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    • Sustainability practices at private universities: a state-of-the-art assessment 

      Leal Filho, Walter; Kovaleva, Marina; Fritzen Gomes, Bárbara Maria; Hubert, Fudjumdjum; Emblen-Perry, Kay; Platje, Johannes; Tuladhar, Liza; Vasconcelos, Claudio Ruy Portela de; LeVasseur, Todd; Minhas, Aprajita; Farinha, Carla; BUIL-FABREGÀ, MARIAN; Novo-Corti, Isabel; Țîrcă, Diana-Mihaela; Da Cunha, Dênis Antônio (International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 2021;28(5):402-416, 2021)
      Private universities are important actors in higher education, and also play a key role in the sustainability debate. But despite their importance, there a shortage of research on how sustainability is ...

    • 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 ...

    • Construction of biophysical indicators for the catalan economy: building a new conceptual framework 

      Manera, Carles; Serrano Robles, Eloi; Pérez-Montiel, José A.; Buil-Fabregà, Marian (Sustainability. 2021 Jul 4;13(13):7462, 2021-07-04)
      The main objective of this work is to create an environmental vision of the Catalan economy based on various indicators. To do this, we started from the fundamental idea of obtaining new metrics to ...

    • Monetary policy and asset price bubbles: a laboratory experiment 

      Gali, Jordi; Giusti, Giovanni; Noussair, Charles (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 2021 Sep;130:1-15, 2021-09)
      Leaning-against the-wind (LAW) policies, whereby interest rates are raised in the face of a growing asset price bubble, are often advocated as a means of dampening such bubbles. On the other hand, there ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Can social capital variables help to determine loan to value approved by banks? 

      Raya, Josep Maria (Journal of Real Estate Research. 2022;44(3):355-376, 2022-02-14)
      This paper sheds some light on the effects of social capital variables (social network data, physical appearance, etc.) on loan-to-value (LTV), a crucial variable to evaluate systemic risk. Using a ...

    • Management, cooperatives and sustainability: a new methodological proposal for a holistic analysis 

      Manera, Carles; Serrano Robles, Eloi (Sustainability. 2022 Jun 20;17(2):7489, 2022-06-20)
      This article examines how the advent of the new globalisation and climate change requires us to transform the scientific paradigm of economics and, therefore, poses new challenges for analysis. In ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • BS-QUAL: measuring student perceptions of service quality in business schools, an exploratory study 

      Bagur-Femenías, Llorenç; Llach, Josep; Buil-Fabregà, Marian (Tertiary Education and Management. 2023 Feb 13;29:161–187, 2023-02-13)
      The number of Business Schools (BS) and their market share had increased in the last decades. Positioning strategy of BS is crucial in today’s competitive and changing environments. Thus, paying attention ...

    • El reto de mantener los principios de la economía social a largo plazo: el caso de TUSGSAL 

      Bernardo, Valeria; Hernández-Adell, Ismael; Serrano Robles, Eloi (REVESCO. Revista de Estudios Cooperativos. 2023;1(143):e69184, 2023-02-27)
      Las organizaciones de la economía social se encuentran en un momento importante desde el punto de vista económico y social. Nuevos modelos de negocio, el papel de la innovación, la atención a los grupos ...

    • Overeducation and childcare time 

      Kucel, Aleksander; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat (International Journal of Manpower. 2023;44(9):108-127, 2023-08-01)
      Purpose – Research shows that parental employment and education status affect the amount of parental childcare time, which is a fundamental determinant of children’s outcomes. In this paper, the authors ...