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Axioms

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one the most successful techniques in the field of Operations ... more Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one the most successful techniques in the field of Operations Research. DEA is a non-parametric and objective approach for evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units. The original DEA proposal contemplated the total freedom of variation of weights. This free variation may lead to situations with non-realistic weights and to the impossibility of incorporating the judgments of decision-makers. This work studies the links between multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and DEA by introducing weight restrictions in a DEA model using a methodology developed to obtain criteria weights in a MCDA context: the so-called Revised Simos’ Procedure. The presented approach is suitable to be applied in the field of economics and management, being an intuitive and simple enough method for decision-makers who are not familiar with working with DEA models or multicriteria decision analysis. A classic example is presented, where the results f...

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021

The objective of this research is to identify to what extent volumes, components, time slots, and... more The objective of this research is to identify to what extent volumes, components, time slots, and publication topics improve customer engagement with Spanish automotive brands through social networks. The study considers thirteen brands and the total number of publications created by them in 2020 (23,670 publications) on the social network Twitter. Applying machine learning algorithms followed by multiple linear regression techniques, the authors examine how the variables previously mentioned affect a customer engagement indicator developed for this purpose. The results reveal that while publication components (links, mentions, and hashtags) and the publication time slot do not affect customer engagement, the volume of retweets made by the brand and publications on customer experience topics (without a direct commercial purpose) significantly improve the customer engagement indicator. The authors conclude that customer engagement in social networks can only be improved by conducting...

El impulso a la creacion de empresas desde las universidades se enmarca en el amplio abanico de m... more El impulso a la creacion de empresas desde las universidades se enmarca en el amplio abanico de medidas tomadas desde las instituciones y administraciones publicas para el fomento del emprendimiento, cuyo objetivo final es impulsar el desarrollo economico y social. El espiritu emprendedor de la juventud espanola necesita de apoyo institucional, siendo los viveros de empresas, y especialmente aquellos vinculados a las universidades, una de las iniciativas mas eficientes al respecto.

Applied Sciences, 2020

The objective of this work is to detect the variables that allow organizations to manage their so... more The objective of this work is to detect the variables that allow organizations to manage their social network services efficiently. The study, applying machine learning algorithms and multiple linear regressions, reveals which aspects of published content increase the recognition of publications through retweets and favorites. The authors examine (I) the characteristics of the content (publication volumes, publication components, and publication moments) and (II) the message of the content (publication topics). The research considers 21,771 publications and thirty-nine variables. The results show that the recognition obtained through retweets and favorites is conditioned both by the characteristics of the content and by the message of the content. The recognition through retweets improves when the organization uses links, hashtags, and topics related to gender equality, whereas the recognition through favorites increases when the organization uses original tweets, publications betwe...

Sustainability, 2019

This study breaks away from the immobility experienced by quality control systems in higher educa... more This study breaks away from the immobility experienced by quality control systems in higher education. The authors, following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on quality education set by the United Nations, propose a questionnaire delivery system through mobile messaging services that overcomes the problem of the low response rates of students for these surveys. The research follows an experimental design, is developed over three years, and involves 811 subjects who are distributed in two groups: an experimental group, in which the questionnaires are delivered through mobile messaging services, and a control group. The researchers examine the existence of differences in response rates through a descriptive comparative exploration between the two groups, also applying the Student’s t-test to evaluate the significance of the findings. The results reveal that the rates for the experimental group are not only higher than those achieved for the control group but are also signific...

REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 2019

El objetivo del estudio es revelar en qué medida los universitarios leen las encuestas de evaluac... more El objetivo del estudio es revelar en qué medida los universitarios leen las encuestas de evaluación del profesorado cuando se aplican incentivos por participación. Se desarrolla un estudio de carácter cuantitativo, en el que, se adopta una metodología de tipo experimental con dos grupos. El primero realiza la valoración de su docente en un escenario libre de incentivos, el segundo completa la encuesta en un escenario de participación incentivada. El estudio considera además dos tipologías de cuestionario: por un lado, escalas de Likert y, por otro, escalas con episodios de comportamiento BARS. La investigación emplea análisis descriptivos, pruebas t-Student y análisis de correlaciones de Pearson. Los resultados revelan diferencias en el tiempo invertido cuando la participación es incentivada. Se concluye que los instrumentos con escalas de Likert no parecen favorecer una óptima lectura y cumplimentación de la encuesta cuando la evaluación introduce recompensas. Esta situación puede ser mejorada empleando cuestionarios BARS. El presente estudio arroja luz sobre un problema prácticamente ignorado por investigaciones previas, sino que, además, aborda el mismo proponiendo alternativas de mejora.

El Trimestre Económico, 2013

El presente artículo analiza el debate en torno de la efectividad y las repercusiones de los impu... more El presente artículo analiza el debate en torno de la efectividad y las repercusiones de los impuestos a las transacciones financieras (ITF). A pesar de su uso habitual en varios países del G-20, quedan sin explicar muchos aspectos relacionados con su efecto en la estabilidad de los mercados financieros. Así, aunque la bibliografía académica suele coincidir en los efectos adversos de los ITF en el volumen de operaciones y el valor de los activos, no ocurre lo mismo en relación con sus repercusiones en la volatilidad de los precios a corto y a largo plazos, el proceso de descubrimiento de precios y la eficiencia informativa de los mercados.

Revista Barataria, 2008

El presente trabajo pretende abordar una revisión sucinta de los acontecimientos más significativ... more El presente trabajo pretende abordar una revisión sucinta de los acontecimientos más significativos del proceso histórico que ha determinado la estructura institucional para la seguridad en Europa desde la Paz de Westfalia. Europa es la región del mundo con mayor nivel de coordinación y cooperación multilateral. La idiosincrasia y el espíritu de cooperación de los pueblos europeos son fruto de la evolución histórica común y del convencimiento general de que un marco institucional estable garante de la seguridad, junto con la cooperación económica y política, son el mejor baluarte del Estado de bienestar y de la prosperidad de Europa.

Investigación Económica, 2013

Technologies for Value Creation

To analyze the efficiency, the authors choose a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach applied ... more To analyze the efficiency, the authors choose a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach applied to the principal components of the set of inputs and outputs separately and they introduce a new stage at the end of the process to study the robustness of the efficient branches. This study of the robustness adds the fact of not applying DEA to the original inputs and outputs, but to the principal components of these two sets separately.

ECMS 2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski, J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho, 2011

Internet is a key technological change which has significant economic effects. This paper tries t... more Internet is a key technological change which has significant economic effects. This paper tries to study the diffusion processes of Internet users in the African continent, the region of the world with a wider technological gap. In this sense, the main objective of the present research is to predict, ceteris paribus, the maximum level of Internet users in the African continent, in order to help policy makers and firms to adopt the correct policies. Firstly, it is analyzed whether Internet follows in Africa the usual S-shaped diffusion curve which characterizes the adoption processes of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). Once we confirm that the diffusion of the Internet in Africa follows an S-shaped diffusion curve, we introduce the historical data of this indicator (published by the International Telecommunication Union in its 2010 World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database) in SPSS, running a logistic function with three parameters. This funtion is explained in the article by using MATLAB.

ECMS 2009 Proceedings edited by J. Otamendi, A. Bargiela, J. L. Montes, L. M. Doncel Pedrera, 2009

RUE. Revista …, 2009

Europa a lo largo de los siglos ha desarrollado un complejo entramado de instituciones garantes d... more Europa a lo largo de los siglos ha desarrollado un complejo entramado de instituciones garantes de la seguridad. Este artículo estudia la evolución histórica que ha determinado la estructura institucional para la seguridad en Europa y analiza los complejos mecanismos ...

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Mathematics

The aim of this research is to help public transport managers to make decisions on the type of bu... more The aim of this research is to help public transport managers to make decisions on the type of buses that should compose their public transport fleet, taking into account economic, environmental and social criteria from the point of view of sustainability. This paper fills a knowledge gap by including the social dimension of sustainability in addition to the economic and environmental dimensions. The original nature of this study lies in analyzing complementarities in the structuring of an efficiency and multicriteria problem. Our research analyzes Madrid public bus system data; the problem is structured in a comparative way between two analytical methods, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and an ELimination Et Choice Translating REality (ELECTRE) III. Our research results show that two main groups of vehicles could play a part in part the theoretical solution. The main conclusions of this research are that (a) plug-in and induction electric vehicles are not comparable to GNC and di...

Applied Sciences

Air pollution resulting from massive urban development and increased use of private vehicles is a... more Air pollution resulting from massive urban development and increased use of private vehicles is a major environmental concern, with particular relevance in urban areas. Urban public road transport has a significant impact on shaping land use patterns, air pollution and welfare. It must therefore be efficient in terms of air pollution in order to contribute to sustainable metropolitan mobility and economic growth. This study proposes a novel and consistent data envelopment analysis, aiming to identify which urban public transport vehicle is the most efficient in terms of air pollution and therefore environmentally suitable for use in public road transport systems. The case of Madrid has been analyzed, as it is representative of other large cities, which have similar bus alternatives and the common objective of reducing air pollution. Madrid City Council data has been compiled by authors and assessed by a panel of twenty experts to determine the model criteria weights. The results sho...

Investigacion Economica, 2013

The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent global economic recession have sparked renewed inte... more The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent global economic recession have sparked renewed interest in the Austrian business cycle theory. Although for methodological reasons we have found few econometric studies that analyze this theory, in recent years several works have been published to illustrate very relevant aspects of it. The main objective of this article, after reviewing econometric literature on the Austrian cycle, is therefore to analyze the performance of the U.S. economy between 1988 and 2010 in light of the contributions of the endogenous monetary cycle theory.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, ... more BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. • European Business. Mercado et al, Pearson Education, 4. ed. Essex. 2001. • European Business: Policy Challenges for the New Commercial Environment. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, Ed. Routledge. 1999. • “EU integration seen through statistics”. European Commission Report, 2006. • “Steps towards a deeper economic integration: the Internal Market in the 21st century”. European Commission. 2007. http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication784_en.pdf • Understanding the European Union. John McCormick, Palgrave MacMillan, Third Edition, 2005. • Doing Business In The European Union. Paul Gibbs, Hind Pocket Books Pvt Ltd, 1994.

Urban public transport systems must be economically efficient and additionally environmentally su... more Urban public transport systems must be economically efficient and additionally environmentally sustainable. Available decision support systems, including multiple criteria decision models, allow identifying which urban public transport vehicles are acceptable and those that should no longer be used in efficient and environmentally friendly cities. Previous research has ranked urban public transport vehicles by applying analytic hierarchy process multi-criteria decision-making models, from economic and non-polluting perspectives. However, until now, the types of vehicles acceptable for fleet renewal have not been identified. This study proposes a consistent combination of the ELECTRE TRI multiple criteria decision sorting method and the DELPHI procedure, the objective of which is to identify which urban public transport vehicles are acceptable, taking into consideration a suggested sustainable threshold, which includes economic and environmental strict requirements. The proposed mode...

Axioms

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one the most successful techniques in the field of Operations ... more Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one the most successful techniques in the field of Operations Research. DEA is a non-parametric and objective approach for evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units. The original DEA proposal contemplated the total freedom of variation of weights. This free variation may lead to situations with non-realistic weights and to the impossibility of incorporating the judgments of decision-makers. This work studies the links between multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and DEA by introducing weight restrictions in a DEA model using a methodology developed to obtain criteria weights in a MCDA context: the so-called Revised Simos’ Procedure. The presented approach is suitable to be applied in the field of economics and management, being an intuitive and simple enough method for decision-makers who are not familiar with working with DEA models or multicriteria decision analysis. A classic example is presented, where the results f...

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021

The objective of this research is to identify to what extent volumes, components, time slots, and... more The objective of this research is to identify to what extent volumes, components, time slots, and publication topics improve customer engagement with Spanish automotive brands through social networks. The study considers thirteen brands and the total number of publications created by them in 2020 (23,670 publications) on the social network Twitter. Applying machine learning algorithms followed by multiple linear regression techniques, the authors examine how the variables previously mentioned affect a customer engagement indicator developed for this purpose. The results reveal that while publication components (links, mentions, and hashtags) and the publication time slot do not affect customer engagement, the volume of retweets made by the brand and publications on customer experience topics (without a direct commercial purpose) significantly improve the customer engagement indicator. The authors conclude that customer engagement in social networks can only be improved by conducting...

El impulso a la creacion de empresas desde las universidades se enmarca en el amplio abanico de m... more El impulso a la creacion de empresas desde las universidades se enmarca en el amplio abanico de medidas tomadas desde las instituciones y administraciones publicas para el fomento del emprendimiento, cuyo objetivo final es impulsar el desarrollo economico y social. El espiritu emprendedor de la juventud espanola necesita de apoyo institucional, siendo los viveros de empresas, y especialmente aquellos vinculados a las universidades, una de las iniciativas mas eficientes al respecto.

Applied Sciences, 2020

The objective of this work is to detect the variables that allow organizations to manage their so... more The objective of this work is to detect the variables that allow organizations to manage their social network services efficiently. The study, applying machine learning algorithms and multiple linear regressions, reveals which aspects of published content increase the recognition of publications through retweets and favorites. The authors examine (I) the characteristics of the content (publication volumes, publication components, and publication moments) and (II) the message of the content (publication topics). The research considers 21,771 publications and thirty-nine variables. The results show that the recognition obtained through retweets and favorites is conditioned both by the characteristics of the content and by the message of the content. The recognition through retweets improves when the organization uses links, hashtags, and topics related to gender equality, whereas the recognition through favorites increases when the organization uses original tweets, publications betwe...

Sustainability, 2019

This study breaks away from the immobility experienced by quality control systems in higher educa... more This study breaks away from the immobility experienced by quality control systems in higher education. The authors, following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on quality education set by the United Nations, propose a questionnaire delivery system through mobile messaging services that overcomes the problem of the low response rates of students for these surveys. The research follows an experimental design, is developed over three years, and involves 811 subjects who are distributed in two groups: an experimental group, in which the questionnaires are delivered through mobile messaging services, and a control group. The researchers examine the existence of differences in response rates through a descriptive comparative exploration between the two groups, also applying the Student’s t-test to evaluate the significance of the findings. The results reveal that the rates for the experimental group are not only higher than those achieved for the control group but are also signific...

REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 2019

El objetivo del estudio es revelar en qué medida los universitarios leen las encuestas de evaluac... more El objetivo del estudio es revelar en qué medida los universitarios leen las encuestas de evaluación del profesorado cuando se aplican incentivos por participación. Se desarrolla un estudio de carácter cuantitativo, en el que, se adopta una metodología de tipo experimental con dos grupos. El primero realiza la valoración de su docente en un escenario libre de incentivos, el segundo completa la encuesta en un escenario de participación incentivada. El estudio considera además dos tipologías de cuestionario: por un lado, escalas de Likert y, por otro, escalas con episodios de comportamiento BARS. La investigación emplea análisis descriptivos, pruebas t-Student y análisis de correlaciones de Pearson. Los resultados revelan diferencias en el tiempo invertido cuando la participación es incentivada. Se concluye que los instrumentos con escalas de Likert no parecen favorecer una óptima lectura y cumplimentación de la encuesta cuando la evaluación introduce recompensas. Esta situación puede ser mejorada empleando cuestionarios BARS. El presente estudio arroja luz sobre un problema prácticamente ignorado por investigaciones previas, sino que, además, aborda el mismo proponiendo alternativas de mejora.

El Trimestre Económico, 2013

El presente artículo analiza el debate en torno de la efectividad y las repercusiones de los impu... more El presente artículo analiza el debate en torno de la efectividad y las repercusiones de los impuestos a las transacciones financieras (ITF). A pesar de su uso habitual en varios países del G-20, quedan sin explicar muchos aspectos relacionados con su efecto en la estabilidad de los mercados financieros. Así, aunque la bibliografía académica suele coincidir en los efectos adversos de los ITF en el volumen de operaciones y el valor de los activos, no ocurre lo mismo en relación con sus repercusiones en la volatilidad de los precios a corto y a largo plazos, el proceso de descubrimiento de precios y la eficiencia informativa de los mercados.

Revista Barataria, 2008

El presente trabajo pretende abordar una revisión sucinta de los acontecimientos más significativ... more El presente trabajo pretende abordar una revisión sucinta de los acontecimientos más significativos del proceso histórico que ha determinado la estructura institucional para la seguridad en Europa desde la Paz de Westfalia. Europa es la región del mundo con mayor nivel de coordinación y cooperación multilateral. La idiosincrasia y el espíritu de cooperación de los pueblos europeos son fruto de la evolución histórica común y del convencimiento general de que un marco institucional estable garante de la seguridad, junto con la cooperación económica y política, son el mejor baluarte del Estado de bienestar y de la prosperidad de Europa.

Investigación Económica, 2013

Technologies for Value Creation

To analyze the efficiency, the authors choose a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach applied ... more To analyze the efficiency, the authors choose a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) approach applied to the principal components of the set of inputs and outputs separately and they introduce a new stage at the end of the process to study the robustness of the efficient branches. This study of the robustness adds the fact of not applying DEA to the original inputs and outputs, but to the principal components of these two sets separately.

ECMS 2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski, J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho, 2011

Internet is a key technological change which has significant economic effects. This paper tries t... more Internet is a key technological change which has significant economic effects. This paper tries to study the diffusion processes of Internet users in the African continent, the region of the world with a wider technological gap. In this sense, the main objective of the present research is to predict, ceteris paribus, the maximum level of Internet users in the African continent, in order to help policy makers and firms to adopt the correct policies. Firstly, it is analyzed whether Internet follows in Africa the usual S-shaped diffusion curve which characterizes the adoption processes of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). Once we confirm that the diffusion of the Internet in Africa follows an S-shaped diffusion curve, we introduce the historical data of this indicator (published by the International Telecommunication Union in its 2010 World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database) in SPSS, running a logistic function with three parameters. This funtion is explained in the article by using MATLAB.

ECMS 2009 Proceedings edited by J. Otamendi, A. Bargiela, J. L. Montes, L. M. Doncel Pedrera, 2009

RUE. Revista …, 2009

Europa a lo largo de los siglos ha desarrollado un complejo entramado de instituciones garantes d... more Europa a lo largo de los siglos ha desarrollado un complejo entramado de instituciones garantes de la seguridad. Este artículo estudia la evolución histórica que ha determinado la estructura institucional para la seguridad en Europa y analiza los complejos mecanismos ...

spanisheconomy.weebly.com

Page 1. - 1 - DETERMINANTS OF THE INTERNET USE IN AFRICA Miguel Ángel Alonso Neira Rey Juan Carlo... more Page 1. - 1 - DETERMINANTS OF THE INTERNET USE IN AFRICA Miguel Ángel Alonso Neira Rey Juan Carlos University Madrid / Spain miguelangel.alonso@urjc.es Francisco José Blanco Jiménez Rey Juan Carlos University Madrid / Spain francisco.blanco@urjc.es ...

Mathematics

The aim of this research is to help public transport managers to make decisions on the type of bu... more The aim of this research is to help public transport managers to make decisions on the type of buses that should compose their public transport fleet, taking into account economic, environmental and social criteria from the point of view of sustainability. This paper fills a knowledge gap by including the social dimension of sustainability in addition to the economic and environmental dimensions. The original nature of this study lies in analyzing complementarities in the structuring of an efficiency and multicriteria problem. Our research analyzes Madrid public bus system data; the problem is structured in a comparative way between two analytical methods, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and an ELimination Et Choice Translating REality (ELECTRE) III. Our research results show that two main groups of vehicles could play a part in part the theoretical solution. The main conclusions of this research are that (a) plug-in and induction electric vehicles are not comparable to GNC and di...

Applied Sciences

Air pollution resulting from massive urban development and increased use of private vehicles is a... more Air pollution resulting from massive urban development and increased use of private vehicles is a major environmental concern, with particular relevance in urban areas. Urban public road transport has a significant impact on shaping land use patterns, air pollution and welfare. It must therefore be efficient in terms of air pollution in order to contribute to sustainable metropolitan mobility and economic growth. This study proposes a novel and consistent data envelopment analysis, aiming to identify which urban public transport vehicle is the most efficient in terms of air pollution and therefore environmentally suitable for use in public road transport systems. The case of Madrid has been analyzed, as it is representative of other large cities, which have similar bus alternatives and the common objective of reducing air pollution. Madrid City Council data has been compiled by authors and assessed by a panel of twenty experts to determine the model criteria weights. The results sho...

Investigacion Economica, 2013

The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent global economic recession have sparked renewed inte... more The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent global economic recession have sparked renewed interest in the Austrian business cycle theory. Although for methodological reasons we have found few econometric studies that analyze this theory, in recent years several works have been published to illustrate very relevant aspects of it. The main objective of this article, after reviewing econometric literature on the Austrian cycle, is therefore to analyze the performance of the U.S. economy between 1988 and 2010 in light of the contributions of the endogenous monetary cycle theory.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, ... more BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Strategy and Policy for Trans-European Networks. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. • European Business. Mercado et al, Pearson Education, 4. ed. Essex. 2001. • European Business: Policy Challenges for the New Commercial Environment. Debra Johnson and Colin Turner, Ed. Routledge. 1999. • “EU integration seen through statistics”. European Commission Report, 2006. • “Steps towards a deeper economic integration: the Internal Market in the 21st century”. European Commission. 2007. http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication784_en.pdf • Understanding the European Union. John McCormick, Palgrave MacMillan, Third Edition, 2005. • Doing Business In The European Union. Paul Gibbs, Hind Pocket Books Pvt Ltd, 1994.

Urban public transport systems must be economically efficient and additionally environmentally su... more Urban public transport systems must be economically efficient and additionally environmentally sustainable. Available decision support systems, including multiple criteria decision models, allow identifying which urban public transport vehicles are acceptable and those that should no longer be used in efficient and environmentally friendly cities. Previous research has ranked urban public transport vehicles by applying analytic hierarchy process multi-criteria decision-making models, from economic and non-polluting perspectives. However, until now, the types of vehicles acceptable for fleet renewal have not been identified. This study proposes a consistent combination of the ELECTRE TRI multiple criteria decision sorting method and the DELPHI procedure, the objective of which is to identify which urban public transport vehicles are acceptable, taking into consideration a suggested sustainable threshold, which includes economic and environmental strict requirements. The proposed mode...

I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL PARA LA DIFUSIÓN DE LA ACTIVIDAD CIENTÍFICA (SNAR), 2019

La difusión de los trabajos de investigación realizados es el elemento determinante de la evoluci... more La difusión de los trabajos de investigación realizados es el elemento determinante de la evolución de la carrera docente, siendo el pilar fundamental de tal actividad la publicación en revistas científicas indexadas.

INTED 2009, 2009

The objective of this paper is double. On one hand, it intends to approach the African economy an... more The objective of this paper is double. On one hand, it intends to approach the African economy and its international institutional framework. On the other hand, it tries to analyze the influence of a set of variables on the degree of Internet penetration in the African countries. It has been carried out an econometric study comparing, at a longitudinal level, the different African countries, to determine the significance of the selected variables on the degree of development and penetration of Internet in the African economy. The methodology of the study is a fixed effects panel data model using all the available data for the period 1996-2005. This model tries to capture the common evolution of Internet use in 38 African countries. At the same time, it tries to explain the unequal (heterogeneous) evolution of telecommunications in Africa. As result of this paper, we can conclude that it is possible to talk about a double digital divide: Firstly the world digital divide, and secondly the African digital divide, explained by the importance of telecommunication infrastructures on the Internet penetration.

ECMS 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation , 2009

ECMS 25th Conference on Modelling and Simulation, 2011

XIX Congreso Internacional de Investigación Educativa - AIDIPE 2019, 2019

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2011

La Tesis Doctoral Europea tiene como objetivo realizar una modelización y predicción, a nivel glo... more La Tesis Doctoral Europea tiene como objetivo realizar una modelización y predicción, a nivel global y regional, de la evolución del indicador Usuarios de Internet de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de la ONU, así como identificar los determinantes claves en este proceso.

Tras la preceptiva revisión de la literatura, en la que se analizan las fórmulas de los modelos precedentes y se generan esquemas sintéticos del acervo científico, se han aplicado tres técnicas de análisis cuantitativo utilizando las herramientas SPSS y Gretl: modelización de la difusión sigmoidea de Internet con proyección de las series temporales, el modelo lineal generalizado y el modelo de datos de panel.

Los resultados de la investigación muestran que es posible identificar el patrón de las series, predecir su evolución e identificar qué determinantes muestran mayor influencia en diferentes áreas geográficas, permitiendo comprender el mecanismo del proceso de difusión de Internet.

En base a los resultados se aportan recomendaciones a los agentes implicados en la gobernanza de Internet y se analizan sus implicaciones sociales y económicas en el marco de los ODM.