Rafael Fernandez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Fernandez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernandez |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Applied Economics Complutense University of Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5711-5317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evaluating education disruption by integrated school and road infrastructure system analysis
Public education is considered a fundamental service governments should offer to their population. Nonetheless, in the occurrence of natural hazard events, it is often disrupted, as the school infrastructure gets damaged. Besides the physical damage to school buildings, factors such as the inability to commute also affect the capacity to restart classes. In destructive events, the commuting capacity can be affected by the structural damage of bri…
GLOSI taxonomy: A tool for ‘seismic risk assessment’ oriented classification of school buildings
For the seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of school infrastructure in a region, it becomes necessary first to identify and classify these constructions into a distinct number of structural typologies characterised by their vulnerability features. This enables us to rank the expected vulnerability of different typologies at the initial screening stage as well as to characterise the representative index buildings of different typologies for…
Towards disaster risk mitigation on large-scale school intervention programs
Education infrastructure is one of the main barriers on school quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs), since it is insufficient and unevenly distributed. Improving the school infrastructure is needed to provide a high-quality education environment. Although research on how to improve the infrastructure is available, there is still a lack of a consistent and systematic approach to develop large-scale interventions at the national or …
Impacts of ocean biogeochemistry on atmospheric chemistry
Ocean biogeochemistry involves the production and consumption of an array of organic compounds and halogenated trace gases that influence the composition and reactivity of the atmosphere, air quality, and the climate system. Some of these molecules affect tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol formation and impact the atmospheric oxidation capacity on both regional and global scales. Other emissions undergo transport to the stratosphere, where …
Resilient communities through safer schools
Access to education is a basic human right. It is the 4th of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and education is strongly associated with poverty reduction. Providing facilities to educate children requires construction of school buildings and rapid expansion of curricula. However, in the rush to fulfil the right to education, are children being put at risk? What attention is being given to structural safety during the construction of ne…
A Political Economy Approach to the E uropean U nion Gas Model: Continuities and Changes
The E uropean U nion gas model worked steadily for nearly four decades: since the time that gas first emerged as an important resource in E uropean energy demand. However, since the late 1990s this stability has been disrupted by a number of factors. The EU reform agenda has been the most important of these. Following a structural‐conduct‐performance plan, the E uropean C ommission has forced changes on players, scenarios and exchange mechanisms …
Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment
Kazakhstan became a petro-state in the 1990s, after signing important oil production agreements with several transnational companies. In recent years, Kazakhstan’s government has imposed the revision of former agreements on these corporations. This article contends that said revision has allowed the national players, government and the state oil company, to extend rent-seeking, but that the changes have not been deep enough to attain national oil…
European Union Economies Facing ‘Baumol's Disease’ within the Service Sector
This article analyzes the productivity of the service sector within the countries of the European Union during the period 1994–2005. After disaggregating the sector into 11 branches, the article quantifies the relative contribution of each branch to the growth of service sector aggregate productivity. The main conclusion is that the structure of the industry is increasingly dependent on those branches which have lower growth in labour productivit…
The future of Russian gas exports to East Asia: Feasibility and market implications
Labour Productivity: A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and United States, 1994–2007
This article confirms that labour productivity in the European economies has continued to slow down in recent years. U.S. productivity growth has been higher than in the EU, but only since 2001. At the same time, both economies have modified previous employment performance: EU employment growth is now higher than in U.S. This article proposes that productivity growth be explained by demand dynamics, and investment in particular, not forgetting th…
Some Scenarios for Russian Oil Exports up to 2020
This article analyses the potential for Russian oil export growth through the next decade. It concludes that supply for exports will continue to grow, albeit moderately. The greater or lesser intensity of that growth will depend on the evolution of both production and internal consumption, and especially on the reaction by investors to sector changes promoted by government energy policy. From this analysis, we find three likely scenarios for Russ…
Calendar of Meetings
Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, The New Challenge of Latin American Nationalism to Foreign Investment-Present and Future. The Institute inquired into and attempted to provide the means of understanding recent changes in the investment climate together with the new social restlessness, the new economic and political nationalism, and motivations underlying these changes in Latin America
Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment
Kazakhstan became a petro-state in the 1990s, after signing important oil production agreements with several transnational companies. In recent years, Kazakhstan’s government has imposed the revision of former agreements on these corporations. This article contends that said revision has allowed the national players, government and the state oil company, to extend rent-seeking, but that the changes have not been deep enough to attain national oil…
European Union Economies Facing ‘Baumol's Disease’ within the Service Sector
This article analyzes the productivity of the service sector within the countries of the European Union during the period 1994–2005. After disaggregating the sector into 11 branches, the article quantifies the relative contribution of each branch to the growth of service sector aggregate productivity. The main conclusion is that the structure of the industry is increasingly dependent on those branches which have lower growth in labour productivit…
A Political Economy Approach to the E uropean U nion Gas Model: Continuities and Changes
The E uropean U nion gas model worked steadily for nearly four decades: since the time that gas first emerged as an important resource in E uropean energy demand. However, since the late 1990s this stability has been disrupted by a number of factors. The EU reform agenda has been the most important of these. Following a structural‐conduct‐performance plan, the E uropean C ommission has forced changes on players, scenarios and exchange mechanisms …
The future of Russian gas exports to East Asia: Feasibility and market implications
Some Scenarios for Russian Oil Exports up to 2020
This article analyses the potential for Russian oil export growth through the next decade. It concludes that supply for exports will continue to grow, albeit moderately. The greater or lesser intensity of that growth will depend on the evolution of both production and internal consumption, and especially on the reaction by investors to sector changes promoted by government energy policy. From this analysis, we find three likely scenarios for Russ…
Calendar of Meetings
Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, The New Challenge of Latin American Nationalism to Foreign Investment-Present and Future. The Institute inquired into and attempted to provide the means of understanding recent changes in the investment climate together with the new social restlessness, the new economic and political nationalism, and motivations underlying these changes in Latin America
Some Scenarios for Russian Oil Exports up to 2020
This article analyses the potential for Russian oil export growth through the next decade. It concludes that supply for exports will continue to grow, albeit moderately. The greater or lesser intensity of that growth will depend on the evolution of both production and internal consumption, and especially on the reaction by investors to sector changes promoted by government energy policy. From this analysis, we find three likely scenarios for Russ…
Labour Productivity: A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and United States, 1994–2007
This article confirms that labour productivity in the European economies has continued to slow down in recent years. U.S. productivity growth has been higher than in the EU, but only since 2001. At the same time, both economies have modified previous employment performance: EU employment growth is now higher than in U.S. This article proposes that productivity growth be explained by demand dynamics, and investment in particular, not forgetting th…
European Union Economies Facing ‘Baumol's Disease’ within the Service Sector
This article analyzes the productivity of the service sector within the countries of the European Union during the period 1994–2005. After disaggregating the sector into 11 branches, the article quantifies the relative contribution of each branch to the growth of service sector aggregate productivity. The main conclusion is that the structure of the industry is increasingly dependent on those branches which have lower growth in labour productivit…
The future of Russian gas exports to East Asia: Feasibility and market implications
Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment
Kazakhstan became a petro-state in the 1990s, after signing important oil production agreements with several transnational companies. In recent years, Kazakhstan’s government has imposed the revision of former agreements on these corporations. This article contends that said revision has allowed the national players, government and the state oil company, to extend rent-seeking, but that the changes have not been deep enough to attain national oil…
A Political Economy Approach to the E uropean U nion Gas Model: Continuities and Changes
The E uropean U nion gas model worked steadily for nearly four decades: since the time that gas first emerged as an important resource in E uropean energy demand. However, since the late 1990s this stability has been disrupted by a number of factors. The EU reform agenda has been the most important of these. Following a structural‐conduct‐performance plan, the E uropean C ommission has forced changes on players, scenarios and exchange mechanisms …
Resilient communities through safer schools
Access to education is a basic human right. It is the 4th of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and education is strongly associated with poverty reduction. Providing facilities to educate children requires construction of school buildings and rapid expansion of curricula. However, in the rush to fulfil the right to education, are children being put at risk? What attention is being given to structural safety during the construction of ne…
GLOSI taxonomy: A tool for ‘seismic risk assessment’ oriented classification of school buildings
For the seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of school infrastructure in a region, it becomes necessary first to identify and classify these constructions into a distinct number of structural typologies characterised by their vulnerability features. This enables us to rank the expected vulnerability of different typologies at the initial screening stage as well as to characterise the representative index buildings of different typologies for…
Towards disaster risk mitigation on large-scale school intervention programs
Education infrastructure is one of the main barriers on school quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs), since it is insufficient and unevenly distributed. Improving the school infrastructure is needed to provide a high-quality education environment. Although research on how to improve the infrastructure is available, there is still a lack of a consistent and systematic approach to develop large-scale interventions at the national or …
Impacts of ocean biogeochemistry on atmospheric chemistry
Ocean biogeochemistry involves the production and consumption of an array of organic compounds and halogenated trace gases that influence the composition and reactivity of the atmosphere, air quality, and the climate system. Some of these molecules affect tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol formation and impact the atmospheric oxidation capacity on both regional and global scales. Other emissions undergo transport to the stratosphere, where …
Evaluating education disruption by integrated school and road infrastructure system analysis
Public education is considered a fundamental service governments should offer to their population. Nonetheless, in the occurrence of natural hazard events, it is often disrupted, as the school infrastructure gets damaged. Besides the physical damage to school buildings, factors such as the inability to commute also affect the capacity to restart classes. In destructive events, the commuting capacity can be affected by the structural damage of bri…
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