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Dr. María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama
Business Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain

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Business Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain

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Published: 15 August 2021 in Land
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The tourism program “Pueblos Mágicos” was created in 2001 by the Mexican Secretary of Tourism (Sectur), together with its brand, with the aim of promoting tourism by preserving secular and ancestral traditions, as well as revitalizing cities and towns that make great efforts to protect and safeguard their cultural wealth. In this context, the aim of this research work is to show the current state of scientific research carried out within the context of the Magic Towns of Mexico. The work methodology is based on the bibliometric analysis of the scientific production indexed in two main international databases: Web of Science and Scopus. The application of this technique will make it possible to obtain a scientific mapping of the production (growth, researchers in the subject, production impact through the number of citations, network analysis, etc.), with the aim of observing the evolution in the generation of knowledge regarding this tourism development tool that acts as a distinctive brand for tourism in Mexico. This mapping is useful for researchers as it provides information on the research carried out so far, allowing them to identify gaps to work on in their future research work. The systematic search process identified 52 articles. The results indicate that the research carried out in this context is incipient, with few researchers addressing the subject on a continuous basis and most of them being transient researchers with a single article. Most of the research was approached from the perspective of cultural heritage, cultural resources, inherited resources, cultural tourism, public policy, local development and sustainable tourism, and sustainable development. In light of the number of articles published, all of these can be considered to be incipient lines of research.

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Martha B. Flores-Romero; Miriam E. Pérez-Romero; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Bibliometric Mapping of Research on Magic Towns of Mexico. Land 2021, 10, 852 .

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Martha B. Flores-Romero, Miriam E. Pérez-Romero, José Álvarez-García, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Bibliometric Mapping of Research on Magic Towns of Mexico. Land. 2021; 10 (8):852.

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Martha B. Flores-Romero; Miriam E. Pérez-Romero; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2021. "Bibliometric Mapping of Research on Magic Towns of Mexico." Land 10, no. 8: 852.

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Published: 31 July 2021 in Water
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The aim of this investigation was to help select design criteria that highlight customer satisfaction, and thus improve the design quality in buildings, specifically in a building of a thermal hotel. The methodology is based on applying the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) technique to listen to the voice of the customer, in addition to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which allows selection of the best design alternative. The literature shows that QFD–AHP methods have been tried in different areas of the building industry, but there are few examples of combining building design processes. In the study process, collaboration environments between stakeholders were established and the operability of the method used was tested with real actors. The matrix solutions realised in the horizontal and vertical sections of the framework of the model can be reused in different projects with different user demands. This added a modular and developable feature to the model. This study revealed that the most important customer needs, in order of importance, are “health”, “service”, “comfort”, and “functionality”. These are followed by “accessibility”, “aesthetics”, and “energy conservation”. According to the findings, QFD was shown to be an appropriate method for transferring customer (occupant) requirements to designs in the most accurate manner, given the complex structure of thermal hotel buildings.

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Fatma Kürüm Varolgüneş; Fatih Canan; María del Río-Rama; Cristiana Oliveira. Design of a Thermal Hotel Based on AHP-QFD Methodology. Water 2021, 13, 2109 .

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Fatma Kürüm Varolgüneş, Fatih Canan, María del Río-Rama, Cristiana Oliveira. Design of a Thermal Hotel Based on AHP-QFD Methodology. Water. 2021; 13 (15):2109.

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Fatma Kürüm Varolgüneş; Fatih Canan; María del Río-Rama; Cristiana Oliveira. 2021. "Design of a Thermal Hotel Based on AHP-QFD Methodology." Water 13, no. 15: 2109.

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Published: 21 July 2021 in Economic Analysis and Policy
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The Mexican government has been decreasing its participation as the main investor in the Mexican economy, but it has been increasing its current spending in the different states of the country. This behaviour has influenced the slow economic growth of Mexico in the period 1999-2019. However, the effects of these spending decisions have had a heterogeneous effect on the growth levels of Mexican states. The aim of this paper is to identify these effects by considering the impact that a federal entity generates on its neighbours (push-out effect) and the benefits it receives from its close neighbours (push-in effect) when there are spillovers of this economic growth. The methodology used to analyse the relationship between economic growth and public spending makes use of an econometric model with Spatial Autoregressive Vectors (SpVAR) to test the existing causal relationships. With the SpVAR model we can show the spatial effects of interaction between the thirty-two states that make up the Mexican geography in the period 1999-2019 and to determine spatial spreading and growth causality. The results obtained make it possible to establish that economic growth spreads from one federal entity to another over time and that public spending does not have a fundamental influence on this growth, due to the strong reduction in investment spending.

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Roldán Andrés-Rosales; Luis Quintana-Romero; Leobardo de Jesús-Almonte; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Spatial spillovers of economic growth and public spending in Mexico: Evidence from a SpVAR model, 1999–2019. Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 71, 660 -673.

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Roldán Andrés-Rosales, Luis Quintana-Romero, Leobardo de Jesús-Almonte, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Spatial spillovers of economic growth and public spending in Mexico: Evidence from a SpVAR model, 1999–2019. Economic Analysis and Policy. 2021; 71 ():660-673.

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Roldán Andrés-Rosales; Luis Quintana-Romero; Leobardo de Jesús-Almonte; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2021. "Spatial spillovers of economic growth and public spending in Mexico: Evidence from a SpVAR model, 1999–2019." Economic Analysis and Policy 71, no. : 660-673.

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Published: 23 June 2021 in Energies
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The consumption of renewable energy has become a substitute for fossil fuels to mitigate environmental degradation. However, this substitution of energy raises many questions regarding its possible impact on economic growth. In this context, this research aims to examine the long-term relationship between economic growth and financial development, non-renewable energy, renewable energy, and human capital in 16 Latin American countries. Panel data techniques during the period 1988–2018 and statistical information compiled by the World Bank and Penn Word Table databases were used. Second-generation econometric techniques (cross-sectionally augmented Dickey–Fuller (CADF) and cross-sectionally augmented IPS (CIPS) were used in the work methodology, which allow the presence of cross-sectional dependence between sections to be controlled. The main results indicate that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between financial development, non-renewable energy consumption, renewable energy consumption, human capital, and economic growth. The results show that the consumption of renewable energy does not compromise economic growth; the 1% increase in renewable energy consumption is related to the 1% increase in economic growth. The policy implications suggest some measures to ensure economic growth considering the role of green energy and human capital.

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Pablo Ponce; José Álvarez-García; Johanna Medina; María del Río-Rama. Financial Development, Clean Energy, and Human Capital: Roadmap towards Sustainable Growth in América Latina. Energies 2021, 14, 3763 .

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Pablo Ponce, José Álvarez-García, Johanna Medina, María del Río-Rama. Financial Development, Clean Energy, and Human Capital: Roadmap towards Sustainable Growth in América Latina. Energies. 2021; 14 (13):3763.

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Pablo Ponce; José Álvarez-García; Johanna Medina; María del Río-Rama. 2021. "Financial Development, Clean Energy, and Human Capital: Roadmap towards Sustainable Growth in América Latina." Energies 14, no. 13: 3763.

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Published: 02 April 2021 in Mathematics
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The aim of this research is to identify and analyze the causes and effects of tourism competitiveness, as well as cause–effect relationships from the perspective of two groups of experts, which are decision makers versus academics/researchers, both from the tourism sector. The purpose is to respond to the question: do decision makers in the tourism sector share the same perspective as academics/researchers regarding the relationship between the causes and effects of tourism competitiveness? The methodology used is the theory of expertons, the theory of forgotten effects and the Hamming distance. It was found that in most cases, the groups of experts share perspective, since their differences are small or non-existent. However, in all the relationships analyzed (cause–effect, cause–cause, and effect–effect), academic experts reported the highest assessment. The greatest difference in opinion is identified in the evaluation of the “Environmental Commitment” and “Tourist Demand” relationship. Decision makers in the tourism sector are ignoring the growing inclination and sensitivity that tourists are adopting towards the environment. It is necessary for the tourism sector to develop and consolidate its commitment to caring for and preserving the environment, which is an element that contributes to a destination’s competitiveness and has two main effects: tourism demand and customer satisfaction.

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Martha Flores-Romero; Miriam Pérez-Romero; José Álvarez-García; María del Río-Rama. Fuzzy Techniques Applied to the Analysis of the Causes and Effects of Tourism Competitiveness. Mathematics 2021, 9, 777 .

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Martha Flores-Romero, Miriam Pérez-Romero, José Álvarez-García, María del Río-Rama. Fuzzy Techniques Applied to the Analysis of the Causes and Effects of Tourism Competitiveness. Mathematics. 2021; 9 (7):777.

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Martha Flores-Romero; Miriam Pérez-Romero; José Álvarez-García; María del Río-Rama. 2021. "Fuzzy Techniques Applied to the Analysis of the Causes and Effects of Tourism Competitiveness." Mathematics 9, no. 7: 777.

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Published: 23 March 2021 in Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses
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This research seeks to ascertain the extent to which the innovative and competitive capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) companies are influenced by the service type (technological vs professional) and their respective location (rural vs urban) in times of crisis. Through recourse to structural equation models, the results demonstrate that innovative capacities are strong.

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Marta Pérez-Villalba; Antonio Sánchez-Oliver; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. Corporate Social Responsibility, Management and Solution to Unethical Environments in Sports. Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses 2021, 65 -79.

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Marta Pérez-Villalba, Antonio Sánchez-Oliver, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. Corporate Social Responsibility, Management and Solution to Unethical Environments in Sports. Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses. 2021; ():65-79.

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Marta Pérez-Villalba; Antonio Sánchez-Oliver; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. 2021. "Corporate Social Responsibility, Management and Solution to Unethical Environments in Sports." Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses , no. : 65-79.

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Published: 23 March 2021 in Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses
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The purpose of this chapter is to examine the background, regulations, main practices and initiatives, as well as the pending issues regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Ecuador. The methodology used focuses on carrying out a search and presentation of the most relevant facts and background that gave rise to the adoption of strategies and programmes by Ecuadorian companies in terms of social responsibility. In addition, it examines the international influence on the social, labour, and environmental responsibilities that the Ecuadorian business sector must fulfil. Among the main findings, it can be mentioned that the concern for the issue of corporate social responsibility in Ecuador is shared by a series of agents, international organizations, several public sector organizations, civil society associations, business associations, and universities. Although this interest is shared in a general way, by making a more detailed analysis, it can be seen that the initiatives only come from the State, with little promotion by the Decentralized Autonomous Governments (GADs) towards this issue. However, the initiative of the Municipality of Quito is worth mentioning, which is one of the 24 GADs in the territory that carries out actions aimed at motivating companies in the area to launch CSR actions. On the other hand, it is observed that in Ecuador, the subsidiaries of transnational companies are established as pioneers in social responsibility practices and processes, thus demonstrating the international influence on the local business environment. It is also noteworthy that most of the companies that make up important economic groups in the country perform or collaborate with corporate social responsibility practices. Finally, it is observed that business initiatives in this area respond to palliative and/or short-term issues of incentives, promotion, and social marketing.

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Ronny Correa-Quezada; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; Diego Fernando García-Vélez. Corporate Social Responsibility. State of the Question in Ecuador. Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses 2021, 81 -96.

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Ronny Correa-Quezada, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo, Diego Fernando García-Vélez. Corporate Social Responsibility. State of the Question in Ecuador. Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses. 2021; ():81-96.

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Ronny Correa-Quezada; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; Diego Fernando García-Vélez. 2021. "Corporate Social Responsibility. State of the Question in Ecuador." Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses , no. : 81-96.

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Published: 23 February 2021 in Forests
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Deforestation shows the constant environmental degradation that occurs worldwide as a result of the growth of economic activity and the increase in population. This research examines the causal link between renewable energy consumption, GDP, GDP2, non-renewable energy price, population growth and forest area in high, middle- and low-income countries. Based on data obtained from World Development Indicators, the autoregressive distributed lag model, with a time series, is used to examine the long-term cointegration relationship between the variables. The results justify the existence of a joint long-term relationship between the variables analysed for the middle-income countries and low-income countries. When the forest area is not at its equilibrium level, the speed of adjustment is slow (0.44% and 8.7%), which is typical of the nature of this natural resource. An increase in the consumption of renewable energy is associated with an increase between 0.04 and 0.02 square kilometres of forest cover, respectively. The research does not show evidence about the equilibrium relationship in the short term. Growth in renewable energy consumption is one of the main drivers for preserving the forest area. Therefore, those responsible for making economic policies must aim their measures towards the use of clean energy.

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Pablo Ponce; María Del Río-Rama; José Álvarez-García; Cristiana Oliveira. Forest Conservation and Renewable Energy Consumption: An ARDL Approach. Forests 2021, 12, 255 .

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Pablo Ponce, María Del Río-Rama, José Álvarez-García, Cristiana Oliveira. Forest Conservation and Renewable Energy Consumption: An ARDL Approach. Forests. 2021; 12 (2):255.

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Pablo Ponce; María Del Río-Rama; José Álvarez-García; Cristiana Oliveira. 2021. "Forest Conservation and Renewable Energy Consumption: An ARDL Approach." Forests 12, no. 2: 255.

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Published: 27 January 2021 in Mathematics
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The aim of this research is to analyse the effect of income inequality on the homicide rate. The study is carried out in 18 Latin American countries for the period 2005–2018. The methodology used is the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) model and the data were obtained from World Development Indicators, the World Health Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank. Thus, the dependent variable is the homicide rate and the independent variable is income inequality. In addition, some control variables are included, such as: poverty, urban population rate, unemployment, schooling rate, spending on security and GDP per capita, which improve the consistency of the model. The results obtained through GLS model determine that inequality has a negative and significant effect on the homicide rate for high-income countries (HIC) and lower-middle-income countries (LMIC), whereas it is positive and significant for upper-middle-income countries (UMIC). On the other hand, the control variables show different results by group of countries. In the case of unemployment, it is not significant in any group of countries. Negative spatial dependence was found regarding spatial models such as: the spatial lag (SAR) and spatial error (SEM) method. In the spatial Durbin model (SDM), positive spatial dependence between the variables was corroborated. However, spatial auto-regressive moving average (SARMA) identified no spatial dependence. Under these results it is proposed: to improve productivity, education and improve the efficiency of security-oriented resources.

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Pablo Ponce; José Álvarez-García; Mary Cumbicus; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Spatial Externalities of Income Inequality on Security in Latin America. Mathematics 2021, 9, 245 .

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Pablo Ponce, José Álvarez-García, Mary Cumbicus, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Spatial Externalities of Income Inequality on Security in Latin America. Mathematics. 2021; 9 (3):245.

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Pablo Ponce; José Álvarez-García; Mary Cumbicus; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2021. "Spatial Externalities of Income Inequality on Security in Latin America." Mathematics 9, no. 3: 245.

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Published: 15 January 2021 in Land
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The world’s cultural and natural heritage has been gradually affected by climate change, and although the research agendas of many countries have included this reality since 2003, there is still an incipient approach to it, with analysis techniques used being limited. In addition, there are very few case studies that describe in detail the adaptation processes of spaces to these new conditions. The aim of this research is to identify the scientific production related to the impact of climate change on cultural and natural heritage indexed in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), which will enable to establish maturity of the research on this subject. The methodology used for the analysis of the data obtained is bibliometric analysis; evaluative and relational measures are applied to a set of 78 articles (45 in Scopus and 33 in WoS) and to a joint base of 47 articles after deleting those articles that overlap in both databases. The result is a scientific mapping that enables observing of the evolution of knowledge generation in this field of study. The main findings show that research is incipient, with a large presence of transient authors with a single publication, the research is limited to the geographical scope of Europe and North America, neglecting many other areas, the impact which is measured by the citation of articles is very low, the relational measures corroborate that the thematic approach is new by identifying a high presence of isolated relationships among authors. The results obtained will be very useful for researchers working in this scientific area, as they can find a synthesis of scientific production in this document, allowing them to draw their own conclusions regarding the current gaps in research; constituting the starting point of their research, with the aim of filling these gaps.

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Amador Durán-Sánchez. Scientific Mapping on the Impact of Climate Change on Cultural and Natural Heritage: A Systematic Scientometric Analysis. Land 2021, 10, 76 .

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo, José Álvarez-García, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, Amador Durán-Sánchez. Scientific Mapping on the Impact of Climate Change on Cultural and Natural Heritage: A Systematic Scientometric Analysis. Land. 2021; 10 (1):76.

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Amador Durán-Sánchez. 2021. "Scientific Mapping on the Impact of Climate Change on Cultural and Natural Heritage: A Systematic Scientometric Analysis." Land 10, no. 1: 76.

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Published: 22 November 2020 in Energies
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From an empirical point of view, the liberalization of the internal energy market reduces carbon dioxide emissions, promoting a wider range of renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of the liberalization of the internal energy market on CO2 emissions, which was implemented in the European Union in 2011. The research data cover 27 countries of the European Union during the period 2004–2017 and was processed by estimating a two-way effects econometric model. The results suggest that the liberalization of the internal energy market is negatively related to CO2 emissions; the policy was effective in reducing CO2 emissions and, therefore, slowing down climate change. This result is significant at the level of the European Union, and in high-income countries since the year the policy was implemented, being different in the upper-middle-income countries, which begins to be effective after two years, which is due to the economic characteristics of the countries. The public policies to be implemented to reduce carbon dioxide emissions should focus on reducing the barriers imposed on foreign trade, which prevent efficient use of resources and providing financial and operating facilities to renewable energy providers in order to stimulate their production and consumption.

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Pablo Ponce; Cristiana Oliveira; Viviana Álvarez; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. The Liberalization of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Evidence of Its Influence on Reducing Environmental Pollution. Energies 2020, 13, 6116 .

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Pablo Ponce, Cristiana Oliveira, Viviana Álvarez, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. The Liberalization of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Evidence of Its Influence on Reducing Environmental Pollution. Energies. 2020; 13 (22):6116.

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Pablo Ponce; Cristiana Oliveira; Viviana Álvarez; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2020. "The Liberalization of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Evidence of Its Influence on Reducing Environmental Pollution." Energies 13, no. 22: 6116.

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Published: 22 October 2020 in Water
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Two of the greatest challenges that threaten sustainable development are the water supply crisis together with the control of water resources pollution. The United Nations recognises that the right to safe drinking water and sanitation is an essential right, and states are called upon to intensify their efforts to provide the entire population with affordable access to safe drinking water. However, due to population growth and climate change, water resources are under great pressure, producing millions of cubic metres of wastewater. Due to the near impossibility of increasing water supply in a natural way, the importance of wastewater management as a method has grown in recent years, which, although it is not to increase the amount of this resource, but to facilitate its successive use before its final return to the sea. The objective of this article is to carry out a bibliometric analysis regarding the production and impact of the scientific research related to wastewater management indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases. The purpose is to know key aspects such as the progression of production over the years, maturity in research, coverage of the subject, identifying the most discussed topics and therefore identifying the gaps, the most relevant authors and the core of journals through which knowledge in this area is disseminated, as well as its impact through the analysis of citations. This analysis can help future researchers in this field by providing an overview of the current literature that helps them identify new research approaches to position their own work and identify the most relevant authors in this field. Likewise, a comparison is made on coverage and overlap between the two main international databases WoS and Scopus. From the analysis of the 211 articles selected through an advanced search by terms with a time limit set in 2018, it is concluded that we are facing a very incipient field of knowledge that has aroused great interest since 2010, with about half of the articles published in the period 2012–2018. Although WoS and Scopus differ in general terms in scope and coverage policies, both systems are complementary and not exclusive. In the specific area of wastewater management, Scopus is the base that provides the best coverage taking into account the number of articles published and the number of citations received.

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Amador Durán-Sánchez; José Álvarez-García; Encarnación González-Vázquez; María De La Cruz Del Del Río-Rama. Wastewater Management: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature. Water 2020, 12, 2963 .

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Amador Durán-Sánchez, José Álvarez-García, Encarnación González-Vázquez, María De La Cruz Del Del Río-Rama. Wastewater Management: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature. Water. 2020; 12 (11):2963.

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Amador Durán-Sánchez; José Álvarez-García; Encarnación González-Vázquez; María De La Cruz Del Del Río-Rama. 2020. "Wastewater Management: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature." Water 12, no. 11: 2963.

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Published: 16 October 2020 in Mathematics
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Trained human capital is a source of incalculable resources, with an impact on the results of companies. For this reason, companies must carefully consider three aspects: empowerment with the consideration of the cognitive state of their collaborators; training and compensation; and fluidity in information sharing. Although granting empowerment to collaborators has been shown to be beneficial for organizations, its adoption has not been popularized. Therefore, it remains a construct that needs to be studied and understood, considering that it is influenced by the organizational culture of companies. In this research, the main objective was to examine the factor structure of the empowerment scale from the perspective of the owner or manager of the micro, small and medium-sized companies of Guanajuato, Mexico; using the dimensions of psychological empowerment; fluidity in information sharing; as well as training and compensation. The methodology is based on the Mathematical Economy; application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. This investigation used an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the proposed measurement scale. The sample is made up of 222 valid questionnaires. The CFA provided evidence that the model that best fits the data is a second-order model made up of two dimensions: self-efficacy and influence on the company’s results, which carry the psychological empowerment construct. These results make clear that although information is necessary to train human capital, cognitive variables are more important in the empowerment of human capital.

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María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Martha Ríos-Manríquez; José Álvarez-García; María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández. An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance Structures. Mathematics 2020, 8, 1817 .

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María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, Martha Ríos-Manríquez, José Álvarez-García, María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández. An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance Structures. Mathematics. 2020; 8 (10):1817.

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María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Martha Ríos-Manríquez; José Álvarez-García; María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández. 2020. "An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance Structures." Mathematics 8, no. 10: 1817.

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Published: 27 September 2020 in Quality & Quantity
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Digital transformation and technological advances are causing a radical change in communication structures and in the way information is consumed. With rapid development of computing and the Internet, data is generated, recorded, stored and accumulated on a large scale, making it necessary for economic sectors to act quickly in order to adapt their businesses to the online environment and thus, ensure their own survival. The application of Big Data in tourism enables to transform all this data into useful information, so that companies in the sector can define and optimize their strategies in order to increase their profits. This article performs a comparative bibliometric analysis of the presence and impact of scientific production related to Big Data within the area of tourism research indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases. The aim is to know key aspects such as its growth, correlation, citation, coverage, overlap, dispersion or concentration that will support future researchers when they start their work in this emerging field. From the analysis of the 113 articles selected between the two bases through an advanced search for terms with a time limit set in 2019, it can be concluded that this is a new field of knowledge, which has aroused great interest since 2017, publishing about two thirds of the articles during the period 2017–2019. Although WoS and Scopus differ in general terms in scope and coverage policies, both systems are complementary and not exclusive. In the specific area of Big Data and Tourism Research, Scopus is the base that provides better coverage by collecting a higher number of articles and receiving more citations.

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José Álvarez-García; Amador Durán-Sánchez; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Biagio Simonetti. Big data and tourism research: measuring research impact. Quality & Quantity 2020, 1 -22.

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José Álvarez-García, Amador Durán-Sánchez, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, Biagio Simonetti. Big data and tourism research: measuring research impact. Quality & Quantity. 2020; ():1-22.

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José Álvarez-García; Amador Durán-Sánchez; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; Biagio Simonetti. 2020. "Big data and tourism research: measuring research impact." Quality & Quantity , no. : 1-22.

Journal article
Published: 10 September 2020 in Contaduría y Administración
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El COVID-19, es un problema sanitario que vivimos en la actualidad el cual provocó que la actividad económica a nivel mundial decrezca como consecuencia del confinamiento decretado en los países. El COVID-19 se ve influenciada por factores económicos que inciden en la propagación de los contagios y varían en función de las características estructurales de los países. En este sentido, el objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es examinar el efecto de la desigualdad de ingreso y la actividad económica en los contagios del COVID-19 en el Ecuador. Luego se utilizan variables económicas, sociales y demográficas para determinar otros factores asociados al aumento de los contagios. Para cumplir con el objetivo la metodología utilizada se basa en el uso de técnicas econométricas (modelo de regresión lineal con el estimador Mínimos Cuadrados Ordinarios) con datos de corte transversal recopilados de la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, Desempleo y Subempleo (2019) y del Ministerio de Salud Pública (2020). Los resultados obtenidos muestran que el aumento de la desigualdad provoca aumentos del contagio del COVID-19, de igual manera los sectores de la actividad económica provocan un efecto heterogéneo en el COVID-19. Las medias de política deben estar orientadas a garantizar el acceso a bienes y servicios de los grupos con mayor desigualdad para disminuir los contagios del COVID-19.

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Pablo Ponce; Verónica Loaiza; María De La Cruz Del Río Rama; Leticia Bollain Parra. Efecto de la desigualdad y la actividad económica en el COVID-19 en Ecuador: un bosquejo de sus posibles determinantes económicos, sociales y demográficos. Contaduría y Administración 2020, 65, 217 .

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Pablo Ponce, Verónica Loaiza, María De La Cruz Del Río Rama, Leticia Bollain Parra. Efecto de la desigualdad y la actividad económica en el COVID-19 en Ecuador: un bosquejo de sus posibles determinantes económicos, sociales y demográficos. Contaduría y Administración. 2020; 65 (5):217.

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Pablo Ponce; Verónica Loaiza; María De La Cruz Del Río Rama; Leticia Bollain Parra. 2020. "Efecto de la desigualdad y la actividad económica en el COVID-19 en Ecuador: un bosquejo de sus posibles determinantes económicos, sociales y demográficos." Contaduría y Administración 65, no. 5: 217.

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Published: 07 August 2020 in Mathematics
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This investigation seeks to explore the importance of agglomeration mechanisms in the location decisions of new manufacturing firms in Ecuador, based on sector and canton level data for the 2000–2010 period. A model is proposed to explore the relative importance of agglomeration mechanisms in location decisions of new manufacturing companies, a regression is performed using instrumental variables, the econometric estimation is developed, and an identification strategy is proposed. The results of the empirical analysis show that the learning mechanism, and history, have a positive and significant impact on the creation of new firms. An increase of 1% in the transfer of knowledge in the industries and cantons of the country is correlated with the increase in the location of new firms in the order of 9.2%. In turn, history has a positive and significant effect on the creation of new firms, in industries and cantons characterized by a past industrial environment. Even when the learning mechanism and history are controlled by provinces, sectors, and cantons, they continue to be the most important determinants of the location of new firms. This evidence could be attributed to the public investment in Ecuadorian industry in recent years. In this sense, the contribution of this work is found in the empirical distinction of the mechanism that favors or inhibits the location decisions of new companies. The analysis was replicated for a three-digit sectorial disaggregation level, to verify whether the agglomeration mechanisms operate differently on a different industrial scale. The results suggested that there were no differences to be considered. When the analysis was done excluding the cantons of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca, given their high representation in terms of the birth of industries and employment, the results were consistent with those previously mentioned. However, it is so only with respect to history, which in this case accounts for 38.8% of the birth of firms; whereas, matching accounts for an order of 38.9% in the period of analysis. This result is explained in the context of the country’s industrial policy.

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Tania Paola Torres-Gutiérrez; Ronny Correa-Quezada; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; José Álvarez-García. Location Decisions of New Manufacturing Firms in Ecuador. Agglomeration Mechanisms. Mathematics 2020, 8, 1309 .

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Tania Paola Torres-Gutiérrez, Ronny Correa-Quezada, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama, José Álvarez-García. Location Decisions of New Manufacturing Firms in Ecuador. Agglomeration Mechanisms. Mathematics. 2020; 8 (8):1309.

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Tania Paola Torres-Gutiérrez; Ronny Correa-Quezada; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama; José Álvarez-García. 2020. "Location Decisions of New Manufacturing Firms in Ecuador. Agglomeration Mechanisms." Mathematics 8, no. 8: 1309.

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Published: 03 August 2020 in Sustainability
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The aim of this work is to identify community the initiatives anchored to community-based tourism (CBT) in Ecuador with the aim of providing an overview of the current reality of community tourism in the country, in addition to publicizing the product lines under development within community initiatives. The methodology used is a descriptive analysis based on the review of secondary sources, which reflect the reality of the different tourism initiatives related to the Plurinational Federation of Community Tourism of Ecuador (FEPTCE) at the level of continental Ecuador. FEPTCE groups indigenous, Afro–Ecuadorian, Montubian and mestizo communities, who depend on their territory and have identified tourism as a mechanism to continue living with dignity within these territories, due to the option of economic diversification that is generated. Within the communities that belong to the FEPTCE, living with dignity implies achieving a good quality of life, which is not based on satisfying a series of basic needs, but implies going further, achieving the idea of “Good Living”, that is to say, reaching an appreciation of well-being, based on the conception of the full set of what culture is, in order to generate comprehensive sustainability of its spaces. Among the main results, the distribution and coverage that the FEPTCE has within continental Ecuador regarding community tourism is shown and analyzed. As a formal network of community-based tourism, it is made up of five networks at the regional level and nine at the provincial or cantonal level, which are analyzed in this study. The consolidation of the initiatives launched has been difficult with only 83 of the initial 121 being active and only 18 registered as community tourist centers. This case study shows that in Ecuador the network approach as the first step in the development of the CBT worked. Therefore, the development of the CBT must be approached from a network approach in which indigenous peoples (indigenous, mestizo, Afro-descendant, etc.) participate, administrations, the private sector, civil society, NGOs and tourist destinations, to which they must to join academic institutions by contributing solid data obtained through research that helps tourism development.

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; María Del Río-Rama; Patricio Noboa-Viñan; José Álvarez-García. Community-Based Tourism in Ecuador: Community Ventures of the Provincial and Cantonal Networks. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6256 .

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo, María Del Río-Rama, Patricio Noboa-Viñan, José Álvarez-García. Community-Based Tourism in Ecuador: Community Ventures of the Provincial and Cantonal Networks. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):6256.

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Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo; María Del Río-Rama; Patricio Noboa-Viñan; José Álvarez-García. 2020. "Community-Based Tourism in Ecuador: Community Ventures of the Provincial and Cantonal Networks." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6256.

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Published: 30 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Poverty is one of the main indicators of economic development worldwide, in such a way that one of the Sustainable Development Goals is to eradicate poverty in all its forms worldwide. The objective of this research was to examine the effect of the gross value added (GVA) of tourism on poverty in the 198 contiguous Ecuadorian cantons. The methodology used was the application of a set of spatial econometric models to capture the regional effect of tourism on poverty. Data were obtained from the Central Bank of Ecuador and the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Under-Employment of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC). The results show that tourism activities and regional poverty are negatively related; thus, a 1% increase in tourism-related economic activity decreases the regional poverty of the canton itself by 4.31%, and that of neighboring cantons by between 0.7% and 2.4%. The inclusion of the control variables shows that schooling and the mestizo population contribute to reducing the canton’s poverty, since the regions with a high GVA of tourism have high levels of schooling and a mestizo population. Thus, regional poverty increases when the level of schooling increases in neighboring cantons. On the other hand, in cantons with a high Mestizo population, compared to the African-American population, the poverty of the canton and its neighboring regions decreases. Public policy measures which aim at reducing poverty must take into account spatial spills from tourist activity in the cantons.

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Pablo Ponce; Nathalie Aguirre-Padilla; Cristiana Oliveira; José Álvarez-García; María Del Río-Rama. The Spatial Externalities of Tourism Activities in Poverty Reduction. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6138 .

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Pablo Ponce, Nathalie Aguirre-Padilla, Cristiana Oliveira, José Álvarez-García, María Del Río-Rama. The Spatial Externalities of Tourism Activities in Poverty Reduction. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):6138.

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Pablo Ponce; Nathalie Aguirre-Padilla; Cristiana Oliveira; José Álvarez-García; María Del Río-Rama. 2020. "The Spatial Externalities of Tourism Activities in Poverty Reduction." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6138.

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Published: 27 July 2020 in Mathematics
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The aim of this research work is to analyze growth and convergence processes in the service sector and its large groups, market, and non-market services, at the regional level in Ecuador by taking the labor productivity variable as a reference. The methodology used is an analysis of distributive dynamics of the data, applying the non-parametric method of Kernel density functions from a mathematical economics approach. The results obtained show that the service sector has non-alarming levels of inequality, its trend over time is increasing. When disaggregating the data, it was observed that non-market services show a rapid growth in inequality. In contrast, market services show greater stability during the period analyzed. Regarding intra-distribution dynamics for the service sector and its subsectors, in the long term, poor regions improve, while rich regions deteriorate. However, deterioration of advanced regions is less intense in non-market services.

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Ronny Correa-Quezada; Lucía Cueva-Rodríguez; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Application of the Kernel Density Function for the Analysis of Regional Growth and Convergence in the Service Sector through Productivity. Mathematics 2020, 8, 1234 .

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Ronny Correa-Quezada, Lucía Cueva-Rodríguez, José Álvarez-García, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. Application of the Kernel Density Function for the Analysis of Regional Growth and Convergence in the Service Sector through Productivity. Mathematics. 2020; 8 (8):1234.

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Ronny Correa-Quezada; Lucía Cueva-Rodríguez; José Álvarez-García; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2020. "Application of the Kernel Density Function for the Analysis of Regional Growth and Convergence in the Service Sector through Productivity." Mathematics 8, no. 8: 1234.

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Published: 18 June 2020 in Mathematics
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In the present paper we tested the use of Markov-switching Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (MS-GARCH) models and their not generalized (MS-ARCH) version. This, for active trading decisions in the coffee, cocoa, and sugar future markets. With weekly data from 7 January 2000 to 3 April 2020, we simulated the performance that a futures’ trader would have had, had she used the next trading algorithm: To invest in the security if the probability of being in a distress regime is less or equal to 50% or to invest in the U.S. three-month Treasury bill otherwise. Our results suggest that the use of t-student Markov Switching Component ARCH Model (MS-ARCH) models is appropriate for active trading in the cocoa futures and the Gaussian MS-GARCH is appropriate for sugar. For the specific case of the coffee market, we did not find evidence in favor of the use of MS-GARCH models. This is so by the fact that the trading algorithm led to inaccurate trading signs. Our results are of potential use for futures’ position traders or portfolio managers who want a quantitative trading algorithm for active trading in these commodity futures.

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Oscar V. De La Torre-Torres; Dora Aguilasocho Montoya; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. A Two-Regime Markov-Switching GARCH Active Trading Algorithm for Coffee, Cocoa, and Sugar Futures. Mathematics 2020, 8, 1001 .

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Oscar V. De La Torre-Torres, Dora Aguilasocho Montoya, María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. A Two-Regime Markov-Switching GARCH Active Trading Algorithm for Coffee, Cocoa, and Sugar Futures. Mathematics. 2020; 8 (6):1001.

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Oscar V. De La Torre-Torres; Dora Aguilasocho Montoya; María De La Cruz Del Río-Rama. 2020. "A Two-Regime Markov-Switching GARCH Active Trading Algorithm for Coffee, Cocoa, and Sugar Futures." Mathematics 8, no. 6: 1001.