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Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Emili Tortosa-Ausina

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
32
Citations
3925
World Ranking
3475
National Ranking
45

Overview

Emili Tortosa-Ausina is a researcher affiliated with Jaume I University in Spain with a focus on economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as social sciences and business management. Their body of work encompasses several subfields including economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, accounting, finance, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered by Emili Tortosa-Ausina's research include fiscal policy and economic growth, local government finance and decentralization, fiscal policies and political economy, microfinance and financial inclusion, efficiency analysis using DEA, regional economics and spatial analysis, and banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Looking for sustainable development: Socially responsible mutual funds and the low-carbon economy (2020) published in Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors (2020) published in Cities
  • Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain (2021) published in Journal of Regional Science
  • Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils (2020) published in Regional Studies
  • Financial inclusion and exclusion across Mexican municipalities (2021) published in Regional Science Policy & Practice

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emili include María Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Diego Prior, Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá, and Paula Cruz-García, indicating active involvement in joint research efforts.

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Regional Science
  • Regional Science Policy & Practice
  • Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

This profile reflects a sustained research interest in regional economics, governance, fiscal policy, and sustainable finance, with a considerable number of publications contributing to these fields.

Best Publications

  • On the determinants of local government performance: A two-stage nonparametric approach

    Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll;Diego Prior;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Sensitivity analysis of efficiency and Malmquist productivity indices: An application to Spanish savings banks

    Emili Tortosa-Ausina;Emili Grifell-Tatjé;Carmen Armero;David V. Conesa

  • Decentralization and efficiency of local government

    Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll;Diego Prior;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • On the comparative performance of socially responsible and Islamic mutual funds

    Omneya Abdelsalam;Meryem Duygun Fethi;Juan Carlos Matallín;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Bank Cost Efficiency and Output Specification

    Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Measuring Globalization of International Trade: Theory and Evidence

    Iván Arribas;Francisco Pérez;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Energy efficiency in the European Union: What can be learned from the joint application of directional distance functions and slacks-based measures?

    Roberto Gómez-Calvet;David Conesa;Ana Rosa Gómez-Calvet;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Do ethics imply persistence? The case of Islamic and socially responsible funds

    Omneya H. Abdelsalam;Meryem Duygun;Juan Carlos Matallín-Sáez;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Nontraditional activities and bank efficiency revisited: a distributional analysis for Spanish financial institutions

    Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Growth and Convergence Profiles in the Spanish Provinces (1965–1997)*

    Emili Tortosa‐Ausina;Francisco Pérez;Matilde Mas;Francisco J. Goerlich

  • A multilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques

    Claudio Thieme;Diego Prior;Diego Prior;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities

    Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll;Diego Prior;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Exploring efficiency differences over time in the Spanish banking industry

    Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Local governments' re-election and its determinants: New evidence based on a Bayesian approach

    Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll;María Isabel Brun-Martos;Anabel Forte;Emili Tortosa-Ausina;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • On the dynamics of eco-efficiency performance in the European Union

    Roberto Gómez-Calvet;David Conesa;Ana Rosa Gómez-Calvet;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • The effects of geographic expansion on the productivity of Spanish savings banks

    Manuel Illueca;José M. Pastor;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Bank Branch Geographic Location Patterns in Spain: Some Implications for Financial Exclusion

    Luisa Alamá;Emili Tortosa‐Ausina

  • On the Determinants of Local Government Debt: Does One Size Fit All?

    Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll;Diego Prior Jiménez;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: A network data envelopment analysis approach

    Meryem Duygun;Diego Prior;Mohamed Shaban;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Does social capital matter for European regional growth

    Anabel Forte;Jesús Peiró-Palomino;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • Growth and Convergence Profiles in the Spanish Provinces (1965-1997)

    Francisco Pérez;Emili Tortosa-Ausina;Matilde Mas;Francisco J. Goerlich

  • Efficiency and market power in Spanish banking

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

  • On the sources of European regional convergence: Does social capital have an economic payoff?

    Jesús Peiró-Palomino;Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo
Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo University of Valencia
Rolf Färe
Rolf Färe Oregon State University
Shawna Grosskopf
Shawna Grosskopf Oregon State University
Joaquin Maudos
Joaquin Maudos University of Valencia

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