Panama, Panama

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/17/16. The appearance of the so-called “Panama Papers” is a massive leak of 11.5 million documents that has exposed the relationship of important world figures with the Panamanian law firm Fonseca, the fifth in the country. Spain, it would be missing more, has […]

PHILIP MORRIS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

PMI Entrepreneurship Program 2016 ● Philip Morris International (PMI) and MBA Business School announce Scholarships for entrepreneurs in the Canary Islands. ● Three seed capital prizes will be awarded, of almost 10,000 euros each. ● All participants will be able to participate in an MBA mentoring and management development training.

The effectiveness of the ECB's measures

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the March 2016 issue. On March 10, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that he was lowering the interest rate at which he lends to banks to 0% and that he would continue injecting money into the economy at […]

The labor aspects of the “Agreement”

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 02/28/16. Last Wednesday, February 24, PSOE and Ciudadanos signed the “Agreement for a reformist and progressive government.” In general, the agreement is coherent, moderate and centrist, with mutual concessions to facilitate consensus. It is an agreement that 75% of […]

After the elections

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 01/03/16. The last general elections have produced a very fragmented parliament, with the worst results in recent democratic history for the two main parties, which barely account for 51% of the votes, the same percentage of votes as the left and […]

Everything to decide

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 12/13/15. At Corporación 5 we have been conducting market research for more than eighteen years through our subsidiary SAO, and we have our own methodology for making electoral estimates. We use the survey aggregation technique to reduce the biases and errors introduced by the […]

Collapse in TF-5

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 09/27/2015. The headline of my article coincides with that of the front page of this newspaper on September 23, when an accident early in the morning caused queues of about 15 kilometers on the Tenerife North Highway. […]

The great Greek madness

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/05/15. Just two weeks ago I was asked how I thought the negotiations between Greece and the Institutions (formerly Troika) would end, and I responded that I believed they would reach an agreement, since it was reasonable, given that both would benefit from the agreement and both would be harmed by the […]

A prize for development economics

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/24/15. The French economist Esther Duflo has just won the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for her studies on development economics. Duflo has received numerous awards and honors for his work in experimental microeconomics, a discipline that seeks simple answers […]