aquestes empreses és per la que s’ha fet el projecte. El problema és que tenen molts projectes per desenvolupar, per tant van decidir d’implementar un conjunt d’eines amb l’objectiu de facilitar la implementació de les aplicacions als programadors. S’ha desenvolupat una llibreria .dll, que conté aquestes noves eines. També s’ha utilitzat codi JavaScript i CSS per tal d’implementar alguna funcionalitat i donar una presentació amb aquestes noves eines.

Linear Aggregation In The Social Accounting Matrix Framework

In economic literature, information deficiencies and computational complexities have traditionally been solved through the aggregation of agents and institutions. In inputoutput modelling, researchers have been interested in the aggregation problem since the beginning of 1950s. Extending the conventional input-output aggregation approach to the social accounting matrix (SAM) models may help to identify the effects caused by the information problems and data deficiencies that usually appear in the SAM framework. This paper develops the theory of aggregation and applies it to the social accounting matrix model of multipliers. First, we define the concept of linear aggregation in a SAM database context. Second, we define the aggregated partitioned matrices of multipliers which are characteristic of the SAM approach. Third, we extend the analysis to other related concepts, such as aggregation bias and consistency in aggregation. Finally, we provide an illustrative example that shows the effects of aggregating a social accounting matrix model.

Catalonia’s participation in calls of the EU 7th Framework Programme for RTD. Period 2007-2009

English translation of the Executive summary of the report “Catalonia’s participation in calls of the EU 7th Framework Programme for RTD. Period 2007-2009” drawn up by researchers of the AQR Research Group – Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) of the University of Barcelona. It aims to find out the reality of the Catalonia’s participation in the EU 7th Framework Programme, the main European financial instrument for research during the period 2007-2009.

Una botiga virtual de música: eMonMusical

Treball de Fi de Carrera a l'àrea de J2EE que consisteix en la creació d'una botiga virtual amb el framework Spring MVC i Spring Web Flow.

Virtual Camarero : desarrollo de aplicaciones departamentales con .NET Framework 4.0

El Virtual Camarero es un proyecto de final de carrera realizado con .NET. Consiste en una aplicación para terminal táctil para poder realizar pedidos en un bar o restaurante desde la mesa de un local. Sin la necesidad de que el camarero venga a pedir lo que se quiere tomar.

Desarrollo de aplicaciones departamentales con .NET Framework 4.0

Proyecto de fin de carrera haciendo uso de WPF para el desarrollo de una aplicación departamental.

ServEngine : Framework pel desenvolupament de serveis en línia

En aquest projecte es desenvoluparà ServEngine, un framework per al desenvolupament de serveis de portals, comunitats virtuals i sistemes de comerç electrònic basat en el patró MVC i, com s'elegirà més endavant després d'un procés d'anàlisi i comparació, utilitzant Struts com a base de desenvolupament.

Disseny i implementació d'un marc de treball de presentació amb XML per a aplicacions J2EE a partir del Framework Struts

L'objectiu principal d'aquest projecte és la separació total dels rols de programador i de dissenyador de vistes en el disseny d'aplicacions distribuïdes fetes mitjançant tecnologia J2EE, i també el suport d'una sola aplicació a diferents tipus de client i idiomes alhora, sense la necessitat de codi extra o específic per a aconseguir-ho.

Desarrollo de aplicaciones con J2EEProyecto onLineStore

Estudi detallat del framework JavaServer Faces (d'ara endavant, JSF's) per al desenvolupament de aplicacions web, i mostra com integrar amb altres marcs de treball, específicament, Spring i JPA. Per a això, crearem l'aplicació Web onLineStore, un sistema de catàleg de productes en línia.