annual report - Ivie

10. DISSEMINATION
10.1. PRESENTATION OF STUDIES
During 2012, eleven studies by the Ivie were presented:
⎯ On January 12 the study El sector bancario español en el contexto internacional: el impacto de la crisis,
carried out by the Ivie for the Cajas de Ahorros Foundation (Funcas) and directed by the Ivie researcher
and University of Valencia Professor Joaquín Maudos, was presented in Madrid.
⎯ The University of Extremadura presented on February 16 the report La contribución socioeconómica de la
Universidad de Extremadura. José Manuel Pastor, Professor at the University of Valencia and Ivie’s
Researcher, informed the media about the study’s conclusions in an event attended by the Rector of the
University, Segundo Píriz.
⎯ In Zaragoza, on March 21, the study Análisis para la mejora de la productividad en Aragón undertaken by
the Ivie for the Economic and Social Council of Aragon was presented. The author, Matilde Mas (Ivie,
Universitat de València), outlined the main findings of the research at a conference which was attended by
the President of the Council, Natividad Blasco, the President of the Regional Government of Aragon, Luisa
Fernanda Rudi, and the Councilor for Economic Affairs and Employment of the Regional Government of
Aragon, Francisco Bono.
⎯ On April 17 at the BBVA Foundation venue in Madrid, the results of the study Universidad, universitarios y
productividad en España were presented. The study was introduced by its main authors, Francisco Pérez,
Professor at the University of Valencia and Research Director of the Ivie, and Lorenzo Serrano, Lecturer at
the University of Valencia and Ivie researcher.
⎯ The report La financiación pública de la Comunitat Valenciana y sus consecuencias económicas, carried
out by the Ivie for the Valencian Entrepreneurs Association (AVE), was presented on May 2 at AVE’s
headquarters in Valencia. The President of AVE, Vicente Boluda, and the director of the study, Francisco
Pérez (Universitat de València e Ivie) cochaired this presentation.
⎯ The study Observatorio sobre la Reforma de los Mercados Financieros Europeos 2012, conducted by the
Ivie for the Fundación de Estudios Financieros, was presented on May 16 in Madrid by the Ivie researcher
and the Professor of the University of Valencia Joaquín Maudos.
⎯ The Bancaja Foundation and the Ivie presented June 26 the results from the 6 th survey of the Observatory
of the Transition of Young People to the Labor Market in Valencia. The director of the research, José María
Peiró, Professor of Social Psychology of the University of Valencia and Ivie researcher, explained the main
findings of this last edition.
⎯ The monograph Un modelo de crecimiento y productividad regional: El caso del País Vasco was presented
June 26 at the Deusto Business School in Madrid by its authors, Matilde Mas, Professor at the University of
Valencia and Ivie researcher, and Mikel Navarro, Professor at the Deusto University and researcher of the
Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness. The book was also presented on July 10 in Bilbao by Mikel
Navarro and José Luis Curbelo, Director-General of Orkestra.
⎯ The results of Educación y desarrollo. PISA 2009 y el sistema educativo español, a research directed by
Antonio Villar, Professor at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville and Ivie researcher, were released to
the media on July 18 at the BBVA Foundation headquarters in Madrid. Antonio Villar and Rafael Pardo,
Director of the BBVA Foundation, introduced the study and summarized the main conclusions.
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