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  1. Efficiency of Peruvian regional airports: Does the PPP framework make a difference?

    Article • Journal of Air Transport Management, May 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  2. Valuing welfare losses of cruise tourism in a contingent valuation framework: Not as bad as they make it out to be

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, January 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  3. Cruise passengers' perception of port attributes and their influence on revisiting and recommending. Evidence from the Canary Islands

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, June 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  4. Business Opportunities for a Ground Effect Vehicle - Case of Canary Islands

    Article • Transport and Telecommunication Journal, November 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  5. On ferry users’ willingness to pay for improving environmental quality: A case study for the Canary Islands

    Article • Transport Policy, August 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  6. Persistent and transient inefficiency in ports: An application to Spanish port authorities

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  7. Factors influencing the cruisers in recommending onshore excursions in Gran Canaria

    Article • Heliyon, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  8. Towards a Global Surveillance System for Lost Containers at Sea

    Article • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Beatriz Tovar, Dr Francisco Cabrera

  9. Meeting externalities: The effects of educational training on support for tourism activities

    Article • Tourism Economics, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  10. Residents' perceptions and attitudes towards the cruise tourism impact in gran Canaria

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, December 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  11. Environmental valuation of in-port shipping emissions per shipping sector on four Spanish ports

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, May 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  12. Are output disaggregation and energy variables key when measuring container terminal efficiency?

    Article • Maritime Policy & Management, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  13. The relationship between port-level maritime connectivity and efficiency

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  14. Regulation and Finance in the Spanish Port Sector

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  15. Peruvian Electrical Distribution Firms’ Efficiency Revisited: A Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis

    Article • Sustainability, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  16. The external costs of port activity for port cities: An environmental efficiency analysis of Spanish ports

    Article • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  17. Correction to: Efficiency drivers for the South Pacific West coast port terminals: a two-stage non-convex metafrontier dea approach

    Article • Operational Research, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  18. Estimating cruise passenger's expenditure: A censored system approach

    Article • Tourism Management Perspectives, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  19. Efficiency drivers for the South Pacific West coast port terminals: a two-stage non-convex metafrontier dea approach

    Article • Operational Research, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  20. Potential of cold-ironing for the reduction of externalities from in-port shipping emissions: The state-owned Spanish port system case

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  21. Economic and Environmental Regulation in the Port Sector

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  22. Revisiting electric utilities’ efficiency in the Southern African Power Pool, 1998–2009

    Article • Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, February 2020, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  23. Environmental efficiency for a cross-section of Spanish port authorities

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  24. Environmental cost and eco-efficiency from vessel emissions under diverse SOx regulatory frameworks: A special focus on passenger port hubs

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  25. How to fish? Key factors influencing the probability of choosing a recreational fishing modality

    Article • Fisheries Research, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  26. Are larger and more complex port more productive? An analysis of Spanish port authorities

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  27. Air emissions from ships in port: Does regulation make a difference?

    Article • Transport Policy, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  28. Explaining cruisers’ shore expenditure through a latent class tobit model: Evidence from the Canary Islands

    Article • Tourism Economics, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  29. Metafrontier analysis on productivity for West Coast of South Pacific terminals

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  30. External costs from vessel emissions at port: a review of the methodological and empirical state of the art

    Article • Transport Reviews, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  31. Specialisation, diversification, size and technical efficiency in ports: an empirical analysis using frontier techniques

    Article • European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, January 2017, Delft University of Technology

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  32. Dynamic Cost Efficiency in Port Infrastructure Using a Directional Distance Function: Accounting for the Adjustment of Quasi-Fixed Inputs Over Time

    Article • Transportation Science, June 2016, INFORMS

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  33. Environmental cost and eco-efficiency from vessel emissions in Las Palmas Port

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  34. Port-city exhaust emission model: An application to cruise and ferry operations in Las Palmas Port

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  35. Efficiency and performance in gas distribution. Evidence from Brazil

    Article • Applied Economics, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  36. Classifying Ports for Efficiency Benchmarking: A Review and a Frontier-based Clustering Approach

    Article • Transport Reviews, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  37. Container port competitiveness and connectivity: The Canary Islands main ports case

    Article • Transport Policy, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  38. Can ports increase traffic while reducing inputs? Technical efficiency of Spanish Port Authorities using a directional distance function approach

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  39. Use of the Automatic Identification System in Academic Research

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar, Dr Francisco Cabrera

  40. Drivers explaining the inefficiency of Peruvian and Chilean ports terminals

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  41. The impact of demand uncertainty on port infrastructure costs: Useful information for regulators?

    Article • Transport Policy, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  42. Efficiency and productivity changes for Peruvian and Chilean ports terminals: A parametric distance functions approach

    Article • Transport Policy, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  43. The evolution of container terminal productivity and efficiency under changing economic environments

    Article • Research in Transportation Business & Management, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  44. 10.1093/eurpub/ckl085

    Article • Transport Policy, November 2012, Elsevier

    Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, Professor Beatriz Tovar

  45. Economies of scale and scope in service firms with demand uncertainty: An application to a Spanish port

    Article • Maritime Economics & Logistics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  46. Firm size and productivity. Evidence from the electricity distribution industry in Brazil

    Article • Energy Policy, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  47. Explaining the inefficiency of electrical distribution companies: Peruvian firms

    Article • Energy Economics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  48. Technical efficiency and productivity changes in Spanish airports: A parametric distance functions approach

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  49. Are outsourcing and non-aeronautical revenues important drivers in the efficiency of Spanish airports?

    Article • Journal of Air Transport Management, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  50. Measuring efficiency and productivity change (PTF) in the Peruvian electricity distribution companies after reforms

    Article • Energy Policy, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  51. The evolution and main determinants of productivity in Brazilian electricity distribution 1998–2005: An empirical analysis

    Article • Energy Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  52. On the proper modelling of multioutput port cargo handling costs

    Article • Applied Economics, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  53. How efficient are African electricity companies? Evidence from the Southern African countries

    Article • Energy Policy, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  54. Firm and time varying technical and allocative efficiency: An application to port cargo handling firms

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2007, Elsevier

    Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, Professor Beatriz Tovar

  55. Econometric estimation of scale and scope economies within the Port Sector: a review

    Article • Maritime Policy & Management, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  56. The European Port Industry: An Analysis of its Economic Efficiency

    Article • Maritime Economics & Logistics, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  57. Multioutput analysis of cargo handling firms: An application to a Spanish port

    Article • Transportation, May 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Beatriz Tovar

  58. Sources of efficiency gains in port reform: a DEA decomposition of a Malmquist TFP index for Mexico

    Article • Utilities Policy, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Beatriz Tovar