Fernando Rodríguez López- PhD Economics
- Professor at University of Salamanca
Fernando Rodríguez López
- PhD Economics
- Professor at University of Salamanca
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April 1994 - present
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The chapter identifies a triangle of political, legal and economic conditioning factors as the basis for delimiting the governance framework in which to analyze good governance decisions, always related to efficiency in production and equity in distribution. It is pathological to distort or break this triangle to force actions that do not contribut...
Protected areas in Latin America are typically surrounded by ranching landscapes, where large carnivores such as the jaguar (Panthera onca), co‐habit with ranchers, which potentially causes negative interactions. It is crucial, however, recognize that effective coexistence hinges on developing conservation policies that not only address these negat...
Multiple stakeholders in the microfinance sector seek to foster financial, social, and environmental development in a sustainable way by providing a wide range of products and services for financial inclusion. This heterogeneity is also reflected in the multiple methods to evaluate the performance of financial service providers. For this reason, it...
The domestication of vines started in Asia 11,000 years ago, although it was not until the 19th century that oenology was established as a scientific discipline thanks to the research of Louis Pasteur on the role of microorganisms in wine fermentation. At the present time, the progression in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies is helping...
La reforma del Código Penal de 2015, llevada a cabo mediante la Ley Orgánica 1/2015, de 30 de marzo, no sólo contribuyó a delimitar de forma más clara los supuestos de los que se puede derivar responsabilidad penal para la persona jurídica, introducida en el ordenamiento jurídico español en 2010. En realidad, su particularidad más novedosa fue la i...
El sector eólico se ha convertido en una de las principales actividades productivas de Castilla y León. De hecho, es el principal generador de esta energía del país, y el que más potencia instalada tiene. Sin embargo, la producción de energía eólica engloba una cadena de valor dividida en varias fases productivas. Por ello, tras haber analizado con...
En esta comunicación se revisan los programas e intervenciones que se han puesto en marcha en las diferentes Comunidades Autónomas españolas desde 2015, tanto a nivel regional como en la esfera local, con el fin de analizar la forma en la que se han incorporado los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en la planificación y la operativa de las entidad...
Several stakeholders have joined forces in recent years to facilitate consensus building on practices, indicators and standards that might serve to increase accountability and improve micro-finance social performance. As a result, several sets of social standards have been developed to provide social performance assessment with a similar level of c...
Analysis of the debate "pacta sunt servanda" vs. "rebus sic stantibus" from the point of view of Law and Economics
The report analyses the relations between mining activity and economic, social and environmental development in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Based on the study of the Bolivian regulatory framework, the current situation of the sector and the evolution and distribution of mining royalties, it studies the role of mining as a determining factor...
Entre las principales razones por las que el fenómeno de la corrupción resulta tan difícil de combatir suelen mencionarse frecuentemente dos: por un lado, la difi cultad de llevar adelante las investigaciones en un contexto en el que los actores directamente implicados tienen conocimiento y, en muchas ocasiones, control sobre los procedimientos de...
Construction of a compliance index to show how countries implement best international practices on this issue
Climate Change is the most important challenge that humanity faces today. The rapid increase in global temperatures during the last century due to an exponential increase of greenhouse gas concentrations is altering the climate beyond our capacity of adaptation. In order to mobilize the society towards bold, informed, coherent responses, public ins...
Collective book. Contributions deal with different issues related to the fight against corruption, mainly by compliance (ex ante) and sanctions (ex post).
La lucha contra la corrupción sigue siendo uno de los retos pendientes de los Estados modernos los cuales, preocupados por los nocivos efectos que ésta produce en la sociedad y en sus institucio...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are usually driven by a twofold orientation defined by a set of financial and social aims. To date there is no consensus on how these two orientations are connected, nor on what is the best method to evaluate performance. The introduction of social elements to measure the degree of success in recent years led to sev...
We propose a theoretical framework to analyze from a quantitative point of view the devices that may have led to the emergence of ethnic voting in Bolivia. The first part provides a review of political and historical changes in recent years, which resulted in mas and Evo Morales assuming the presidency. The second part presents the theoretical cons...
We propose a theoretical framework to analyze from a quantitative point of view
the devices that may have led to the emergence of ethnic voting in Bolivia. The first part
provides a review of political and historical changes in recent years, which resulted in mas
and Evo Morales assuming the presidency. The second part presents the theoretical cons...
Scientific bases for the elaboration of the Spanish National Strategy of Green Infraestructure
The paper analyzes the historical evolution of the production of liquid bioenergy in the US on the basis of the political economy of fuels for road transport, largely determined by the dynamics of the opportunity cost that arises from the connection between energy and agricultural markets. We have developed an analysis framework to build a set of s...
Las conexiones entre corrupción y desarrollo vienen siendo estudiadas desde hace décadas, aunque sólo recientemente se ha pasado a considerar la debilidad institucional, en general, y la corrupción, en particular, como uno de los principales bloques de factores explicativos del subdesarrollo. El libro que tiene entre manos analiza algunos de los as...
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar algunos aspectos relacionados con la racionalidad de los objetivos del derecho sancionador, especialmente en lo referente a la compatibilidad entre dos de ellos: la eficacia de las sanciones en cuanto a sus efectos desincentivadores de las conductas socialmente no deseadas y la proporcionalidad de las sancio...
Microfinance regulation is a complex and constantly evolving topic, comprising many and very diverse issues which, moreover, are treated differently by legal systems. This paper suggests a novel comprehensive analysis structure that may serve as a benchmark to analyse different regulation frameworks for microfinance, based on the international guid...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the degree of statehood of Bolivia, assessing the problems that preclude the establishment of an objective State, as well as the constituent challenges of the new Plurinational State. The first part includes an historical review regarding the State in Bolivia, from its founding to the present. The second part is...
Los costes de la dependencia del petróleo, los costes externos medioambientales de los combustibles fósiles, o la promoción del desarrollo agrícola, han justificado una serie de medidas de intervención estatal para expandir el mercado interno de los biocarburantes, en el supuesto de que la intervención del Estado es condición necesaria y suficiente...
The evolution and development of microfinance markets is conditioned by external factors such as macroeconomic variables, institutional country level, availability of conflict resolution mechanisms, informal sector features, and applicable regulation. A careful design of the latter aspect is needed because it can either be a tool for promotion (by...
Microfinance in Latin America: Are there standard regulatory frameworks?
Latin-American microfinance markets have been evolving in different ways for the last forty years. Some of them have been established in the most strategic regions of the world in terms of microfinance environment and regulation, while in other countries, the regulation of the...
Introducción: La literatura económica propone diversos mecanismos de pago a proveedores, con el objetivo de conseguir incentivos en la contención del gasto sanitario. Objetivos: Analizar los fundamentos teóricos y efectividad de los instrumentos de pago, pago asociado a diagnóstico (PAD) y pago por prestaciones valoras (PPV), en la contención de co...
The book carries out a meta-analysis of the main studies of the socio-economic effects of microfinance programs and institutions, especially in the Mediterranean countries, and more specifically in North Africa, which was completed with a survey of 40 microfinance institutions in the area, many of them Arabic-speaking and with an Islamic financial...
Análisis de la diferencia entre el altruismo (esfera de la individualidad) y la equidad (esfera social)
This study analyses the relationship between degree of specialisation, defined on the grounds of six different criteria, and the level of technical efficiency in Spanish hospitals. The efficiency rates are calculated by applying DEA techniques to a series of key variables and factors that summarise all the relevant information provided by a wider r...
The use of a system of transferable discharge permitsto control the harmful effects of non-uniformly mixedpollutants requires the application of trading rulesin order to prevent permit trading among sources fromviolating environmental standards. The elements andproperties of bilateral trading rules can be analyzedmore easily once formulated as exch...
Introducción a los modelos de análisis económico de la corrupción, partiendo de un modelo de monopolio en el ejercicio de la autoridad que aprovecha un agente corrupto
The purpose of the paper is to analyze the possibility of introducing a system of transferable discharge permits (TDP) to develop the joint implementation procedure conceived in the Second Sulfur Protocol. The analysis is performed considering not only the European countries that have agreed emission reductions in the Protocol, but also a group of...
1. Introducción El análisis económico del derecho es una disciplina que analiza la racionalidad de las normas jurídicas y sugiere la línea que éstas deberían seguir en su evolución. Con este objetivo se afrontan cometidos de tipo instrumental, como los de predecir los efectos que cabe esperar de la aplicación de una determinada norma, revisar la co...
Este trabajo estudia la relación entre el grado de especialización, definida sobre la base de seis criterios diferentes, y el nivel de eficiencia técnica en el sistema hospitalario español. Los índices de eficiencia son calculados mediante técnicas de envolvente de datos aplicadas a un conjunto de variables y factores principales que condensan la i...
Obra que aborda el problema de contaminación de la lluvia ácida en Europa desde el punto de vista económico. Estudios encaminados a uso de los instrumentos económicos de intervención para controlar el problema de contaminación del aire. En particular se aplica un sistema de permisos transferibles que monitorean las emisiones de compuestos acidifica...
Investigación del sistema hospitalario de Castilla y León mediante técnicas de frontera no paramétricas para evaluar su eficiencia, comparando los hospitales públicos del Insalud Gestión Directa con los hospitales de la región. Research of the hospitable system of Castilla and León by means of skills of border non parametric to evaluate his efficie...
En este trabajo presentamos nuevas cuentas generacionales para 1999. Para su elaboración se utilizan proyecciones demográficas recientes y fuentes estadísticas de naturaleza administrativa. Para la determinación de los perfiles de consumo se ha evitado la utilización de criterios simplificadores, como la mera atribución capitativa o la aplicación d...
