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    • closedAccess   An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs 

      Giménez, Víctor; Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Verlag (2017-02)
      This study uses the global non-radial Malmquist index to measure performance change in the educational systems of 29 countries/economies participating in PISA 2003 and 2012 for students at age 15 in the disciplines of ...

    • openAccess   Beyond the energy balance: Exergy analysis of an industrial roller kiln firing porcelain tiles 

      Ferrer Castán, Salvador; Mezquita, Ana; Aguilella, Vicente; Monfort, Eliseo Elsevier (2019-03)
      The ceramic tile manufacturing process consumes large amounts of energy, mainly in the firing stage. Firing usually takes place in natural gas-fuelled continuous roller kilns, the most widely used tile firing facilities ...

    • closedAccess   Comparing the Performance of National Educational Systems: Inequality Versus Achievement? 

      Giménez, Víctor; Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Netherlands (2018)
      We measure performance change for the educational systems of 28 countries which participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in years 2007 and 2011 for eighth grade basic education students. ...

    • openAccess   Cooperativas, libertad y eficiencia 

      Herranz, Adrián Universitat Jaume I amb el suport del Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions (2024)
      Las cooperativas de trabajadoras son deseables porque otorgan control democrático a sus trabajadoras y pueden operar eficientemente. Para defender esta doble tesis, el artículo procede del siguiente ...

    • closedAccess   Decentralization and efficiency of local government 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer-Verlag (2010)
      This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two-stage activity analysis in which the performance ...

    • openAccess   Do political connections matter for bank efficiency in times of crisis? 

      Abdelsalam, Omneya; Mollah, Professor Sabur; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; EL-MASRY, AHMED John Wiley and Sons Ltd (2024-01-23)
      Do political connections affect bank efficiency during crises? This study addresses this question by adopting a two-stage approach that performs a quantile regression analysis on a unique dataset of listed banks in a region ...

    • openAccess   Effects of Frequency Dependence of the External Quantum Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Ravishankar, Sandheep; Aranda Alonso, Clara; Boix, Pablo P; Anta, Juan A.; Bisquert, Juan; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà American Chemical Society (2018-05)
      Perovskite solar cells are known to show very long response time scales, on the order of milliseconds to seconds. This generates considerable doubt over the validity of the measured external quantum efficiency (EQE) and ...

    • openAccess   La eficiencia y la innovación en las subredes de empresas. Un estudio del distrito cerámico español 

      Molina-Morales, F. Xavier; Martínez-Fernández, M. Teresa; Coll Serrano, Vicente Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2012)
      La homogeneidad dentro del distrito industrial frente a las empresas externas se ha asumido tradicionalmente en la literatura. Sin embargo, nuestro trabajo sugiere que los distritos muestran un cierto grado de heterogeneidad. ...

    • closedAccess   Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      In recent years, Spanish local governments have come under increasing pressure to accommodate severe economic restrictions while maintaining their provision of local public services. We analyse overall cost efficiency in ...

    • closedAccess   Evaluation of efficiency in Colombian hospitals: An analysis for the post-reform period 

      Giménez, Víctor; Prieto, William; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2018)
      In this study we analyze the performance of 602 level 1 Colombian hospitals for the period 2009–2013. The analysis is carried out from both static and temporal perspectives in order to evaluate the evolution of total factor ...

    • openAccess   Evolution of sorted waste collection: a case study of Spanish cities 

      Gallardo Izquierdo, Antonio; Bovea, María D; Prades Martí, Míriam; Colomer Mendoza, Francisco José Sage Publications (2012-05)
      This work analyses how selective collection evolved over the period 1998–2007 in Spanish towns and cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants. To do so, both the legislation in force during the years included in the study ...

    • closedAccess   Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Arribas, Iván; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2020-05)
      Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ...

    • closedAccess   La gestión eficaz de la Comunicación Interna en las empresas españolas. Análisis de las campañas y acciones ganadoras de los Premios a las Mejores Prácticas en Comunicación Interna (2011-2015) 

      Belcea, Alexandra Universitat Jaume I (2016-11-10)
      En un contexto de cambio y trasformación en las empresas españolas, cada vez es más importante contar con equipos cohesionados y alineados con el proyecto empresarial. Esta necesidad de conseguir o mantener la motivación ...

    • openAccess   Governing Scarcity. Water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain 

      Garrido, Samuel Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-12)
      It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the ...

    • openAccess   Implications of the differences in healthcare organization 

      Díaz Marco, María Universitat Jaume I (2022-07-07)
      The aim of this paper is to present and reflect on certain conceptual and situational elements that influence the discipline of health economics. First, it looks at the macroeconomic environment, where the necessary ...

    • openAccess   In situ ethanolamine ZnO nanoparticle passivation for perovskite interface stability and highly efficient solar cells 

      Sánchez-Godoy, H. E.; muhammed, kunnummal; Rodríguez-Rojas, Rubén; Zarazúa, Isaac; Masi, Sofia MDPI (2022-02-28)
      Zinc oxide (ZnO) has interesting optoelectronic properties, but suffers from chemical instability when in contact with perovskite interfaces; hence, the perovskite deposited on the top degrades promptly. Surface passivation ...

    • openAccess   Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Taylor and Francis Group (2019)
      We analyse the determinants of local government efficiency taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To do so, first we estimate an efficiency index using the robust order-m ...

    • openAccess   Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review- part II 

      Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; De Witte, Kristof Wiley (2017-02)
      The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive review of the existing literature on local ...

    • openAccess   Market games as social dilemmas 

      Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Ziros, Nicholas Elsevier (2018-11)
      In an experimental exchange market based on Shapley and Shubik (1977), two types of players with different preferences and endowments independently submit quantities of the goods they wish to exchange. In this context, ...

    • openAccess   Path to sustainability 

      Cabo Folgado, Estefanía Universitat Jaume I (2023-11-30)
      The work that I am going to analyze refers to the objectives and goals of the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the importance in particular, of Development Goal number 7 that highlights the current ...