Facultad de Económicas y CC Empresariales

This article has two main goals. On the one hand, it will determine the current level of competition in the secondary education markets of the Madrid region through a series of indicators at municipal and district level (for the case of the city of Madrid). After that, it studies the effect of competition on academic performance, a variable that is seen as a key goal of the entire educational system, considering that the choice of the center will be determined by its ownership and location factors. Given that data is grouped into two levels (students and schools), a multilevel regression analysis will be performed. It is observed that, on average, competition has a positive effect on academic performance, although it penalizes immigrant students. These students tend to be enrolled in public schools, which have a below-average performance, and the probability that students´ parents have been to university is much lower than the figure for the whole of the student body. Bearing in mind the aspects that affect efficiency and equality, it would be advisable to promote educational policies which, while adding educational markets and seeking to increase the range of options available to applicants, offer advice to families of lower socio-economic levels and immigrant students, as well as incentives so that schools have a minimum percentage of students from families with lower socio-economic status.

The purpose of this article is to see, through the experience of a group of Academic Tutors of curricular practices, if these serve to prepare the students in the acquisition and development of the competences and abilities that are needed in the present labour market and that serve them for the future. Secondly, we want to analyse what companies think about the training of our students when they work with them during the internship period. We want to test all this through the contents of the Final Reports that both our students and the Company Tutors have to send at the end of the internship period. This information is received through a tool, developed by the University, where students can carry out all the procedures related to the internship and can be in contact too with their Academic Tutor

En 1962 se aprobaba la Ley de Bases para la Ordenación del Crédito y de la Banca. La finalidad de la nueva ley era acabar con el statu quo bancario, liberalizando el sector y forzando su especialización. Desde un punto de vista de la historia bancaria este período se ha investigado muy profusamente. Sin embargo, estos estudios se han centrado fundamentalmente en el comportamiento del mercado nacional, sin tener en cuenta que el mer cado relevante en el que compiten los bancos privados es el regional y/o el local. La casi inexistencia de datos desagregados por provincias de los balances de la banca privada española para ese período explicaría este hecho. La presente investigación analiza la evolución de la concentración bancaria entre 1963 y 1975 en todas las provincias españolas, con el objetivo de determinar en qué medida el cambio institucional del año 1962 modificó la estructura de estos mercados.