José Baños-Pino

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Economics

The widespread adoption of information and communication technologies has led to the emergence of new business models and increased competition among tourist destinations. In recent years, Smart Tourism Destinations (STDs) have started to leverage information and communication technologies to enhance the overall tourist experience, allegedly improv...

This paper analyzes environmental efficiency in the tourism sector, considering the joint production of desirable (overnight stays) and undesirable (tourism waste) outputs while addressing spatial dependence among destinations. Employing the enhanced hyperbolic distance function methodology, we integrate stochastic frontier analyses and spatial eco...

This paper introduces a novel framework for characterizing destination overcrowding in rural tourism using a production approach. We build upon destination life cycle, carrying capacity, and consumer preference theories to characterize optimal levels of overnight stays in the presence of disutility from crowding. Using panel data for rural tourism...

This study evaluates whether college students change their beliefs about the social, economic, and environmental effects of tourism activities after receiving educational training. In particular, our goal is to examine if economic instruction affects their views about the impacts of cruise tourism development. We conduct an experiment with students...

The health risks associated with COVID-19 have increased tourists’ safety concerns when traveling. We analyze the linkages between tourists’ length of stay and their perceptions about health security in different public venues at the destination: the street, bars and cafes, restaurants, the chosen accommodation, the beach, and shops and stores. We...

Second-home tourism is a popular tourism activity by which people spend leisure time away from home at second residences. Given the budget constraint, savings from not having to pay for the accommodation might produce expenditure reallocation effects on other items. This paper examines the differences in expenditure between tourists who stay at mar...

This study evaluates the changes in the expenditure-price elasticities of foreign tourists in the summer periods of 2019, 2020, and 2021. We first develop a theoretical characterization that combines microeconomic, loss aversion, price inequality and precautionary savings theories. Next, exploiting microdata for more than 34,000 foreign tourists vi...

Since July 2021, Airbnb discloses whether listings in Paris hold a mandatory registration number to legally operate. Grounded on information asymmetries and moral hazard theories, this paper studies consumers' preferences for certifications of legality and minimum quality standards. We exploit the staggered disclosure of licences over time to evalu...

Taking a holiday trip is a common couple-based leisure activity in which both partners tend to be actively involved. This paper studies the intra-household bargaining for the choice of a vacation destination within couples. We conduct a discrete choice experiment in which we elicit both individual and couple preferences for different hypothetical t...

This study performs an empirical analysis of the productive efficiency of toll motorway concessionaire companies in Spain. We estimate a dynamic stochastic frontier model using an input-oriented distance function for 30 concessionaires during the 2003-2015 period. Considering a multi-output production technology with light and heavy vehicles, we es...

Short-term residential vacation rentals (RVRs) have increased their popularity in recent years. Local governments have introduced different regulatory changes to control their supply growth. This paper evaluates a policy intervention in a Northern Spanish destination that has reduced the bureaucratic procedures to officially open a RVR since 2016....

Weather has been shown to affect consumption patterns by altering people's moods. This paper examines the impact of atmospheric conditions on destination expenditure considering cruise passengers' onshore expenditure as the case study. We exploit quasi-random variation in a set of hourly real-time weather indicators in a port of call, through the T...

This paper studies bandwagon effects in tourism travel decisions. We examine how social influence affects individual decisions (i) to take a vacation trip, and (ii) the choice of destination. We use representative microdata for 28 European countries between 2014 and 2016 involving more than 60,000 individuals. Our empirical model accounts for the p...

Do people vaccinated against COVID-19 exhibit a greater propensity to take a vacation trip? This paper answers this research question using nationwide survey microdata for a representative sample of the Spanish population in the summer of 2021. To provide a causal estimate of how COVID-19 vaccine affects travel propensity, our identification strate...

Information and communication technologies play a critical role in tourism, providing benefits such as improvement in tourism experiences, co-creation of value, and promotion of the marketing of relationships and phygital experiences, where online and offline environments are combined. In recent years, tourism planning and management through smart...

The high level of academic interest in the smart paradigm has led to a significant increase in the scientific production associated with smart destinations in recent years. This paper aims to study its development and structure by using bibliometric analysis techniques and focusing on the destination, as opposed to previous research of a more gener...

This study evaluates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourists’ length of stay and daily expenditures at a destination. The paper compares detailed microdata for visitors to a Northern Spanish region in the summer periods of 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2020 (after the pandemic outbreak). We estimate the pandemic-induced impacts on the length of s...

This research examines how deep travel habits in the form of habit formation and reduced substitutability between tourism travel and other leisure goods impact travel resilience after COVID-19. Using microdata for almost 3000 tourists in Andalusia (Spain), we relate post-pandemic outbreak tourism participation to pre-pandemic travelling intensity a...

This paper studies individual preferences for place‐based attributes in the context of nature‐based domestic tourism trips. We examine the regional characteristics that explain tourist destination choice focusing on taste heterogeneity for distance and temperature. We examine the influence of a set of mean shifters in the marginal utilities for reg...

This study performs an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of toll motorway concessionaire companies in Spain. We estimate a dynamic stochastic frontier model using an input-oriented distance function for 30 concessionaires during the 2003-2015 period. Considering a multi-output production technology with light and heavy vehicles, we est...

Weather conditions are important determinants of tourism demand. After reviewing the main contributions of previous research on the role of climatic variables in tourism demand functions, we explore different modelling alternatives to introduce temperature and rainfall in a gravity model. The dataset used comprises interregional tourism flows by Sp...

Purpose This paper aims to examine hotel guests’ satisfaction relative to room rates paying attention to the heterogeneity in the scale of satisfaction scores. Design/methodology/approach This paper studies guests’ post-purchase hotel evaluation using survey data from a sample of 14,879 tourists visiting a Northern Spanish region. This study estim...

This paper studies the relationship between the Euribor rate and the return on average assets (ROAA) of the Spanish banking sector. We use quarterly time series data for the period 1995-2016. Our analysis also controls for bank factors, market concentration, the macroeconomic environment and time effects. The main purpose is to examine how the sect...

This paper analyzes tourists' preferences for hotel booking mode using a sample of 17,921 tourists visiting a Northern Spanish region during 2005-2016. Four different booking modes are considered: telephone, the internet, travel agency and other non-market-based intermediaries. We estimate a Finite Mixture Multinomial Logit Model that allows us to...

This paper studies the marginal rates of substitution and Willingness to Pay for holiday trip characteristics. By means of a Discrete Choice Experiment, we specifically examine how much individuals from four cities in Northern Spain are willing to pay for accommodation, mode of transport, travel time and length of stay. We estimate a Latent Class M...

Undertaking economic impact studies serves to determine the importance of transport infrastructures to the regions and cities in which they are located. While such studies have focused on large infrastructures such as ports and airports, few have examined logistic infrastructures. In this paper we calculate the economic impact of Zaragoza Logistics...

This study analyzes the expenditure patterns of cruise ship passengers during stopovers in the Canary Islands, which is a key variable for evaluating the economic impact of this type of tourism from the point of view of local key stakeholders and residents. Information on cruisers’ expenditure was collected in each port of call by survey responses...

By considering spatial relationships, this study aims to analyse to what extent per capita CO 2 emissions are determined by renewable energy consumption, the share of the services sector in GDP, energy intensity and real per capita income. A panel data set composed of 173 countries over the 1990-2014 period is used to estimate an environmental Kuzn...

This article analyses tourists’ length of stay in a particular destination using a Hurdle Count Data model that allows us to first identify the determinants of the decision to be a same-day visitor or a tourist, and then to explain the length of stay for tourists. Apart from sociodemographic characteristics, we are interested in the effects of dist...

In this paper, a stochastic frontier analysis approach is applied to estimate energy demand functions in the transport sector. This approach allows us to obtain energy efficiency measures at country level that are a robust alternative to the energy intensity indicators commonly used for international comparisons. A transitive multilateral price ind...

This paper presents an innovative approach to analyzing road vehicle freight traffic that uses a dynamic panel data specification derived from a gravity model. This dynamic approach, which has recently been employed in international goods trade models in lieu of the traditional static specification, is applied to the case of Spain using data for th...

Road transportation infrastructure projects in Spain have been promoted, raising the quality of Spain’s road transportation network to European standards in a short period of time. The objective of this chapter is to measure the output effect of road transportation infrastructure in Spain in the period between 1997 and 2006. In particular we estima...

As to the application of stochastic demand frontier, an estimate of final power demand was obtained, as well as the efficiency of the sample countries (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the period 1970-2010. A power efficiency ranking among countries was developed, and it was possible to compare it with the pattern obtained when power intensity i...

The main goal of this study is to determine the effects of socio-economic, demographic and land-use factors on long-distance travel. Intercity trips are not very frequent activities, which caused a large share of the survey respon-dents to report zero kilometres travelled. The Double Hurdle Model, Infrequent Purchase Model and Heckman Selection Mod...

The economics literature offers many examples of studies of the economic impact of transportation infrastructure such as highways, ports, and airports; however, little attention has been paid to other types of infrastructure such as logistics platforms. This article is a first assessment of the economic effects of the largest logistics platform in...

This article analyses the behaviour of the functions of importing and exporting goods by maritime transport in Spain during the period 1994.I–1998.IV. Cointegration techniques are used in the estimations to obtain long-term price and income elasticities. These estimations can be used to assess the effects of price modifications in the volume of imp...

Los flujos comerciales entre distintos países han sido ampliamente estudiados en la literatura económica. Sin embargo, los flujos de mercancías dentro de un mismo país no han sido analizados de una forma tan exhaustiva pese a suponer un porcentaje muy importante del comercio total de productos manufacturados. El objetivo de este trabajo es el estud...

In this study, a stochastic frontier cost function is used to estimate the econmic efficiency of Spanish ports through panel data. The sample covers annual data of 27 Spanish ports from 1985–1989. By comparing a Cobb-Douglas function with a translog, it is found that the latter best represents the technology according to the data. Analysing the eff...

This study highlights the impact that investment in a project to expand the Port of Santander would have, and the effects of this investment on economic growth and employment in Cantabria. To this end a methodology based on estimating an aggregate production function has been used which, by applying econometric techniques of cointegration, detects...

In the present section, we estimate cost functions for Solid Bulk shipping transport by 34 private firms for 1991. The functional form used is the Translog drawn by Christensen et al. (1973). We also estimate the Allen and Morishima elasticities of substitution, and compare and interpret the results as well.

In this paper we use a theoretical model for sea transport demand services in Spain for the period 1975–1990. Using quarterly data, we estimate separate equations for the different of sea traffic, focus in Liquid Bulk traffic.

The empirical analysis of production functions can be directed at least in two different ways which may have the same results. Firstly, we may directly assume a particular and flexible production function, and then test the different restrictions stage by stage, in order to find the most suitable functional form. An alternative way would be to assu...

This paper analyses the behaviour of the functions of importing and exporting goods by maritime transport mode in Spain during the period 1994.I–1998. IV Cointegration techniques are used in the estimations to obtain long-term price and income elasticities. These estimations can be used to assess the effects of price modifications in the volume of...

En este trabajo se realiza un estudio de la evolución del impacto del turismo en la economía asturiana durante el periodo 1998–2008. La metodología empleada consiste en la aplicación del análisis Input-Output a la medición del gasto turístico regional, de manera que permite evaluar los distintos niveles de efectos (directos, indirectos e inducidos)...

In this paper we use a theoretical model for sea transport demand services in Spain for the period 1975-1990. Using quarterly data, we estimate separate equations for the different of sea traffic, focus in Liquid Bulk traffic.

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Objective To describe primary care and hospital emergency utilization rates in Asturias health districts from 1994 to 2001 and to analyse their variability.

To describe primary care and hospital emergency utilization rates in Asturias health districts from 1994 to 2001 and to analyse their variability. Hospital and primary care rates from 1994 to 2001 in the 8 Asturias health districts were estimated. Their variability was analysed using indirect standardisation and small area variation statistics. Alm...

Availability of primary care emergency facilities has been improved to help curb heavy growth in the use of Accident and Emergency Departments (A&EDs). The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between time series for visits to hospital A&EDs and primary care centres. Using a co-integration time series we analyse the visits to the emerge...

Greater accessibility to the primary care continuing care points (CCP's) could reduce the visits to the Hospital Emergency Services (HES's). This study analyses whether Primary Care can replace and Hospital Services in emergencies. All of the emergency visits (n=6.454.034) made to the HES's and Primary Care CCP's in Asturias and of each one of the...

In some contexts, firms have to deal with certain elements or factors that affect the production outcome but which are non-market in nature and therefore do not have a price. In this paper we propose a new use of a production economics tool, the input distance function, to empirically measure the effects of these factors. Although we suggest a gene...

The previous models, based on the conventional demand theory, provide us with empirical evidence for road, railway and air transport in Spain from 1980 to 1988. We obtain the Marshallian demand functions with respect to relevant income and price variables for each modes of transport analyzed. In this work we offer income and price elasticities esti...

This paper discusses whether a public firm such as RENFE satisfies the cost minimization condition. Through the estimation of the shadow prices of the production inputs we obtain the grade of the firm’s allocative inefficiency and its origin. The methodology used is based on the estimation of a Shephard distance function for the input, the dual of...

In this study we measure the economic impact of sports on the regional economy. In particular, we focus on the effects generated by the activity of the two most important football clubs in the region. From the different tools traditionally used in macro-economic studies of sports, we have chosen the input-output analysis. The data, on the economic...

Spanish public institutions employ a variety of combined strategies to promote technological innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises. This article describes a particular experience with several sectors in a municipality in industrial decline in the North of Spain. The instruments developed have attempted to discover capabilities and diffic...

The main contribution of this research is to offer a theoretical explicative model and provide empirical evidence to the determinant variables which explain the behaviour of maritime imports and exports for a particular economy such as the Spanish one. Until now, maritime transport demand functions have been estimated without taking into account wh...

An original model is put forward in this article to explain and consider the behavior of some of the most important public services in Spain. The cost function approach and the input distance function approach are used to estimate the existence of overcapitalization as a result of rate of return regulation. The results show that overcapitalization...

This investigation offers a first theoretical and empirical study which analyses the effect of the regulation on the productivity in European railways. To do this, we have estimated a system based in the duality theory of the distance functions, using a panel data with 17 European railways. We have calculated the marginal cost of the regulation and...

This investigation offers a first theoretical and empirical study which analyses the effect of the regulation on the productivity in European railways. To do this, we have estimated a system based in the duality theory of the distance functions, using a panel data with 17 European railways. We have calculated the marginal cost of the regulation and...

Esta investigación ofrece un primer estudio que analiza teórica y empíricamente cómo se ve afectada la productividad de las compañías ferroviarias europeas por el marco regulador en el que desempeñan su actividad. Para ello, hemos estimado un sistema de ecuaciones basado en la dualidad de las funciones de distancia, utilizando un panel de 17 compañ...

This study justifies the contemporary importance of efficiency analysis. The theoretical concepts of technical, allocative, and economic efficiency are presented. Empirical problems are addressed, with different ways of measuring efficiency and their inherent disadvantages presented. A theoretical application is given for haulage firms operating on...

This study justifies the contemporary importance of efficiency analysis. The theoretical concepts of technical, allocative, and economic efficiency are presented. Empirical problems are addressed, with different ways of measuring efficiency and their inherent disadvantages presented. A theoretical application is given for haulage firms operating on...

In this study, a theoretical model for the passenger transport demands in Spain is presented. Quarterly data have been used for the 1980.I-1992.IV period. Cointegration techniques, which are subject to a wide range of tests, are used to obtain short and long ran equations. Moreover, the product, price and cross elasticities of each mode of transpor...

This study justifies the contemporary importance of efficiency analysis. We put forward the theoretical concepts of technical, allocative, and economic efficiency. We then tackle problems of an empirical nature. In this way, different ways of measuring efficiency are presented, with their main disadvantages. To finish, a theoretical application is...

This paper is an empirical application of the distance function to study the allocative efficiency of a regulated railway Spanish firm, RENFE, where the cost minimising hypothesis may be questioned. Besides and in contrast with other studies, we include the possibility of the presence of persistent allocative inefficiency. To achieve these aims, we...

La iniciativa ATYCA del MINER incide en la innovación tecnológica como factor de mejora de la competitividad de las PYMES. En ese marco de actuación, este artículo muestra una experiencia particular realizada sobre varios sectores de pequeñas empresas industriales en el municipio de Gijón. Los instrumentos desarrollados trataron de fomentar las int...

In this paper we present an analysis of the determinants of Spanish maritime imports and exports, in the context of Spain's integration into the European Union and taking into account the modifications that this has meant for its international trade. We have applied the Johansen and Juselius multivariate techniques of cointegration in order to exam...

In this study, we analyze how it is possible to estimate the degree of overutilization of quasi-fixed inputs using two alternative methods: the cost function and the input distance function. From a theoretical point of view, if the assumptions upon which the cost function is based are satisfied, the two methods should coincide. We have applied the...

In this study, a theoretical model for the passenger transport demands in Spain is presented. The data is used for the 1980.I-1992.IV quarterly period, and several equations are estimated for the different modes of transport: railway (Talgo), railway (long distance); road and air transport. Cointegration techniques, which are subject to a wide rang...

In this paper we explain the decline in cinema attendance in Spain since 1968. We use a cointegration analysis to estimate an individual demand function for cinema, with annual data and in terms of average attendance per inhabitant. We find that cinema is a luxury good and that its demand is elastic with respect to its price. We also show that tele...

The behaviour of 'General Cargo' shipping transport in Spain is analysed.Derived demands for the period 1975-1992 are estimated. Cointegration techniques are used to obtain long-run and short-run equations, both estimated separately in two steps, and jointly in one step. Price and output elasticities agree with previous findings and could be used f...

Empirical literature studying the effects of public capital on the performance of private enterprises remains inconclusive after more than 20 years since Aschauer seminal paper. Depending on the methodology adopted, the type of infrastructure and the level of data aggregation, a wide range of impacts have been found. While the results using aggrega...