About the AVE and the evaluation of projects
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/19/15. After spending more than 45,000 million euros on the AVE in addition to 12,000 million more euros programmed for the coming years, controversy has reached the AVE with the publication of a FEDEA study by Llobet and Betancor, and, especially, […]
Another missed opportunity
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/05/15. "Experience has shown that when there are no second chance mechanisms, there are clear disincentives to undertake new activities and even to remain in the regular circuit of the economy. This obviously does not favor the debtor himself, but neither does it favor the creditors [...]
What are surveys for?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 03/15/15. Citizens are being subjected to a bombardment of electoral polls with disparate results regarding the elections to be held in 2015, so they end up concluding that the polls are useless, which is the same as what politicians think...when […]
Venezuela or Denmark?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 03/1/15.Venezuela or Denmark. Luis Garicano assures in his book that this is “Spain's dilemma.” In his opinion, either Spain becomes Venezuela, a country with an outdated productive structure, interventionist laws, an ineffective State and a few companies that thrive […]
Doors to the countryside
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 01/04/15. “Better, faster and cheaper than a taxi.” This is how Uber describes itself, a company dedicated to the transportation of individuals in cities that provides its services through a mobile application and that has just temporarily closed its services […]
Time to buy a home?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/28/14. One of the recurring questions I am often asked is when will be the time to invest again in purchasing homes. Even after the crisis, Spain is a country of owners. 70% of Spaniards own an apartment, […]
The bubbles start to burst
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/21/14. I commented a little over a year ago that, when we had not yet emerged from the crisis caused by the last financial bubble, the bursting of others was already on the horizon. The reaction of the authorities to the outbreak of the […]
tail wind
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/14/14. The economic situation has a habit of chaining together negative news in contexts of crisis and positive news in times of recovery, and it seems that this situation is reproduced again. If at the beginning of the crisis one bad news was followed by another […]
A Nobel Prize for the intelligent regulation of markets
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 10/26/14. The Frenchman Jean Tirole has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics thanks to his work related to industrial organization, the market power of companies and regulation. Tirole is the eighth most economics researcher […]
Sell in 2014, save in 2015
Article by Federico González Aledo, published in Diario de Avisos on 09/21/14. The Spanish market is awakening, after a long and tortuous passage through the economic crisis, to investment. The Ibex has recovered 2010 levels, sovereign debt is trading at historic lows and housing is once again presented as an investment opportunity […]
