This article develops the renewable energy and sustainable development theme, a topic that is much and much important since the problems that face the fossil fuels related to reserves exhaustions, the high price of new explora¬tions and exploitations, the pollution levels and their impact on...

This paper investigates interdependencies and linkages between international stock markets in the short-run. Thus, twelve European and non-European markets were selected, and the period from 4. October 1999 to 30 June 2011 was chosen, which includes the Dot-Com crisis and the recent Global...

This paper aims to highlight the importance of tourism to strengthen the capacities of the different regions and their resources. With this goal in mind an empirical study was conducted in a tourist destination located in the inner part of Portugal (Beira Interior), which aimed to measure the...

O comportamento do sistema bancário é um factor determinante na eficácia do canal do crédito e pode igualmente ser caracterizado pelas relações de longo prazo, que a política monetária induz na composição do seu portafólio. Para testar estas relações partiu-se dos agregados dos...

The goal of this article is to review the existing literature on crude oil price forecasting. We categorized the existing forecasting techniques into the two main groups of quantitative and qualitative methods; and then we performed an almost comprehensive survey on the available literature with...