La intervención del sector público en la economía de las sociedades desarrolladas se articula fundamentalmente a través de la regulación. Por ello, una regulación económica de calidad, con normas eficientes, trámites simplificados e instituciones eficaces, se convierte en un factor central del funcionamiento óptimo de las actividades productivas y, por tanto, del crecimiento y el desarrollo económico.El objetivo del presente trabajo es elaborar un índice para evaluar la calidad de la regulación económica en Andalucía. Para cumplir este objetivo se construye un índice de naturaleza híbrida, que combina datos objetivos, con otros de naturaleza subjetiva. La parte objetiva del índice incorpora 11 componentes, con datos procedentes de los indicadores “Doing Business”, elaborados por el Banco Mundial y la Contabilidad Nacional de España (INE). La parte subjetiva, que cuenta con otros 6 componentes, se basa en los resultados del Indicador de Confianza Empresarial elaborado por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y el Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía. El índice toma valores ente -1 (máxima restricción) y 1(mínima restricción).El trabajo contribuye a refinar la metodología de elaboración de estos tipos de índices al combinar elementos objetivos y subjetivos, a diferencia, por ejemplo, del European Quality of Government Index (EQI), o el Product Market Regulation (OCDE), que solo incorporan datos subjetivos.Como resultado a destacar, el estudio concluye que el marco regulador en  Andalucía, en el periodo objeto de estudio, ha evolucionado hacia un menor grado de restricción, alcanzando en 2016 un valor de -0.1339, frente a -0.1470 en 2013.  Asimismo, se observa un proceso de convergencia con relación al índice nacional.

As Bagus and Howden (2010) highlighted, one of the paths to achieve a more fruitful understanding of the business cycle involves examining saving as a heterogeneous analytical category. The aim of this paper is to continue this line of inquiry using the capital-based framework developed by Garrison (2001). This paper contributes to the literature by studying the impact of heterogenous savings on economic growth and business cycles in a capital-based macroeconomics framework. With this aim the implications of disaggregated saving is analysed by means of the differential market signals that are generated by cash-build savings (Pătruți, 2017) and loanable funds accessible through the credit markets.

As the Spanish economy slid into recession during 2009, the debate over the role of the public deficit came into the spotlight once again. However, there has been little emphasis on determining the causes and the nature of the imbalances in the government’s accounts. We study the structure of aggregate public budgets and use regression analysis to address these two issues. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, our results show that budget’s  stability was transitory and that, in reality, an average primary deficit of 3,30% of GDP prevailed throughout the years between 1992 and 2015.

This paper discusses the relationship of cultural participation in performing arts with the manifested interest. Using the data set from the Cultural Habits and Practices Survey 2018-2019 a binary probit model has been applied for the analysis. Emphasizing the role of aging in participation, especially for the group of the elderly and very old. The age variable is one of the most difficult variables to apprehend, in which the cohort effects, age itself and period should be considered. This paper is an approach to the study of the aging effect on cultural participation, which would be continued with the analysis of the Surveys in previous years. This work shows that there is no homogeneous behavior between participation and interest within the different performing arts. Presenting some of them differentiating features.

The Enlightened Movement in Spain is widely known for its modernizing effort and its economic and social reform projects in Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries. In line with the European Enlightenment, the ideals of classical liberalism and utilitarianism began to spread hand in hand with the enlightened intellectuals as a paradigm towards the well-being of the people. The anthropocentric turn of the Enlightenment brought with it not only the struggle for the rights of man and the consequent evolution of European absolute monarchies towards enlightened despotism, but also the evolution of the very perception of wealth, well-being and happiness of the society. Thanks to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus or Jeremy Bentham, the roots of the Happiness Economics can be traced back to the 18th century through the association they made between the economic development of society and the level of happiness. This paper analyzes the project of the Royal Sevillian Economic Society of Friends of the Country for the salted meat trade with the province of Buenos Aires as a case study of the connection between economic development, well-being and happiness in the Spanish Enlightenment through the study of the transcripts of sessions collected in the Libro de Actas No. 1 (1775-1780) and the copies of letters collected in the Book of Correspondence of the Society, as well such as the loose papers available in the Municipal Archive of Seville.