annual report - Ivie

José Manuel Montero (Banco de España)
Enrique Moral (Banco de España)
M.ª Engracia Rochina (Universitat de València)
Felipe Rojas (GRIPICO-Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Amparo Sanchis Llopis (Universitat de València)
Juan Alberto Sanchis Llopis (Universitat de València)
Carlos Albert (Ivie, Universitat de València)
URGAN MORPHOLOGICAL ZONES: LAND COVER AND DEMOGRAPHY (2012)
Research works on urban areas usually face the problem of delimiting the scope of these areas with a fair
degree of accuracy. This report addresses this difficulty with a completely different approach to the traditional
procedures that use demographic principles. To this end, the recent model developed by the Spanish National
Geographical Institute, the new Land Cover and Use Information System of Spain (SIOSE) which categorizes
the land covers in Spain and allows a high degree of detail thanks to its high resolution, is used to define the
urban morphological zones (UMZ). Urban areas are established as those artificial areas which shape the
complex pattern of densely populated areas, i.e. incorporating not only built-up residential areas, but also
areas for administrative, commercial, health and transportation services, artificial parks and gardens. Also a
hierarchical model of simple cover allocation is developed. Once the UMZ are defined, and using the one
square kilometer population grid for Spain developed by the authors in a previous report, the population is
assigned to each urban area. Next, the most populated UMZ are selected and a set of urban indicators is
produced for these zones, such as the surface of green areas or sport facilities per inhabitant.
Research team:
Francisco J. Goerlich (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Isidro Cantarino (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)
FINANCIAL AND BANKING INTEGRATION: NEW APPROACHES AND RECENT PROBLEMS (2012-2013)
In recent years the role of financial and banking integration has gained great importance due to the
development and spread of the international financial and economic crisis. The purpose of this study is to
present a set of approaches for the measurement of the level of integration achieved in the banking, financial
and debt markets, as well as their effects on the growth and role in the current financial crisis. In particular, the
research is carried out from three perspectives: 1) the different types of integration indicators and their
properties; (2) the analysis of integration in the banking, capital and debt markets; and (3) the advancement of
the European integration and the effects of the crisis on it.
Research team:
Iván Arribas (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Emili Tortosa-Ausina (Ivie, Universitat Jaume I)
Giorgio Fagiolo (Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italia)
Co-Pierre Georg (Deutsche Bundesbank y Oxford University)
Alfredo Martín (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Mattia Montagna (Kiel Institute)
Francisco Pérez (Ivie, Universitat de València)
Francisco Rodríguez (Universidad de Granada)
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS (2012-2013)
Within the research line that the Ivie develops for the BBVA Foundation, dedicated to the analysis of social
capital, in 2005 and 2006 a methodology was developed for the estimation of the social capital variable and a
social capital database was built for Spain and a set of OECD countries. The current project continues this line
of research and has as main objectives to revise, in the light of recent developments in the related literature, the
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