Purpose – The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of quality certifications on apparent labour productivity in a sample of hotels in Spain. Design/methodology/approach – In line with Mairesse and Kremp (1993), the theoretical model was based on a Cobb–Douglas production...

Marchante A. J. and Ortega B. (2006) Quality of life and economic convergence across Spanish regions, 1980-2001, Regional Studies 40, 471-483. Evaluations of regional welfare conventionally rely on gross value added (GVA) per capita as an indicator of living standards. This paper attempts to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether hotels that use a revenue management system (RMS) outperform non-RMS-users in a context of decreasing demand. Design/methodology/approach A database of chain hotels with a rating of three or more stars was used to estimate MANOVA and ANOVA...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse empirically the association between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), net official development assistance (ODA) inflows and trade-related illicit financial outflows. Design/methodology/approach With this purpose, a linear model was estimated, using...