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How does the economy affect a religious phenomenon? a panel approach to interna...

This paper investigates the economic determinants of Catholic pilgrimages to the Shrine of Fatima using a panel data set with annual observations from 2008 to 2017 from 29 origin countries. The Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag, using the estimator of Driscoll and Kraay (1998), was employed to examine short- and long-run impacts. The results reveal that, in the short run, GDP per capita, the exchange rate an...

A importância das visitas turístico-religiosas para a economia local de Fátima ...

A cidade de Fátima é um dos principais destinos turísticos de Portugal. Anualmente milhões de pessoas visitam a pequena cidade por razões de fé. O Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima é o principal atractivo da pequena cidade, economicamente dependente do turismo nacional e internacional. Face à crise pandémica, o Santuário de Fátima pela primeira vez em décadas teve de fechar no ano de 2020, durante...

Socioeconomic Determinants of Pilgrimages: A Var Approach to the Portuguese Cas...

This study examines the phenomenon of pilgrimages to the Shrine of Fatima from the perspective of the economic sciences. Through an economic model, it seeks to establish the relationship between Catholic religious tourism and the Portuguese economic reality in the shortrun. An Autoregressive Vector model with annual data from 1994 to 2018 found endogeneity for the model. Thus, the relationships between a number...

Is religious tourism in the Shrine of Aparecida (Brazil) affected by economic a...

The act of travelling by faith is a phenomenon that has been occurring for centuries in different religions and cultures, usually motivated by faith. Over time, pilgrimages and/or visits to sacred places have become an object of academic interest. Hence, this study aims to analyse the impact of economic and climatic factors on religious tourism in the City of Aparecida (Brazil). The Ordinary Least Squares metho...

São as visitas turístico-religiosas da cidade santuário de Aparecida influencia...

How can economic factors and the search for information impact the phenomenon of Catholic religious tourism? The search for the answer to this question motivates the present investigation. The Shrine of Aparecida (in Brazil) has received in recent years more than 10 million visitors (per year). Understanding how the economy influences tourism is essential to help the recovery of Brazilian religious tourism in t...

The City of Fatima: History, Development and Economic Perspectives

The research was inspired in Glaeser (2005), that addressed the rise of New York and its continued success. The objectives of this study were defined as follows: (i) evidence the growth of the city of Fátima in population density and number of pilgrims; (ii) indicate the relationship between the population growth rate and the number of pilgrims through an econometric model based in time series; and (iii) contri...

The Effects of Government Bonds on Liquidity Risk and Bank Profitability in Cap...

To analyze the effects of government debt securities on the liquidity risk and profitability of banks in Cape Verde, this research employs an unbalanced panel dataset from 2000 to 2017 on the activity of all commercial banks operating at the end of 2017 (seven in total). The study employs models with lagged regressors, estimated by the ordinary least squares estimation method. The results show that government d...

Prevalence of the Most Frequent Neuropsychiatric Diagnoses in Hospitalized SARS...

Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 infection has been associated with the acute onset of mental and behavioural symptoms and psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of the different neuropsychiatric diagnoses in hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection assessed by Liaison Psychiatry.Material and Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in a hospital near Lisbon, Portugal....

REPUBLICAN SPEECH AND DEBATE ON THE FORMATION OF THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE IN THE TR...

The aim of this article is to discuss the intellectual trajectory of Virgílio Cardoso de Oliveira (1868-1935), focusing on the relationship between the republican discourse and the debates on the formation of the Brazilian people in the context of the First Republic, in the Amazon region. In theoretical terms, we will explore, the concept of intellectual, the notions of space of experience and horizons of expec...

The Effects of Government Bonds on Liquidity Risk and Bank Profitability in Cap...