Comparative analysis of football efficiency among two small countries: Portugal and Greece. (2008)
IOANNIS DOUVIS, CARLOS PESTANA BARROS
This paper estimates changes in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) applied to a...
IOANNIS DOUVIS, CARLOS PESTANA BARROS
This paper estimates changes in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis(DEA) applied to a...
IOANNIS DOUVIS, CARLOS PESTANA BARROS
This paper estimates changes in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis(DEA) applied to a...
Technical and allocative efficiency of tax offices: a case study (2007)
This paper analyses the technical and Allocative Efficiency (AE) of tax offices, that is, the offices which deal with declarations, assessments, collection and disputed tax demands of individuals and...
Technical and allocative efficiency of tax offices: a case study (2007)
This paper analyses the technical and Allocative Efficiency (AE) of tax offices, that is, the offices which deal with declarations, assessments, collection and disputed tax demands of individuals and...
Evaluating sport events at European level: the Euro 2004 (2006)
In this paper, we estimate the willingness to pay for a sporting event: the Euro 2004 Soccer Championships that will take place in Portugal in June/July 2004. The estimation is carried out by means...
Evaluating sport events at European level: the Euro 2004 (2006)
In this paper, we estimate the willingness to pay for a sporting event: the Euro 2004 Soccer Championships that will take place in Portugal in June/July 2004. The estimation is carried out by means...
Productivity Growth in the Lisbon Police Force
This paper estimates total productivity change with regard to the Lisbon Police Force and decomposes it into technically efficient change and technological change with data envelopment analysis...
Earnings and Schooling of Cooperative Managers
This paper estimates econometrically the economic return on schooling among Portuguese cooperative managers, based on a survey carried out in 1999. The main findings indicate that the rate of return...
Earnings, Schooling and Social Capital of Cooperative Managers
This paper estimates a human capital model for co-operative managers and compares the results with the social capital model, based on a questionnaire distributed in Portugal in 2003. The study...
Sports Policy at Regional Level: Estimating the Economic Value of Amateur Sports Managers
Carlos Pestana Barros, Jaime Lucas
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The enhanced role of occupational and personal pension plans in providing retirement income raises issues concerning efficiency and performance.1 This paper evaluates the performance of Portuguese...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Stephanie Leach
This article uses an econometric frontier model to evaluate the technical efficiency of English Premier League clubs from 1998/99 to 2002/03 combining sport and financial variables. A Cobb-Douglas...
Identification of Segments of European Banks with a Latent Class Frontier Model
Carlos Pestana Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale
This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data techniques. A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of...
Low-Wage Employment in Portugal: A Mixed Logit Approach
Carlos Pestana Barros, Isabel Proença, José Cabral Vieira
In this paper, we examine the determinants of low-wage employment in Portugal. For this purpose, we use a data file of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for the years 1998 and 1999. In...
Carlos Pestana Barros, José Cabral Vieira, Nicolas Peypoch, Bernardin Solonandrasana
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and...
Incentive Regulation and Efficiency of Portuguese Port Authorities
In all European seaports, organisational efficiency forms a vital component of the activities to improve competitiveness in the market. As public enterprise entities, Portuguese seaports rely on...
Efficiency in European Seaports with DEA: Evidence from Greece and Portugal
Carlos Pestana Barros, Manolis Athanassiou
In this paper, we compare the seaport efficiency of two European countries, Greece and Portugal, using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The international benchmarking procedure is implemented, in...
Decomposing Growth in Portuguese Seaports: A Frontier Cost Approach
This paper analyses the extent of technical change and technical efficiency in Portuguese seaport costs between 1990 and 2000, using a stochastic cost frontier method. A translog frontier and the...
A Benchmark Analysis of Italian Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis
This paper uses data envelopment analysis to evaluate the performance of Italian seaports from 2002 to 2003, combining operational and financial variables. The paper evaluates how close the Italian...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Nicolas Peypoch
This paper proposes a framework for benchmarking Italian and Portuguese seaports and the rationalisation of their operational activities. The analysis is based on the Luenberger productivity...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Nazaré Barroso, Maria Rosa Borges
This paper estimates changes in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis applied to a representative...
ARE USA CITIZENS AT RISK OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE?
Carlos Pestana Barros, Isabel Proença, João Ricardo Faria, Luis Gil-Alana
This paper analyzes the determinants of the probability of US citizens being victims of terrorist attacks in European countries, taking into account uncontrolled heterogeneity of the data. The...
Efficiency in Crime Prevention: A Study of Lisbon's Police Precincts
This article analyses the technical efficiency of Lisbon's police precincts by evaluating their relative performance. It starts from the assumption that there is time-varying efficiency and uses a...
Terrorism against American citizens in Africa: Related to poverty
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Faria, Joao Ricardo, Gil-Alana, Luis A.
Analysing the determinants of performance of best and worst European banks: A mixed logit approach
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Ferreira, Candida, Williams, Jonathan
SMALL COUNTRIES AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY: PORTUGAL AS A CASE STUDY
In this paper, we analyse the dilemma confronted by a small country in relation to the consolidation taking place in the European defence industry. Assuming that Portugal must maintain its armed...
An intervention analysis of terrorism: the spanish eta case
In this paper we evaluate what terrorism policies have worked best in handling the Spanish ETA terrorism using time series data from 1968 to 2000. We consider the political, deterrence and economic...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Luis Gil-Alana
Most searchers performing unit root tests on terrorism series reject the null hypothesis of unit roots (I(1)) and conclude that terrorism is stationary (I(0)). In this paper we analyze ETA activity...
Performance evaluation of the English Premier Football League with data envelopment analysis
Carlos Pestana Barros, Stephanie Leach
This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of English Premier League football clubs from 1998/99 to 2002/03 combining sport and financial variables. The paper...
Performance of European Airports: Regulation, Ownership and Managerial Efficiency
Carlos Pestana Barros, Rui Cunha Marques
This paper analyzes regulation, ownership and unobserved managerial ability as factors affecting the performance of a representative sample of European airports by means of frontier models. The...
Technical Efficiency and Heterogeneity of Argentina Pension Funds
Carlos Pestana Barros, Gustavo Ferro, Carlos Romero
This paper examines the technical efficiency of Argentinean pension funds management companies using a random stochastic frontier model to rank the pension funds management companies, taking into...
Relevance or Irrelevance of Capital Structure
M. V. Ibrahimo, Carlos Pestana Barros
In this paper we examine the effects of asymmetric information on the nature of financial equilibrium and on the capital structure of firms. In the first model presented, the financial contracts on...
Efficiency measurement of the English football Premier League with a random frontier model
Using the random stochastic frontier model, this paper examines the technical efficiency of the English football Premier League from 1998/99 to 2003/04. The model disentangles homogenous and...
Social capital in non-profit organizations: A multi-disciplinary perspective
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Nunes, Francisco
This paper evaluates human resources of executive managers in Portuguese non-profit organizations (NPOs), blending two theories of human resources: the human capital model and the social capital...
A Note on Productivity Change in European Co-operative Banks: The Luenberger Indicator Approach
Carlos Pestana Barros, Nicolas Peypoch, Jonathan Williams
This paper proposes a framework for benchmarking European co-operative banks and the rationalization of their operational activities. The analysis is based on the Luenberger productivity indicator. A...
Coaching for Survival: The Hazards of Head Coach Careers in the German “Bundesliga”
Bernd Frick, Carlos Pestana Barros, José Passos
This article analyzes how long head coaches survive in the clubs of the first German football league (“Bundesliga”), where the dismissal of a presumably weak coach is a generally adopted...
Survival Analysis in Tourism Demand: The length of stay in Latin American destinations
Carlos Pestana Barros, Antónia Correia
This article analyses the determinants of the length of stay of Portuguese tourists taking vacations in Latin America, based on a questionnaire distributed on flights of a Portuguese charter airline,...
The Determinants of Soccer Player Substitutions: a Survival Analysis of the Spanish Soccer League
Julio Del Corral, Carlos Pestana Barros, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez
This paper analyzes the pattern of player substitutions during a soccer match, using data from the First Division (Primera División) of the Spanish National Soccer League in the 2004-2005 season. To...
A Comparative Analysis of Productivity Change in Italian and Portuguese Airports
Carlos Pestana Barros, Nicolas Peypoch
In this paper, we analyze efficiency and productivity of Italian and Portuguese airports, by using the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The key advantage of...
The Expenditure Composition Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Monetary Policy.
Carlos Pestana Barros, Pedro Leão
Leão (2005) has recently proposed a new explanation for the short run variability of the velocity of money based on the changes in the composition of the expenditure that occur along the business...
Technical Efficiency of Nigerian Insurance Companies
Carlos Pestana Barros, Echika Lemechi Obijiaku
This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of Nigerian insurance companies, from 2001 to 2005, combining operational and financial variables. The paper also analyses...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Adli Mustaffa, Ahamad Tajudin Khader
In this paper the efficiency and performance is evaluated for 22 seaports in the region of East Africa and the Middle East. The aim of our study is to compare seaports situated on the maritime trade...
Carlos Pestana Barros, Peter Dieke
This paper focuses on the choice valuation of traffic restrictions while entering Lisbon city based on individual preferences for noise, pollution and congestion. The analysis employs a questionnaire...
The Technical Efficiency of UK Airports
In this paper, the innovative random stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the technical efficiency of UK airports. These airports are ranked according to their total productivity for the...
Identification of Segments of Thermo Energy Plants with a Latent Class Model
This paper identifies different groups in a cost function framework of thermo energy plants belonging to EDP-Electricity of Portugal. In particular, we have clustered the sample - comprising data for...
Flight Delays in Spanish Airports
Carlos Pestana Barros, Ester Gutiérrez, Sebastián Lozano
This paper analyses the duration of flight delays at Spanish airports. To do so, several hazard models are adopted to take into account the delays observed. The results show that the most important...
Addiction At the Biennale of Venice
Carlos Pestana Barros, Marilena Vecco, Victor Blanco
In this paper we analyse the socio-economic characteristics (e.g. age, gender, education, nationality) associated with the probability of subscribing to an art review, among visitors of the Visual...
Productivity Drivers in Japanese Seaports
Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi
This paper analyses efficiency drivers of a representative sample of Japanese seaports by means of the two-stage procedure proposed by Simar and Wilson (2007). In the first stage, the technical...
Identification of Segments of Thermo Energy Plants with a Latent Class Model
This paper identifies different groups in a cost function framework of thermo energy plants belonging to EDP-Electricity of Portugal. In particular, we have clustered the sample - comprising data for...
Heterogeneity in Technical Efficiency of the French Urban Transport: 1995 to 2002
Carlos Pestana Barros, Jean-Pascal Guironnet, Nicolas Peypoch, William Roy
In this paper, we analyze the heterogeneity in the technical efficiency of a sample of French urban transport companies with a translog production frontier model. The model generates efficiency...
Persistence in Airline Accidents
Carlos Pestana Barros, João Ricardo Faria
This paper analyses airline accident data from 1927-2006, through fractional integration. It is shown that airline accidents are persistent and (fractionally) cointegrated with airline traffic. There...
Productivity Change of UK Airports: 2000-2005
Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi
In this paper, the two innovative nonparametric models, the Luenberger productivity model and Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indicator are used to estimate the productivity of UK...
What a quantile approach can tell us about returns to education in Europe
Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, Carlos Pestana Barros, Jose Vieira
This paper seeks to analyse the relationship between wages and education at a European level, using a quantile regression in order to be able to extend the study along the whole wage distribution....
Technical change and productivity growth in airports: A case study
This paper analyses the rate of technical progress at Portuguese airports between 1990 and 2000, using a stochastic cost frontier method. A translog frontier model is used and the maximum likelihood...
A revenue-neutral tax reform to increase demand for public transport services
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan
Transportation, energy and environmental tax reforms represent an ongoing debate in contemporary policy. The main aim of this paper is to shed some light on this debate using micro-simulation tools...
Productivity Growth and Biased Technological Change in UK Airports
Carlos Pestana Barros, William L. Weber
In this paper we estimate the total factor productivity of UK airports using a Malmquist index. Productivity change is factored into an index of efficiency change and an index of technological...
Technical Efficiency, Regulation, and Heterogeneity in Japanese Airports
Carlos Pestana Barros, Shunsuke Managi, Yuichiro Yoshida
In this paper, the random stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the technical efficiency of Japanese airports taking into regulation and heterogeneity in the variables. The airports are...
Technical efficiency of thermoelectric power plants
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Peypoch, Nicolas
This paper analyses the technical efficiency of Portuguese thermoelectric power generating plants with a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, the plants' relative technical efficiency is...
Governance and CEO pay and performance in non-profit organizations
Carlos Pestana Barros, Francisco Nunes
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the pay and performance of chief executive officers (CEOs) in Portuguese, non-profit organizations (NPOs), focusing on the role played by the...
Brazilian Football League Technical Efficiency: A Bootstrap Approach
Carlos Pestana Barros, Albert Assaf, Fabio Sá-Earp
This paper introduces a two stage bootstrapped DEA-Data Envelopment analysis model to analyze the technical efficiency of Brazilian first league football clubs, using recent input and output data...
Luis Gil-Alana, Carlos Pestana Barros
This paper deals with the analysis of inflation in Latin America across the 20th century. We use annual data from 18 countries using a methodology based on fractional integration. However, given the...
Measuring performance in defense-sector companies in a small NATO member country
In all European national defense-sector industries, organizational efficiency forms a vital component of the operations that improves competitiveness in the market. The Portuguese government...
Performance measurement in tax offices with a stochastic frontier model
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to call the attention of public entities for the econometric frontier models which allows benchmarking the tax offices accurately. In the context of the European...
Regulation, pollution and heterogeneity in Japanese steam power generation companies
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Managi, Shunsuke
In this paper, the random stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the technical efficiency of Japanese steam power generation companies taking into regulation and pollution. The companies are...
Analysing head coach dismissals in the German "Bundesliga" with a mixed logit approach
Frick, Bernd, Barros, Carlos Pestana, Prinz, Joachim
This article analyzes the dismissal of head coaches in the top tier of German professional football, the "Bundesliga". A random parameter logit model is used to analyse the characteristics that are...
Introduction to the special issue on: Understanding, quantifying and modelling the terrorist threat
Barros, Carlos Pestana, Gil-Alana, Luis, Faria, João Ricardo
Carlos Pestana Barros, Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio, Stephanie Leach
This article analyses technical efficiency of football clubs in the Spanish Football League Division 1 (Primera Liga) from the seasons 1995-1996 to 2004-2005 with an unbalanced panel data. The random...
Coaching for survival: the hazards of head coach careers in the German 'Bundesliga'
Carlos Pestana Barros, Bernd Frick, Jose Passos
This article analyses how long head coaches survive in the clubs of the first German football league ('Bundesliga'), where the dismissal of a presumably weak coach is a generally adopted procedure in...