RELATÓRIO: Diagnóstico; Objetivos de Ordenamento e de Desenvolvimento; Modelo de Estruturação e Organização do Território; Classificação e Qualificação do Solo; Propostas Sectoriais; Contributos Interdisciplinares; Dos Objetivos às Ações; Modelo Executório e Perequativo; Custos, Financiamento e Programação; e Monitorização e Avaliação
This study aimed to analyse the impacts of the Moodle platform on Polytechnic Institute of Beja students' work and learning processes during their academic activities. To collect data questionnaires were applied to assess the perception of student users regarding seven impact dimensions of work and learning processes: productivity; innovation; performance control; student satisfaction; information quality; info...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the profitability determinants of seventeen banks operating in Portugal from 2013 to 2023. The banking market has changed significantly, particularly since 2021, when Euribor grew rapidly to control inflation target. Methodologically, a hypothetical-deductive approach was used based on panel data collected from banks' published accounts. To generate results, grouped ordin...
In this study, we assess the main determinants of banks' profitability in Portugal over the period 2015–2018. We divide the factors that can influence bank profitability into several groups: management quality, credit quality, capital adequacy, liquidity (internal bank factors), and GDP growth (an external factor). The panel dataset is composed of annual report data for the 18 major banks operating in Portugal,...
O presente estudo teve como objetivo a análise da estrutura de capital das Pequenas e Médias Empresas – PME – da região do Alentejo, no período entre 2013 e 2016, num período de saída de uma crise económica profunda. Para a concretização desse objetivo, utilizou-se como variável dependente o endividamento, subdividido em curto prazo e médio/longo prazo. Já como variáveis independentes foram assumidos outros ben...
This paper explores the relationship between municipalities debt, measured by debt per capita and different political factors, for the 308 Portuguese municipalities, from 2014 to 2018. This study adds to the scarce prior research about Portuguese municipalities’ debt and constitutes an original approach in the sense that these issues will be explored with more recent data, under the Local Finance Law (LFL) of 2...
In this study, we assess the main determinants of banks' profitability in Portugal over the period 2015–2018. We divide the factors that can influence bank profitability into several groups: management quality, credit quality, capital adequacy, liquidity (internal bank factors), and GDP growth (an external factor). The panel dataset is composed of annual report data for the 18 major banks operating in Portugal,...
The austerity policies implemented in Portugal because of the bailout agreement between the Portuguese Government and the Troika include measures to increase performance and reduce costs. An analysis of local government efficiency and an assessment of its determinants is highly relevant for policy purposes, particularly when new efforts to decentralize are being discussed. The aim of this research is to evaluat...
From the analysis of six cases – four higher education institutions(HEIs) from Portugal (Universities of Porto, Évora and Algarve; Polytechnic Institute of Beja) and two HEIs from Spain (Universities of Alcalá de Henares and Lleida) – that applied equal or comparable methods of estimation of socioeconomic impacts, we will reflect on the role that Education, in general, and, particularly, Higher Education (HE) h...
Alinhado com a estrutura binária do sistema de ensino superior em Portugal, subdividido em universidades e politécnicos, foi assumido pela tutela, em 2014, a necessidade de identificar indicadores de desempenho diferenciados, passíveis de melhor aferir o efeito e a qualidade da ação desenvolvida. Para as Instituições de Ensino Superior Politécnico (IESP) assumiu-se como necessário definir “(…) indicadores de de...