Research Areas

The Ivie, along with the Valencian Regional Government, has created the project called IvieLAB (Laboratory for the Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policy) to study the actions of public bodies in different areas. IvieLAB aims to promote debate and to design new evaluation methods and tools (e.g., databanks and indicators) to raise awareness of public policy issues in Spain. The new evaluation methods will initially be applied on an experimental basis within the Valencian public administration. Through the IvieLAB project, Ivie strives to build on both its track record and its potential to develop new ways to analyze and evaluate public policies. IvieLAB also aims to help solve problems addressed in policy research, especially those regarding the availability of information and the construction of indicators. IvieLAB’s main tasks will be as follows:

1. To design and monitor the observatories of key social and economic problems.
2. To monitor specialist literature and keep track of international policy evaluation initiatives.
3. To investigate analytical and evaluation techniques and to construct and analyze outcome and impact indicators.
4. To develop databases and indicators on the basis of which to apply developed techniques in different fields.
5. To produce methodological guides and run pilot studies aimed at adapting analyses and evaluations to management practices.
6. To disseminate results among potential users.
7. To promote cooperation among Spanish institutions specializing in public policy evaluation.

IvieLAB’s activities include a series of lectures and seminars on the Spanish welfare state that consider issues such as financial sustainability and the challenges of inequality and human security. The series of lectures and seminars, Evaluation of the sustainability of welfare policies in the 21st century, began with the lecture by Eduardo Bandrés, director of Public Economy and Welfare at Funcas and Professor at the University of Zaragoza, on May 16, 2018 at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia. The lecture discussed two aspects: income distribution through the tax-transfer system to reduce inequality and the economic security that the welfare state should guarantee against the circumstantial risks of unemployment, illness, disability and old age.

IvieLAB activities and documents

2024

Reports

• Evaluation of the implementation of European Funds
• Evaluation and analysis of policies: monitoring indicators for public expenditure
• Analysis of foreign direct investment by sector. Current situation and future directions for growth
• Economic interrelations between the Spanish regions of Valencia and Aragon: Importance and impact of developing the axis with Aragon
• Analysis of the financing system of Spain’s regions, reform proposals and instruments for the transition to the new system
• Leadership of the Valencian Community in the Mediterranean Axis
• Economic impact of the firms established in the Valencian Region
• Diagnosis of the Valencian industry by branches of activity
• The Ceramic Sector: Diagnosis and Future Challenges
• The benefits of investing in the Valencian Region
• Alcance económico de la dana del 29 de octubre en la provincia de Valencia

2023

Reports

• Evaluation of the implementation of the Next Generation European Union funds in the Valencian Region
• Evaluation of the participation of Valencian companies in Next Generation European Union funds
• Analysis of the evolution of the financing of the Regional Funding System between 2013-2023
• Impact analysis of the activity of international organizations located in Valencia: NATO’s rapid deployment in Spain
• Analysis of the evolution of the Valencian economy after the start of COVID
• Base documents of the demographic and socioeconomic situation of Bejís and Vall d’Ebo
• Base documents of the demographic and socioeconomic situation of Cofrentes
• In-depth evaluation of NGEU subsidies: beneficiaries in the Valencian Community
• Accesibilidad por secciones censales a los servicios financieros (oficinas bancarias) en la Comunitat Valenciana
• Análisis de la distribución de la población por nivel de renta a nivel municipal en la Comunitat Valenciana: prosperidad, desigualdad y pobreza
• Análisis del parque de edificios y viviendas según usos de la Comunidad Valenciana: estado de situación a partir del último censo de población y viviendas (2021)
• Propuesta para ayudar a los colectivos más vulnerables con hipoteca (situados en el umbral de exclusión) frente a la subida de los tipos de interés

2022

Reports

• The Valencian economy… 40 years after the 1982 Statute of Autonomy was approved
• Diagnostic overview of the current situation and challenges of the Valencian economy
• Evaluation of the implementation of the European Funds
• Evaluation of the participation of Valencian companies in recovery funds
• Observatory of digital transformation in the Valencian Region
• Regional divergence, fiscal co-responsibility and regional financial balances
• Indicators of price effects in the Valencian economy
• Analysis of the presence of women in management positions in Valencian companies 
• Internationalization of Valencian firms

2021

Reports:

• Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Valencian Community: Disaggregation by branches of activity
• Impacto económico de la COVID-19 en la Comunitat Valenciana: Automoción
• Impacto económico de la COVID-19 en la Comunitat Valenciana: Comercio
• Impacto económico de la COVID-19 en la Comunitat Valenciana: Ocio y entretenimiento
• Impacto económico de la COVID-19 en la Comunitat Valenciana: Servicios de transporte
• Impacto económico de la COVID-19 en la Comunitat Valenciana: Turismo
• Empleo y pandemia en la Comunitat Valenciana: Una aproximación sectorial
• Impacto del Brexit en la Comunitat Valenciana
• Presencia de las empresas valencianas en los procedimientos de contratación pública (perspectiva comparada)
• Madrid: capitalidad, economía del conocimiento y competencia fiscal. Actualización junio 2021

2020

Projects:

• Economic impact of the health emergency crisis (COVID-19)

Reports:

•  Madrid: Capital city, knowledge economy and fiscal competition
• Overcoming the COVID-19 crisis in the Valencian Community
• The Valencian Community’s audiovisual industry in the regional context
• The quality of employment generated and wages in the Valencian Community
• Impact of digitalization on the future of employment in the Valencian Community
• Economic impact of the development of AI (artificial intelligence) in the Valencian Community: Scenario analysis
• Observatory on the productive specialization and productivity level of the Valencian Community in the regional context

Lectures:

• Minimum income schemes: information systems and outcome evaluation

2019

Lectures 2019:

• April 9. Lecture by Vicente Salas: Obstáculos al crecimiento de las empresas y la productividad
• May 3. Lecture by Daniel Kaufmann: El desafío de la gobernanza, captura del Estado y corrupción: evidencia y acción
• May 7. Lecture by Juan F. Jimeno: Crecimiento y políticas sociales en un mundo de profundos cambios tecnológicos y demográficos
• June 20. Lecture by Emilio Ontiveros: Digitalización y sostenibilidad del estado de bienestar
• July 9. Lecture by Beatriz González: Innovación en sanidad: Hacia un sistema sanitario basado en el valor
• October 21. Lecture by José Luis Escrivá: La evaluación de políticas públicas: la experiencia de la AIReF

Documents 2019:

• Energy conversion in the Valencian Community. Lessons from international experience
• Infrastructures and firm access to digital services in the Valencian Community
• Recent developments, current situation and socio-economic impact of immigration in the Valencian Community
• The Valencian Community’s economic productivity: The importance of inter- and intra-sectoral differences
• The cost of not being an autonomy
• The determinants of productivity of the Valencian Community in a regional context
• Valencian firm productivity: The importance of size
• Evaluation of Economic contribution of the Valencian Community’s audiovisual industry
• Evaluation of public procurement by the Valencian regional government. Part 2. Analysis of competition in public procurement procedures
• The economics of ageing in the Valencian Community

2018

Lectures and seminars 2018:

• May 16. Inaugural lecture by Eduardo Bandrés
• May 31. Seminar: The intergenerational economy and the aging population
• June 25. Seminar: The pillars of well-being in the 21st century. Lessons of the 20th century
• July 12. Seminar: Welfare policies in the Spanish State of Autonomies
• November 29. Lecture by José García-Montalvo: Public housing policy: what works, what doesn’t and what we don’t know

Database: The development and dissemination of the database on access to banking services in Spain, created within the framework of the IvieLAB project, offers information on the number of municipalities that do not have a bank branch in their town or village due to cutbacks in the banking sector.  This database gives a comparative picture of financial accessibility in the provinces and autonomous communities of Spain. Documents 2018:

• Longevity and public services in the Valencian Community
• Valencian Community’s digital transformation: recent progress and current situation
• Financial sustainability and adaptation of the pension system
• Economic contribution of the Valencian Community’s design-intensive sectors
• Economic contribution of the Valencian Community’s audiovisual industry
• Valencian Community’s agri-food sector in the national context
• Observatory of the financial position of Valencian firms in the national context 
• Analysis of the Valencian exporting company
• The new methodology for measuring and analyzing the productive sectors in the Valencian Community and their interrelationships with the rest of the regions
• Observatory on public procurement by the Valencian regional government (Part 1)