
Victor Manuel Ferreira MoutinhoUniversity of Beira Interior | UBI · Department of Management and Economics
Victor Manuel Ferreira Moutinho
PhD - Energy Systems and Climate Change
Director of the Master in Economics DGE -UBI;
Coordinator of Economics and Finance -NECE-UBI
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September 2015 - present
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In the ongoing energy transition, characterized by the electrification of economies and the integration of renewable energy sources – particularly intermittent ones – the concept of energy flexibility has emerged as a cornerstone for achieving a fair and just energy transition. This conference provides a unique platform to explore the dynamics betw...
This study investigates the impact of economic, political, social, and environmental variables on economic growth in the Member States of the European Union. A study was carried out based on scoreboard data for the 27 Member States of the European Union from 1995 to 2019, using Panel-Corrected Standard Errors in the first phase and DOLS (Dynamic Or...
The differences in Labour and Capital Productivity and Education in Europe were used to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of technical efficiency of entrepreneurship activities and new firm creation. For this purpose, two distinct methodologies were used: a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a parametric Stochast...
This study examines the determinants of economic growth by integrating technological progress, human capital, energy consumption, and monetary policy uncertainty in an extended theoretical model. The empirical investigation covers 18 economies from 2009 to 2019 and applies the Bias-Corrected Estimation (BC) and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) t...
This study aimed to examine energy poverty’s determinants in Africa across 36 countries spanning 2000 to 2020. Using fractional regression models, it analyzed how factors such as economic growth, unemployment rates, foreign direct investment, and demographic profiles influence urban and rural access to electricity. The findings highlight the positi...
Resumo O controle externo municipal exercido pelos Tribunais de Contas permite, por meio da divulgação dos relatórios de auditoria, conhecer as irregularidades encontradas nas contas dos governos municipais. Elas têm sido analisadas empiricamente, do ponto de vista de sua classificação em termos de gravidade, mas poucos são os estudos que visam ide...
The municipal external control exercised by the Courts of Accounts reveals the irregularities found in the accounts of municipal governments through the disclosure of audit reports. They have been empirically analyzed from the point of view of their classification in terms of severity, but few studies aim to identify the factors that influence such...
The current nexus between education and economic growth leads us to propose a hybrid and integrated theoretical model. The variables chosen for this research were human capital and labour, and their impact on unemployment and economic growth was considered. In the validation of the theoretical model, different equations were contemplated, and the A...
Maximum entropy in the estimation of parameters in stochastic production frontier models could be an attractive procedure in economic efficiency analysis. In this work, the generalized maximum entropy and the generalized cross entropy estimators are reviewed and their implementation in the stochastic frontier analysis is discussed. An application t...
This chapter intends to define Stochastic Frontier Models (SFA) and their applications for Eco-Efficiency (EE) assessment within environmental and economic fields. We start by presenting the methodology of efficiency assessment, discussing its advantages and disadvantages as compared to the more traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A litera...
The concern to create cleaner and more ecosystem-friendly production processes has extended to the parking sector in Spain. Since the creation of the multi-level institutional framework for sustainable mobility management (mainly composed of the Infrastructure, Transport and Housing Plan 2012–2024, the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, Law 9/2006,...
Purpose
Omnichannel is a trend also reaching events and their participants. So naturally, the trade fairs will be confronted with this reality of digital transformation. Given that exhibitors generally have the primacy of deciding to participate or not in a trade fair, this study aims to take this further, developing a representative model of exhib...
Digitisation is a phenomenon that inevitably affects companies and economies. Consequently, the virtual market seems an excellent alternative for aspiring entrepreneurs. Recent statistics precisely point to accelerated growth of e-commerce. Indeed, this and entrepreneurship are business tools that allow a new dynamic in the market. However, recent...
The digital transition is an unstoppable process that affects consumers and companies. Consequently, new sales strategies oriented to the application of digital technologies are needed to increase the performance of sale teams. Based on a sample of 517 responses from salespeople of the retail real estate, the data were analysed using the Structural...
Using a stochastic frontier analysis log-linear function and comparable data for 26 economies over the 2008–2020 period, the relationship between selected socioeconomic indicators of energy poverty and the eco-efficiency measures for a sample of European countries, is examined. Concerning selected energy poverty determinants, the main empirical fin...
This study evaluates the nexus between renewable and non-renewable energy, carbon dioxide emissions, labor force, gross capital formation, human capital, trade openness, crude oil prices, urban and rural access to electricity, on the economic growth. In empirical terms, we used aggregate data for the 2005–2018 period, in 22 Asian and 22 African eco...
Background
Buildings represent about 40% of global energy consumed, playing an important role in sustainable transformation. Health institutions account for 10% of the energy consumed by the commercial sector, however public policies do not cover energy management in this setting. Energy poverty in hospitals, such as poor heating, affect patients’...
The present research aims to conduct a systematic review on Recycling, Circular Economy, Green Energy and Green Growth looking for links between the papers published between 2005 and May 2022. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, it was possible to reach a sample of 80 articles selected...
Abstract: Sustainability and fewer carbon emissions are now two of the most common goals for countries, enterprises, and regular citizens. Electric vehicles and electric mobility play a special part in those goals. This literature review allows us to state the use of these types of vehicles and their operational and environmental issues, needs, and...
The present work aims to evaluate quantitatively the relationships between revenues and their components and expenditures and their components in the Municipality of Coimbra during the Early Modern era (1557–1836), according to the revenue and expenditure books of the Municipality of Coimbra. To examine the proposed relationships, we apply the Mark...
The objective of this article is to analyze and empirically validate the differential effects in the daily schedules of the induced electricity prices by selling bids for three different technologies, namely hydraulic, thermal and renewable energy sources (RES), in hourly values, by daily observations for the year 2018. To achieve this objective, w...
The present work aims to quantitatively measure the relationships between the price of energy commodities, coal, gas natural, fuel oil, carbon prices and the price of wholesale electricity in the Iberian Electricity Market, using 2018 daily data. To examine this relationship, we considered both techniques, Markov-Switching Dynamic Regression and Ma...
Using a unique or common measure of energy poverty is very limited for the true clas�sifcation of a household being in energy poverty. Thus, this study proposes a compos�ite indicator, whose weights will be determined from the estimation of two relationships using a robust and stable methodology based on information theory. This work considers two...
This article aims is to address whether, and to what extent, socioeconomic conditions influence entrepreneurship-based activities in 18 European countries grouped into subregions (North, South, East and West) during the period 2008-2018. We conducted the empirical study under a two-stage DEA model. The results of scores of technical efficiency of t...
The share of the elderly population is increasing, impacting countries’ economic growth, energy use, carbon
dioxide emissions, and sustainable development paths. This study analysed the effect of population ageing on
residential energy consumption for the 28 member states of the European Union for the period 2005–2018,
employing econometric methods...
This study explores the possible effect on economic growth of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and the disaggregated KOF index on the BRICS economies among 1990-2018. 1990–2018. For this purpose, the Dynamic Panel Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) was applied. The findings indicate the increase among the interaction of economic and s...
This work aims to investigate a relationship between economic and environmental drivers under the economic diversification condition including seven economic activity sectors for a set of nine OPEC countries during 1974–2016. For validating the two Environmental Kuznets Curve – EKC – equations proposed, a panel data analysis was followed through th...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) are often forced to optimize costs due to limited resources. Thus, it is important to prioritize factors that will indeed bring results in a trade show context. Sales force proactiveness is discussed as an outcomes driver which is accessible to any SME, regardless of available resources. This study examines...
The activities that depend on direct interaction with the customers were the most affected by COVID-19's restrictions. These include the activities developed by salespeople. This study aims to analyse the impact of salesmanship skills on sales strategy implementation and salesperson performance during the COVID-19 crisis. To achieve the research ob...
The Portuguese National Health System is composed of all public entities offering health services. There has been a successive increase in expenditure in recent years due to various factors that have contributed to a high degree of uncertainty about the evolution of operating costs in Public Business Hospitals. This research’s main objective is to...
This study explores the possible effect on economic growth of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and the disaggregated KOF index on the BRICS economies among 1990-2018. For this purpose, the Dynamic Panel Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) was applied. The findings indicate the increase among the interaction of economic and social globa...
This work aims to investigate a relationship between economic and environmental drivers under the economic diversification condition including seven economic activity sectors for a set of nine OPEC countries during 1974-2016. For validating the two Environmental Kuznets Curve –EKC- equations proposed, a panel data analysis was followed through the...
The aim of this article is to analyze and empirically validate the differential effects in the daily schedules of the induced electricity prices by selling bids for three different technologies, namely Hydraulic, Thermal and Renewable Energy Sources, in hourly values, by daily observations for the year of 2018. For achieving this objective, we empl...
This paper’s goal is twofold: it aims to assess the performance of 58 Iberian banks and
explore the relationship between such performance and the banks’ Intellectual Capital (IC) efficiency
during a post-crisis period. As long as the authors are aware, there is a gap in the literature in
exploring the relationship between banks’ global performance...
The present research aims to conduct a systemic review on Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development and look for links between the papers published between 2008 and May 2021. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, it was possible to reach a sample of 111 articles selected...
The nexus between economic growth and environmental conditions in BRICS countries for the period 2005–2018, using a Panel Corrected Standard Errors methodology considering cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneous slope coefficients, and aggregate data on four sectors of the economy: agriculture and forestry, industries (including construction), co...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between product innovation and network and their export performance, particularly in trade fair context. Moreover, this paper conducts a comparative study among services/industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and considers the home-country context. Innovation and interna...
The increase in human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere is one of the biggest concerns around the globe. The waste sector contributes significantly to this verified increase in emissions, not only because of the quantity of waste generated, but also because of waste treatment, a highly polluting process. To deal wi...
Trade fairs are important sources of information for decision making in marketing management. Currently, trade fairs are places where participants share useful data and information, while creating relationships between customers (visitors) and suppliers (exhibitors). However, only a limited number of studies have focused on the identification of th...
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Network, and Exhibitor’s Performance. The Entrepreneurial Orientation is seen as a highly competitive factor for the company, which can foster its trade fair business.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey-based quantitative approach was adopted,...
This paper evaluates the evolution of eco-efficiency for the 27 European Union (EU) countries over the period 2008–2018, provided the traditional high concerns of the EU concerning the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. The EU has triggered several initiatives and regulations regarding environmental protection over the years, b...
Decreased greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are urgently needed in view of global health threat represented by climate change. The goal of this paper is to test the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, considering less common measures of environmental burden. For that, four different estimations are done, one considering total...
Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the economic and environmental efficiency of Asian and African economies. In the model proposed, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is considered as the desired output and Greenhouse Gases (GHG), like carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as the undesirable output.
Capital, labor, fossil fuels, and renewable energy consump...
Trade fairs are excellent sources of information. However, there is a paucity of empirical studies on trade fairs as intelligence tools. This study aims to address this by focusing specifically on Trade Fair Intelligence Activities from the exhibitors' perspective. The study developed a conceptual model and hypotheses, then a quantitative analysis...
A new time series model is proposed, allowing to test the hypotheses of neutrality, conservation, growth, or feedback hypothesis for a group of African countries included in OPEC (Algeria, Nigeria, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Angola). The Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) unrestricted Error Correction Model (ECM) approach for the peri...
This paper explores the determinants of household electricity consumption efficiency of an ageing population. The analysis is pursued for the 28 member states of the European Union between 2005 and 2016. These determinants are evaluated through the employment of the econometric method Fractional Regression Model. Results indicate that the share of...
The consumption of electricity has been increasing in the last decades, imposing multiple challenges at environmental,
economic, and social level. Therefore, energy efficiency in several sectors of the economy has
become one of the main goals for policy makers and society in general. In addition, the increase of an ageing
population and the changes...
Sectors contribute differently to the total level of CO2 emissions per capita, since they are heterogeneous in terms of GDP structure. This work investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis considering a set of twelve of the fourteen OPEC countries. It contributes to previous literature exploring the Environmental Kuznets Curve relations...
We propose a new model in time series that allows to validate the hypotheses of neutrality, conservation, growth or feedback hypothesis for a group of African countries included in OPEC (Algeria, Nigeria, Lybia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola). For this propose we use the Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) unrestricted Error Correction Mod...
This paper explores the determinants of the household’s electricity consumption efficiency
related with an ageing population. The analysis is pursued for the 28 member states of the
European Union between 2005 and 2016. The determinants are evaluated through the
employment of the econometric method Fractional Regression Model. Results indicate that...
The transportation sector represents an important barrier to decarbonising economies. The introduction of electric vehicles seems to be a promising solution; however, the intensive use of such vehicles remains a challenge for economies. By using the two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, this paper aims to provide useful insights to enla...
Cities and living standards contribute intensively to air pollution, an environmental risk factor which causes diseases. Recently, in developed countries, the majority of cities has grown rapidly and has experienced increasing environmental problems. In this article we analyze the effect of urban air pollution considering the available data for the...
We examine short and long run dynamic impact of energy consumption, oil prices, trade openness and urbanization on economic growth, for six individual African OPEC countries, provided the scarcity of research, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) unrestricted Error Correction Model (ECM) for the period 1973–2017. Results reveal high coi...
This study aims to evaluate the resource and environment efficiency problem of Asian countries. In the model proposed, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is considered as the desirable output and Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions as the undesirable output. Capital, labor, fossil fuels and renewable energy consumption are regarded as inputs. The GDP/GH...
An extensive decomposition analysis was used to research the primary driving forces behind energy-related carbon dioxide emissions per capita for the period 1993 to 2017 in a panel of South American countries. Evidence was found that the effect of per capita renewable productivity was challenging and compromised in South Latin American countries. D...
Few studies have attempted to study the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis
at the individual sector level using more than one sector at once. This paper
investigates the existence of the EKC hypothesis in the Iberian countries (Portugal
and Spain) using thirteen economic activity sectors for each, analyzing each individual
sector’s cointe...
We investigate the relationship between electricity generated in the waste sector and landfill, GHG emissions generated by waste disposal, the renewable energy consumption in the waste sector, Gross Domestic Product per capita, and the domestic material consumption (fossil energy materials), in the EU-15 countries, over the period from 2001 to 2017...
Population ageing is accelerating, i.e., the share of older persons in the population is increasing which might lead to considerable impacts on economic growth, energy use and related carbon emissions, affecting sustainable development. In this paper, we propose to study the effect of population ageing on the electricity households’ demand for the...
This work proposes a new Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis by considering the economic diversification in the analysis between economic growth and carbon emissions for a set of 9 OPEC countries in the period 1974 - 2016. To study the relationship between environmental degradation and/or improvement and economic growth, we propose to eval...
We research the response of the proportion of student borrowers with ninety or more days of delinquency or in default to variables such as unemployment and the average debt per borrower after the financial crisis of 2007–2008, in the United States, using panel data of 50 states from 2008 to 2015. The proportion of borrowers with delinquency or defa...
The objective of this paper is to formulate some propositions about the role of trade fairs on the different stages of product innovation process. A review of the pertinent literature is presented in order to define some key concepts about innovation process. Specifically, the concept of innovation and the phases of the innovation process will be d...
This article focuses on the analysis of the main determinant drivers of CO2 emission changes together with the state of decoupling for a set of six Central American countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama, in four 5-year time-spans, between the years of 1994-2014. To accomplish the first objective proposed, initial...
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact that variables such as waste disposed by Landfill, Renewable Energy extracted from waste and Electricity generated from waste have on the score for Eco-efficiency for a set of European countries (EU15) for the period between 2001 and 2015. Eco-efficiency is measured by using the ratio of the GDP p...
The ecological burden of economic growth is a highly discussed issue. In this article, we focus on the set of European Union (EU) 15 countries in the period 1995–2014. We first decomposed emissions into six effects and afterward the decoupling-effort index was used to calculate the magnitude of impact that each factor has on it, considering the cou...
This study aims to estimate the agricultural economic-environmental efficiency (Eco-efficiency) for European countries. Eco-efficiency is obtained by Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis using a Generalized Maximum Entropy approach. Agriculture Gross Value Added (GVA) is considered as the desirable output and Greenhouse Gas (G...
This presentation is focused on a complete decomposition analysis in order to investigate and quantitatively analyse the main factors driving the energy-related carbon emissions per capita during the period from 1993 to 2013 to a panel of South American countries. It is shown a clear evidence of different adaptation velocities to challenges and com...
This study was developed according to a two-step approach. In the first step, we provide an investigation of the changes in eco-efficiency under constant and variable return to scale, while on a second step the evaluation of the decoupling elasticity will be given. The impacts of energy, economic and environmental determinants (inputs) on the perfo...
This study breaks down carbon emissions into six effects considering the current Top 23 countries group on renewable energies, afterwards divided into two different groups (the TOP countries in Europe and the remaining group entering into the Top 23 countries included in the category Rest of the World). It analyses the effects evolution using a lar...
This article intends to compute agriculture technical efficiency scores of 27 European countries during the period 2005–2012, using both data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with a generalized cross-entropy (GCE) approach, for comparison purposes. Afterwards, by using the scores as dependent variable, we apply quan...
This article analyzes the strategic bilateral bidding behavior in the Spanish electricity wholesale market (OMEL). The collection of data includes information regarding weekly averages of spot prices, the quantity bid in the wholesale market, the quantities purchased in the wholesale market and sold in the open market, and the behavior of conduct p...
Patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) are mostly asymptomatic and TAA is rarely related to heart failure (HF). We report the case of an 80-year-old female patient, with type A TAA without dissection, with right pulmonary artery and left atrium compression, who presented with HF, preserved ejection fraction and acute pulmonary edema.
This paper contributes to the literature by extending the long-run and the causal relationship between greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and economic growth to a panel of 13 Portuguese economic sectors over the period 1975–2013. Hence, we test for the case of Portugal whether a relationship between economic activity and emissions exists,...
This paper analyzes a set of selected German and French cities’ performance in terms of the relative behavior of their eco-efficiencies, computed as the ratio of their gross domestic product (GDP) over their CO2 emissions. For this analysis, eco-efficiency scores of the selected cities are computed using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniqu...
This article aims to estimate the efficiency of 26 different European Countries over 2001 and 2012 comparing their performance. Data Envelopment Analysis technique is used in a first step to evaluate the performance of each European country. The output-oriented model was used with two specifications (Variable and Constant Returns to Scale) includin...
This article aims to estimate the efficiency of 26 different European Countries over 2001 and 2012 comparing their performance. Data Envelopment Analysis technique is used in a first step to evaluate the performance of each European country. The output-oriented model was used with two specifications (Variable and Constant Returns to Scale) includin...
• It is a disquieting reality that increased economic growth for many years now in the Western world is at odds with environmental degradation. In this paper the relationship between economic growth and environmental variables is analyzed under two non-linear specifications, a quadratic and a cubic specification. The study is conducted for Portugal...
This paper explores the energy (electricity)–economic growth nexus in the case of Poland. The empirical investigation sheds some new light on the relationship between the electricity production from fossil fuel sources (oil, coal, and natural gas) and economic growth based on cointegration and Granger causality analyses with yearly data covering th...
This article seeks to add to the body of knowledge on the role played by brand experience and its relationship with satisfaction, trust and service quality in the development of loyalty.
Structural Equation Modelling (sem) is used to analyze 690 telecommunications multiple-play users in the Portuguese telecommunications market. Our conclusions show...