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Cuidadores Informais em Portugal: Formação ao longo da vida
Reis, Alcinda Maria Sarmento do Sacramento Costa; Afonso, Catarina; Viana, Susana; Nogueira, Helena; Godinho, Celeste; Oliveira, Rafael; Marta, RosaA obra que se apresenta, surgiu após desenvolvimento de dois cursos de formação conducentes a microcredenciali, no âmbito da capacitação de equipas de profissionais de referência que trabalham quotidianamente com cuidadores informais e também da capacitação destes mesmos cuidadores. O desenvolvimento destes cursos decorreu após identificação de necessidades de formação especificas, pela Escola Superior de Saúde...
Introduction
Madaleno, Mara; Macedo, Pedro; Moutinho, VictorEconomic efficiency has received a lot of attention throughout the years. This introductory chapter intends to introduce the topic of the book, discuss the main literature and concepts involved, and provide an overview of the content of each chapter in the book Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis. This book provides a key instrument for professors, students, academics, researchers, an...
Stochastic frontier analysis with maximum entropy estimation
Macedo, Pedro; Madaleno, Mara; Moutinho, VictorMaximum 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 to eco-efficiency analysis of European countries is used to illus...
Crossing non-parametric and parametric techniques for measuring the efficiency:...
Rita, Rui; Marques, Vitor; Bárbara, Diogo; Chaves, Inês; Macedo, Pedro; Moutinho, Victor; Pereira, MarianaBenchmarking techniques have been one of the main tools used by National Regulatory Authorities (NRA) to provide reliable information to define the efficiency targets for regulated undertakings. This paper aims to define the operational efficiency of the Portuguese mainland electricity Distribution System Operator (DSO), a monopoly incumbent with more than six million customers. Given the monopolistic nature of...
Does economic sectorial diversification affect the relationship between carbon ...
Moutinho, Victor; Madaleno, M.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 long and short-run estimations, including the Pooled Mean Grou...
Examining the long term relationships between energy commodities prices and car...
Moutinho, Victor; Oliveira, Henrique Viana Espinosa De; Mota, JorgeThe 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 Markov-Switching Autoregressive Regression, and proposed two equat...
Examining the effect of quantities offered by hydraulic, renewable, non-renewab...
Moutinho, Victor; Moreira, António; Mota, JorgeThe 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, we employ an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model-bound te...
A new composite indicator for assessing energy poverty using normalized entropy
Macedo, Pedro; Madaleno, Mara; Moutinho, VictorUsing a unique or common measure of energy poverty is very limited for the true classification of a household being in energy poverty. Thus, this study proposes a composite 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 regression models, where the two dependent variables are the gros...
A Two-Stage DEA Model to Evaluate the Technical Eco-Efficiency Indicator in the...
Moutinho, Victor; Madaleno, MaraThis 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, but as well the Sustainable Development Goals demand it. Under th...
Analysis of the New Kuznets Relationship: Considering Emissions of Carbon, Meth...
Madaleno, Mara; Moutinho, VictorDecreased 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 GHG emissions, and three more taking into account, individually...