The study examines the official forecasts for airline passenger numbers for the Lisbon metropolitan area. Auto-regressive and exponential smoothing models are used to develop independent forecasts for passenger numbers. The forecasts show that the government forecasts are at the top end of...

This paper analyses the cost efficiency of Italian football clubs using a stochastic frontier model. The frontier estimation confirmed that the model fits the data well with all coefficients correctly signed and in line with the theoretical requirements. Marketing and Sponsorship is taken into...

Purpose This study aims to understand the behavior of internal auditors towards quality and analyze if some organizational and individual factors influence internal audit quality. Design/methodology/approach The sample is constituted by Portuguese internal auditors, and the methodology includes...