Climate change impacts tourism, since both supply and demand of tourism services depend on the quality and the management of a set of environmental attributes. This paper critically reviews the empirical evidence in the literature of the last twenty years (2000-2019), by identifying the potential impacts of climate change in coastal and maritime destinations. The concept of Impact Chains is the methodological framework through which the literature is systematically selected, classified and assessed. A great heterogeneity of results is found, with estimates of physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change differing across destinations and methodologies. Moreover, the majority of recent studies mainly deals with only a few of the most important impacts, hence future research should be redirected to overlooked indicators and relationships, which are key for designing effective climate policies at tourism destinations.

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Las universidades están obligadas a mejorar la evaluación si quieren formar para tener “éxito” en el s.XXI; no obstante, en sus aulas, las prácticas de evaluación siguen ancladas en la calificación ligada al examen. Nuestro estudio se planteó como objetivos, por un lado, analizar la percepción del profesorado de nuestra Facultad en torno a la importancia, competencia y utilización de la evaluación y, por otro, constatar si sus prácticas de evaluación están orientadas al aprendizaje. Para alcanzar estos objetivos se ha desarrollado una metodología mixta, esto es, se han utilizado tanto estrategias cuantitativas (cuestionario) como cualitativas (análisis documental y grupos de discusión) recurriendo a la complementariedad que caracteriza este tipo de métodos. Respecto a las percepciones del profesorado, hemos hallado que el profesorado percibe como importante la evaluación y se considera competente para ponerla en práctica a pesar de que piensa que no la usa suficientemente. Por otra parte, los resultados han demostrado que sus prácticas de evaluación no se orientan al aprendizaje. Defendemos la necesidad del estudio de las actitudes y de las prácticas de evaluación del profesorado contextualizadas, para el diseño de planes de formación del profesorado.

This paper identifies and then quantifies econometrically the impact of leniency programs on the perception of the effectiveness of antitrust policies in the business community using panel data for as much as 59 countries and 14-year span. We use the dynamics of the gradual diffusion of leniency programs across countries and over time to evaluate the impact of the program, taking care of the bias caused by self-selection into the program. We find that leniency programs increase the perception of effectiveness by an order of magnitude ranging from 10% to 21%. Leniency programs have become weapons of mass dissuasion in the hands of antitrust enforcers against the more damaging forms of explicit collusion among rival firms in the market place.JEL Codes: D7; K2; L4; O4.

During the recent years of economic boom in Spain, political corruption at the local level boomed as well. In fact, it increased from 7 publicly denounced cases from 1999 to 2003 to at least 180 in the legislative period (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). In this paper, we explore this phenomenon in two related ways: how it has affected voting results and political participation, and whether the wrongdoing of local politicians has undermined the voters' trust in them. We constructed a socioeconomic municipality database that matched polling results and corruption cases and then estimated a voting-share equation by difference-in-difference and matching techniques. Our results confirm that the voters' attitude towards corruption is significantly different with respect to parties on the right or the left. In fact, after a prosecution in a local corruption case, abstention increases by an average 1.8 percentage points, left-parties' voting share is reduced by approximately 2 percentage points, while right-parties' share increases approximately 2 points. JEL classifications D02 . D73 . P16