• openAccess   Firm responses to employment subsidies A regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. 1970 / October 2016 

      European Central Bank; Gradeva, Katerina; Weber, Sebastian; Gamberoni, Elisa European Central Bank (2016-11-09)
      This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold ...
    • openAccess   Post-programme surveillance report Spain, Spring 2016 

      Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (European Commission); European Central Bank Publications Office of the European Union (2016-08-25)
      This fifth surveillance report provides an assessment of Spain's economic, fiscal and financial situation following its exit from the financial assistance programme in January 2014.
    • openAccess   What makes a good ‘bad bank’? The Irish, Spanish and German experience 

      Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (European Commission); Peresa, Irena; Medina Cas, Stephanie Publications Office of the European Union (2016-11-25)
      This paper examines the experience of three asset management companies (AMCs) or ʽbad banksʼ established in the euro area following the 2008 global financial crisis. Specifically, it studies NAMA, Sareb and FMS Wertmanagement ...