3.1. Corporate governance

Corporate governance in Spain: Advisory work at two Government Commissions on Corporate Governance, the Olivencia Commissions (1999-2001), and the Aldama Commission (2002). ASP-RP 28a/1999.

Two surveys conducted among a strategic sample of experts and a statistical sample of shareholders on their attitudes towards corporate governance (2000-2001).

Corporate governance in the Spanish banking sector : see 1.3.2. Financial institutions.

3.2. Financial institutions

Corporate governance in the banking system. ASP-RP 15a/1996.

The public’s image of the savings banks, in Spain: A survey (sponsor, Funcas Foundation) (1996).

Human resources and personnel policies in the Spanish banking sector: An analysis of human resource policies and labor relations in the Spain of the 1980s and early 1990s (1996, 1997). ASP- RP 16a/1997.

The incorporation of information technologies in Spain and their effects on financial institutions. A national survey on the public’s use of information technologies in their relation to financial institutions (1999).

3.3. The New Economy and the Information Society

Public opinion and electronic commerce and, in general, the development of the electronic economy in Spain and other countries: Three surveys among ‘internauts’ in Spain, France, Italy and Portugal (1999-2001).  

The spread of information technology in Spain and The public debate on the relationship between the new technologies and the new economy in Spain. A prospective analysis of changes induced by the new information technologies.  ASP-RP 26a/1999.

Other studies on the new economy: See 1.2.4. Regional Studies and 1.3.2. Financial Institutions.

3.4. Human resources and employment policies

Human resources and employment policies in Spain: An analysis of changes over a thirty-year period in Spain (part of a comparative study coordinated by Professors Thomas Kochan, Michael Piore and Richard Locke of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (1994). ASP-RP 2a/1994 and 2b/1994.

Employment policies in Spain: A study on the “soft side” of those policies (vocational training, collective bargaining patterns and corporate culture) (1995). ASP-RP 11a/1995 and 18b/1998.

3.5. Opinion surveys on consumption, risk and economic policies

Consumer attitudes in Spain: Three studies (including two on consumers’ responses to varieties of retail trading practices) (2000, 2001, 2002).

Class and consumer attitudes: Based on the Nielsen surveys. (2002/3). ASP book 2003c

Public attitudes towards economic and environmental risk: A survey (1998).

Public attitudes to the euro: A series of three surveys (1996-2000).

Public attitudes to an array of economic policies: A series of surveys over a three years period (1998-2000).

ASP-RP 20a/1998, 30a/1999 and 30b/1999. 

3.6. Markets and civil society

ASP-RP 59b/2006.