The crisis situation experienced intermittently from 2008 to the present has focused on the need to solve pressing economic problems that present novel features whose resolution requires their approach through multidisciplinary approaches. This is due to the fact that we are faced with a problem that we could qualify as multifaceted by combining health, cultural, migratory and environmental aspects. It is true that economic policy cannot be the only solution, however, if it can act as a catalyst for other types of policies that act in a coordinated way to generate positive synergies.
The specialization of the research group SEJ-127: Advanced Economic Studies in the design and evaluation of economic policies and, in particular, from a territorial perspective with extensive experience in this field, allows the community to offer this type of analysis that, in Ultimately, it has to contribute to improving the efficiency of the always scarce public resources. This issue is of special importance since the appearance of the COVID crisis given the high public deficits in which the Spanish Public Administrations have been incurring.
Another line of special interest on the part of this research group revolves around the analysis of the productive sectors, both in terms of employment and their productivity. Although for years the adaptation of productive sectors to a changing environment has been a crucial issue for their survival. Within these, research related to the tourism sector deserves special attention, whose relevance for the Spanish economy is undoubted.The more than twenty years of accredited experience in the aforementioned fields reinforce our commitment to them, not only for the value added that the group can contribute in these fields, but also by the proven know-how and the training recycling of its members.
His main lines of research are:

- Productive sectors: markets, employment and productivity.

- Economic policies: design and evaluation.

- Regional economic policy: economic integration and territorial development.

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