Emili Tortosa-Ausina

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the efficiency of local governments in the Comunitat Valenciana (Spain) and their main explanatory variables, focusing on both political and fiscal policy variables.

TL;DR: productivity growth and productive efficiency for Spanish savings banks over the (initial) post-deregulation period 1992?1998 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping techniques show that productivity growth has occurred, mainly due to improvement in production possibilities, and that mean efficiency has remained fairly constant over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed how social capital has influenced per capita income convergence for 216 European Union (EU) regions, a relevant context not only in light of the cohesion policies but also due to the remarkable disparate social capital endowments at the regional level.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative performance of both socially responsible investment (SRI) and Islamic mutual funds is analyzed using quantile regression techniques, and the results show that for the most inefficient funds the superior performance of SRI funds is significant.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000, and found that some municipalities could manage their resources more efficiently if they were granted more power.