Governance and Economics research Network, is a research group at the Ourense Campus of the University of Vigo. Further information at http://webs.uvigo.es/infogen
martes, 20 de septiembre de 2016
"Descentralización y Sistema Tributario: Lecciones de la Experiencia Comparada"
The book "Descentralización y Sistema Tributario: Lecciones de la Experiencia Comparada" will be presented today at 17:00 in Madrid (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales). This book is written by Santiango Lago Peñas and Alberto Vaquero García, both members of GEN, and it is edited by "Fundación Impuestos y Competitividad".
miércoles, 20 de julio de 2016
Galician Sports Betting
In the
collaboration with the Galician Football Association, GEN is launching the
Galician Sports Betting. This pioneer initiative in Spain has the objective of
creating new incomes for the Galician Football, boosting its image and improving
the positioning of the local football clubs.
According
to the estimations, this system will generate between 2.4 and 10.2 millions of
euros in annual incomes.
The sports
betting system will consist of a weekly bet on thirteen matches, a bet to an
additional game (the jackpot system) and one more bet for the first nine
games. Each betting slip will include nine matches of the Third Galician
division, two games of the First Female Division and two games of the Regional
Division. This initiative, which will combine a paper betting slip with the
electronic betting, will commence trial from the season 2016/2017.
martes, 12 de julio de 2016
Favouring bigger teams
Statistics confirms what football supporters
suspected, Carlos Lago (GEN Uvigo) and Maite González (European University of
Madrid) have made a study where they analyze all La Liga matches during the
2014-2015 season. They have found that the greater the difference in the score,
less additional time is added to the end of the game.
In their study "The
Influence of Referee Bias on Extra Time in Elite Soccer Matches", published in the “Perceptual and Motor Skills”
journal, the researchers have found that referees give advantage to the big
teams by shortening the added extra time when they are ahead on the scoreboard.
However, If they are losing the referees would slightly lengthen the game.
Their study was based on 380 matches played in
the Spanish First League, considering other variables (goal difference, number
of red and yellow cards, changes, assists and fouls). After applying linear
regression it was observed that the greater the difference in the score, the
lower the additional time was granted by the referee.
There is also a bias that favours local teams,
as the pressure of spectators manages to make the referees to add up to 112
seconds to the usual extra time in the cases when the home team is losing.
According to the interview with Carlos Lago, these
actions have not been shown to be malicious, but simply human decisions. To
avoid this, he recommends better training of referees and avoiding
subjectivity.
The full newspaper article on this topic is
available at the following link:
martes, 21 de junio de 2016
Promoting the transparency of municipalities through the internet
In March this year, the Government of
Galicia has introduced a web portal that promotes transparency and good
governance. The platform www.eidolocal.gal
is a place where Galician municipalities can publish their activities and
services, and more importantly fulfill the transparency criteria set by the
legislation.
In meeting this criteria they will be
enjoying the help and collaboration of the University of Vigo. According to the
contract between the University and the Galician institutions the project will
be funded by 40000 euros, which will be provided between 2016 and 2017. The
collaboration comes as no surprise since this is not the first time the
university is contributing to the local community in the area of law
implementation and development, with Red Localis, a network based on Public
Local Administration developed by GEN.
The research group GEN of the University of
Vigo will have the honor of performing this task and providing expert advice
and support to all municipalities that have to exhibit transparency in their
work. By using the platform, the citizens will be able to access relevant
information of the local administrations and councils.
The full newspaper article on this topic is
available at the following link:
viernes, 10 de junio de 2016
Further than GDP
Albino Prada and Patricio Sánchez, researchers
from GEN, have made a
study where they show how some of the richest countries of the world are at the
same time some of the worst when it comes to transforming growth into social
development.
The study was recently published in the Social
Indicators Research journal (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-015-1206-0). It takes a look at the rich countries of
the world and their rankings in terms of material wealth and it analyses the
relationship between wealth levels and estimates of social development, using
United Nations Development Programme indicators, which are related to health,
education, environment, employment and social welfare.
Among some peculiar cases, they found Kuwait,
UAE and Saudi Arabia, which all appear on the top of the ranking if we measure
their wealth by GDP. However, when the human development index (HDI) is
analysed, they descend over 100 positions. On the opposite side, they find that
the countries that are worst placed in wealth ranking, increase their positions
when analysing progress in welfare or social cohesion. For example, China makes
an ascending leap of 62 places in the ranking of social development.
The study shows that the larger the value of an
indicator gets, the difference in the opposite ranking will be more pronounced.
Finally, they conclude that the results allow them to identify which
countries transform economic growth into social development in a better way
than the others.
miércoles, 20 de abril de 2016
The dictator's great goals
Last April the 13th, three of our
investigators signed an article titled “Democracy and Football” and published
on Social Science Quarterly, an important American journal.
The paper talks about the influence of fascism
and communism on the winners of football championships. The Lago-Peñas
brothers mix their knowledge of sports, politics science and economics to
explore to what extent political regimes affected the competitive balance in
domestic football leagues. Relying on data from around 50 European countries
and over 2,000 domestic leagues, they showed that the percentage of league
competitions won by the most successful club in the country is substantially
lower in democracies than in non-democracies.
viernes, 8 de abril de 2016
2016 Workshop RIFDE-GEN
RIFDE and GEN will organize a workshop on October 19 and 20 in Santiago de Compostela about sustainable public policies making emphasis on sub-central tax office and reform of autonomous community
funding.
If you are interested, please, send us the title and an extended abstract to rifde@rifde.es
For more information see: www.rifde.es
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