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Empirical evidence mostly describes the negative effects of grade repetition on academic performance. Nevertheless, the international use of this educational policy is still widespread. In this study, drawing on data for the Spanish case, we provide additional evidence on the need to consider different policies to grade repetition in order to enhance the achievement of low-performers.

Since the beginning of the crisis, determinants of economic growth have returned to the forefront of economic debates. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to analyse how the global economy has evolved in the years between 1996 and 2009, focusing our analysis on developed countries, in order to determine the factors that can explain economic growth. To do that, our work analyses the main magnitudes provided by the WIOD and the associated Multiregional input-output model.

Este artículo estudia los determinantes de la Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED) en América Latina desde una perspectiva novedosa. Demuestra que los denominados efectos de transvase y de confianza, definidos a partir de la posición que cada país ocupa en la red mundial de fusiones y adquisiciones, influyen positivamente en la recepción de inversión extranjera.

This paper examines the three most common notions of convergence – beta, sigma, and times series approaches – applied to the Eurozone since its Maastricht´s design in 1992 until the start of the crisis in 2008. Due to the limitations of the income per capita approach, this paper focuses in general and sectorial productivity per hour convergence. Evidence of convergence is not found at a general level, while the sectorial picture is mixed.