CajaCanarias-Cabildo de Tenerife Chair of Economics and Mobility, University of La Laguna

The Chair

The Chair of Economics and Mobility, formerly known as the Chair of International Economics and Finance, adopted this new name in July 2016 with the purpose of giving it an additional focus on mobility.

The Chair is affiliated with the University Institute for Regional Development and its workplace is located in the building of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism at the University of La Laguna (ULL). Its director is Rosa Marina González Marrero, professor of fundamentals of economic analysis in the Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance at the ULL.

This chair began its activities in 2010, and during the two-year period from 2010 to 2012, its promoters were the ICO Foundation and the Island Council of Tenerife. Vicente Esteve, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia and the University of Alcalá, and affiliated as an external researcher at the University Institute for Regional Development of the University of La Laguna (ULL), was the Chair's director during this period. In 2013, the Chair was inactive due to the absence of a promoter. From 2014 until July 2016, the Chair was directed by Manuel Navarro Ibáñez, Professor of Foundations of Economic Analysis at the ULL.

Since 2014, the CajaCanarias Foundation has been the promoting entity of this Chair, which represents a meeting forum between the academic and business world of the Canary Islands in everything related to the economy and mobility.

The Chair of Economics and Mobility focuses its interest, although not exclusively, on the following thematic areas:

  • Transport, mobility and infrastructure
  • Competition and regulation
  • Energy
  • Foreign sector
  • Public finances
  • Economic and Fiscal Regime
  • Public services: health, education and social policies
  • Sustainable development
  • Environment
  • Economic growth, inequality and poverty

This Chair is primarily dedicated to the development of the following activities:

  • Organization and development of training activities such as courses, seminars, conferences, or master lectures related to the topics of the Chair.
  • Develop research programs related to economics and mobility.
  • To support, where appropriate, the publication of articles, monographs, book chapters and books on the topics studied by the Chair.
  • To develop cultural activities and to promote the teaching and research activities related to the Chair.
  • Promote the mobility of postgraduate students in activities related to the Chair.