Facultad de Económicas y CC Empresariales

CEU San Pablo University, and more specifically its Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, decided to launch a subject that involves the compendium and coordination of two clearly differentiated subjects: Economic History and Economic Structure. This has meant, not only the definition of a single program that integrates all the knowledge of both subjects, but also that two lecturers teach the same subject in the same group. Thus, in Structure and Economic History there is a complete and total coordination of the subjects under study, which allows students to link the knowledge, acquired in both of them. Furthermore, this allows them to develop critical thinking, and to face the analysis of the main economic problems from different perspectives.

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

Enmarcado dentro del compromiso de la universidad española de formar no sólo en conocimientos sino también en competencias, este trabajo presenta una nueva forma de enfocar la elaboración de los trabajos de fin de grado. En esta propuesta prima la adquisición de competencias transversales por parte del estudiante, combinando el trabajo autónomo con el cooperativo gracias a la colaboración entre varias universidades europeas. A lo largo de su último curso de grado, los estudiantes, guiados por varios profesores, deben investigar sobre varias cuestiones relacionadas con el mundo de la banca, de las finanzas y de la ética, para prepararse de cara al encuentro. Esta preparación previa les permite abordar durante la semana en que tiene lugar el programa intensivo y junto con el resto de compañeros europeos, la elaboración de un trabajo académico desde una perspectiva internacional. Esta investigación, además, les puede servir de base para la posterior elaboración y defensa de su trabajo de fin de grado en su universidad de origen.

In 1962, the Ley de Bases para la Ordenación del Crédito y de la Banca (LBOCB) was passed, which sought, at least theoretically, to introduce greater competition in the Spanish banking sector. After more than a century, the banking sector was forced to specialize and to choose between the provision of commercial services (the raising of short-term deposits and loans and discounting of bills) or the financing of industrial activities (typical of industrial banking). The sector, characterized by the presence of a multitude of small and medium-sized banks, presented oligopolistic features as more than 80% of the resources were in the hands of the large national banks. The aim of this paper is to characterize the activity of Spanish banks in 1955 and 1965. By means of a multicriteria analysis, a classification of the banks according to different parameters is proposed, with the aim of contrasting whether the banking strategy was similar or not. This work is framed in the tradition of the New Economic History or Cliometrics developed in the 70's of the 20th century, characterized by the interconnection of mathematics, economics, and statistics in the historical analysis.