This report examines Spain’s position in the green economy, analysing its productive capabilities, the competitiveness of its exports and its diversification potential. To do so, it draws on R&D investment data and on the Green Transition Navigator to identify opportunities for Spain to thrive in green export markets amid the global energy transition. Spanish R&D […]

Esade publishes every six months, with the support of Banco Sabadell, the Economic and Financial Report, which on this occasion celebrates its 37th edition. With it, Esade maintains its vocation to contribute to public debate through rigorous and plural analysis that, as a prestigious school and with the complicity of its entire academic community, reinforces […]

Every six months, with the support of Banco Sabadell, Esade publishes the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report), which on this occasion celebrates its 36th edition. Through it, Esade maintains its commitment to contributing to public debate with rigorous and plural analysis which, as a prestigious school and with the involvement of its […]

This paper evaluates the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on productivity and work inequality. I run a Randomized Controlled Trial in a university debating competition, in which I randomly assign GenAI support to students to prepare a series of one-on-one debates. This novel setting allows me to measure productivity improvements in a task involving […]

El 11 de julio a las 11:30h presentamos el Informe Económico y Financiero #35 de Esade, realizado con el apoyo del Banco Sabadell. En el webinar contamos con Sofía Rodríguez (Chief Economist y Assistant General Manager en Banco Sabadell), quien presenta las claves del contexto económico. Además, Antonio Barroso, managing director en Teneo, Alicia García […]

Every six months Esade publishes, with the support of Banco Sabadell, the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report), which will soon turn twenty. With this report Esade seeks to stay true to its mission and contribute to society with what it does best: providing knowledge to improve public debate. The Report thus aims […]

Every six months Esade publishes, with the support of Banco Sabadell, the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report), which will soon turn twenty. With this report Esade seeks to stay true to its mission and contribute to society with what it does best: providing knowledge to improve public debate. The Report thus aims […]

Last Monday, November 20, a debate about ‘Un país posible: manual de reformas políticamente viables’ (“Un País Posible: manual of politically viable reforms”) took place at the Cercle d’Economia de Barcelona. The conversation around the book coordinated by Toni Roldán, Lucas Gortazar, Teresa Raigada and Jorge Galindo was moderated by Miquel Nadal, general director of […]

Spain has practically the same real per capita income as 15 years ago, while other countries around us are much richer than they were then. This means that over the last eighteen years we have not improved our average standard of living. We are therefore on the road to two lost decades. There are many […]

For more than fifteen years, every six months Esade has published the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report) with the support of Banco Sabadell. With this report, Esade seeks to stay true to its mission and contribute to society with what it does best, providing knowledge to improve public debate. The Report thus […]

We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods in Spain. The intensive, eightweek-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in groups of two students during after-school hours, six months after Covid-19 related school closures […]

For more than fifteen years, every six months Esade has published the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report) with the support of Banco Sabadell. With this report, Esade seeks to stay true to its mission and contribute to society with what it does best, providing knowledge to improve public debate. The Report thus […]

The initial draft of the 2023 General State Budget anticipates an increase of some 25 billion euros in social spending compared with 2022. Of this, around 19.5 billion will go to pensions, and 12.43 billion specifically to the general 8.5% indexation announced by the government. In other words: half of the new social spending goes […]

For more than fifteen years, every six months Esade has published the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report) with the support of Banco Sabadell. The Report aims to offer a snapshot of the global and Spanish economic landscape and, in each edition, focuses on an issue of particular relevance to current economic affairs. […]

For more than fifteen years, Esade, with the support of Banco Sabadell, has published the Informe Económico y Financiero (Economic and Financial Report) twice a year. The Report aims to analyse the main economic trends and contribute ideas to address the main economic policy challenges. Esade seeks to stay true to its mission and contribute […]

Territorial polarisation is among the main megatrends of 21st-century globalisation. The causes of depopulation are structural and are associated with the dynamics of globalisation and agglomeration economies. In this policy brief we analyse data on the evolution of depopulation in Spain over the last 25 years and study the different manifestations of the territorial divide: […]

¿Cómo queda la foto de las desigualdades causadas por la pandemia, un año y medio después de la eclosión global del virus?

Menttores consisted of an 8-week long, intensive online tutoring program, with three 50-minute sessions a week for pupils aged 12 to 15

Menttores consisted of an 8-week long, intensive online tutoring program, with three 50-minute sessions a week for pupils aged 12 to 15 (years one and two of compulsory secondary education) in 18 state and grant-assisted schools (colegios concertados) in the Region of Madrid and Catalonia (Barcelona and Lleida).

Toni Roldán, director de EsadeEcPol, conversará con Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en el ámbito de la despoblación y sus implicaciones socioeconómicas.

Es muy probable que la política monetaria ultra-laxa del BCE, combinada con una llegada masiva de fondos y una débil gobernanza de Next Generation EU (NGEU) en el ámbito de las reformas resulte en una oportunidad perdida para el impulso de la productividad en el sur de Europa.

En este Policy Brief analizamos las diez políticas palanca y la gobernanza del “Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia: España Puede”.

Martin Sandbu (Financial Times) and Toni Roldán (EsadeEcPol) analyse the root causes of our current challenges in light of the increasing polarisation.

In this webinar, Toni Roldán, director of EsadeEcPol, and Manuel de la Rocha, Secretary-General of Economic Affairs and G20.

At EsadeEcPol we estimate that next year’s economic growth will be slightly higher than half of what the government expects.

Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, analyses the economic impact of Covid-19 and the challenges and opportunities for Spain.

We estimate the cost of a quasi-universal temporary cash transfer of 1,000 euros for an initial duration of three months.

This article uses assumptions based on available healthcare data to draw up three possible economic impact scenarios.

How can we prevent a new euro crisis? Toni Roldán and Aitor Erce offer their views on the Covid-19 pandemic and its potential economic consequences.

Most member states will need a backstop from Europe to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

Existing consensus regarding education reforms is much broader than what is visible in the public debate.

→ This research brief summarizes the results of research evaluating the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on productivity and inequalities through a debate tournament experiment (RCT), in which students are randomly assigned ChatGPT support to prepare for a series of one-on-one debates. → Contrary to results so far in the literature that point to […]