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    • A comparison of banks and real estate intermediaries as house sellers 

      Montalvo, Jose G.; Raya, Josep Maria (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 2023;(38):1385–1407, 2023)
      The foreclosure crisis associated with the banking crisis transformed banks in the hardesthit countries into real estate brokers. The main novelty of this paper is to study banks as sellers of their own ...
    • Differences in residents' attitudes towards tourism among mass tourism destinations 

      martinez-garcia, esther; Raya, Josep Maria; Majó Fernández, Joaquim (International Journal of Tourism Research. 2017;19(5):535-545, 2017-09)
      This article contributes to extant knowledge by analysing differences in the attitudes towards tourism of residents living in several micro-destinations (cities) within a larger tourism destination, ...
    • Economic and social yield of investing in a sporting event: sustainable value creation in a territory 

      Crespo Sogas, Patrícia; Fuentes Molina, Ivette; Araujo Batlle, Alex; Raya, Josep Maria (Sustainability. 2021 Jun 23;13(13):7033, 2021-06-23)
      Sporting events are a stimulant for the economy and for improving social benefits. This paper aims to estimate a sporting event’s economic and social impact through input–output tables and cost-benefit ...
    • Factors affecting time spent visiting heritage city areas 

      martinez-garcia, esther; Raya, Josep Maria; Galí, Núria (Sustainability. 2018;10(6):1824, 2018-06-01)
      Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption ...
    • How on earth did Spanish banking sell the housing stock? 

      Torres-Pruñonosa, Jose; García Estévez, Pablo; Raya, Josep Maria; Prado-Roman, Camilo (SAGE Open. 2022;12(1):1-14, 2022)
      The accumulation of properties by Spanish banks during the crisis of the first decade of the 21st century has definitely changed the housing market. An optimal house price valuation is useful to determine ...
    • How to become a cashless economy and what are the determinants of eliminating cash 

      Raya, Josep Maria; Vargas, Claudia (Journal of Applied Economics. 2022 Apr 4;25(1):543-562, 2022-04-04)
      This paper aims to ascertain the determinants by which individuals decide to use credit cards as a payment method rather than cash; that is, to understand changes in socioeconomic factors on the long-term ...
    • El proceso de Bolonia en el área de contabilidad: efectos sobre la satisfacción de los estudiantes 

      Oliveras, Ester; Crespo Sogas, Patrícia; Raya, Josep Maria (Educade: Revista de Educación en Contabilidad, Finanzas y Administración de Empresas. 2013;(4):22-33, 2013)
      La adaptación de las universidades españolas al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) ha introducido un cambio de modelo educativo. Tradicionalmente, la educación universitaria en España se ha ...
    • Socially responsible HR practices and their effects on employees’ wellbeing: empirical evidence from Catalonia, Spain 

      Celma, Dolors; martinez-garcia, esther; Raya, Josep Maria (European Research on Management and Business Economics. 2018 Aug;24(2):82-89, 2018-08)
      Corporate social responsibility towards employees has been promoted by international organizations that produced recommendations, conventions, principles and other documents to enhance job quality and ...
    • The economic and social value of science and technology parks. The case of Tecnocampus 

      Torres-Pruñonosa, Jose; Raya, Josep Maria; Dopeso-Fernández, Roberto (Frontiers in Psychology. 2020 Dec 23;11:632600, 2020-12-23)
      This article aims to measure both the economic and social value of Tecnocampus, a Science and Technology Park in its region of influence (Mataró city in the Maresme region of Catalonia, Spain). Our ...
    • The economic and social value of spa tourism: the case of balneotherapy in Maresme, Spain 

      Torres-Pruñonosa, Jose; Raya, Josep Maria; Crespo Sogas, Patrícia; Mur, Esther (PLoS ONE. 2022 JAN 31;17(1):e0262428, 2022-01-31)
      The aim of this article is to assess both the economic and social value of balneotherapy and spa tourism, being the first paper in carrying out this analysis. The study has been conducted in Maresme, a ...
    • The importance of administrative data in the evaluation of the incidence of social housing allowance programmes 

      Raya, Josep Maria; Torres-Pruñonosa, Jose (Evaluation and Program Planning. 2022 Oct;94:102117, 2022-10)
      The aim of this work is to assess the rental assistance programme that was implemented by the Catalan regional government in the 2010s using administrative data provided by the Catalonia Housing Agency ...
    • The real estate and credit bubble: evidence from Spain 

      Akin, Ozlem; Montalvo, Jose G.; Garcia Villar, Jaume; Peydró, José-Luis; Raya, Josep Maria (SERIEs. 2014 Aug;5(2-3):223-243, 2014)
      We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on mortgage loans in Spain. The dataset contain real estate credit and price conditions (loan ...