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Tiago Jorge Lopes Afonso. Completed the Doutoramento in Economia in 2020/05 by Universidade da Beira Interior, Doutoramento in Economia in 2020/05 by Universidade de Évora and Mestrado in Economia in 2015/07 by Universidade da Beira Interior. Is Assistant Professor in Universidade da Beira Interior. Published 11 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books and 2 book(s). Organized 7 event(s). Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Economics and Business with emphasis on Economics. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Comparable genuine progress indicator; Economic growth; Sustainable development; ARDL; Non-renewable energy; Renewable energy; Strategy; ARDL bounds test; Energy-growth nexus; Estonia; Nord Pool; Sweden; ardl; bounds test; energy-growth nexus; nord pool; Ardl; Causalidade Toda-Yamamoto; Crescimento Económico; Electricidade Renovável e Não Renovável; Itália; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão; Energias renováveis - Crescimento económico; Sistemas de energia elétrica - Portugal - Espanha; Transição energética; Indicador; Children poverty and social exclusion; material deprivation; item response model,; EU-SILC; MIRT; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tiago Jorge Lopes Afonso

Citation names

  • Afonso, Tiago Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C917-D516-288D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6120-0634
Google Scholar ID
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Email addresses

  • tiago.afonso@ubi.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Economia (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Energy transition and economic growth: Evidence from countries with barriers to deversification of their electricity mix" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015
Concluded
 Economia (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"The Dynamics of the Italian electricity generation system: an empirical assessment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/02 - 2020/07 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Afonso, Tiago. Exercícios Introdutório de Análise Económica de Dados. Portugal: UBI – Universidade da Beira Interior. 2019.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Afonso, Tiago Lopes; Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto. "Energy-growth nexus and economic development: a quantile regression for panel data". In The Extended Energy-Growth Nexus, 1-25. Elsevier, 2019.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-815719-0.00001-2
Conference abstract
  1. Venal, José; Marques, António Cardoso; Afonso, Tiago Lopes. Corresponding author: Venal, José. "“Acesso à Energia nos Países em Desenvolvimento: O Papel da Geração de Eletricidade”". Paper presented in 37th International Conference on Applied Economics, Elche, 2024., Elche, 2024.
  2. Joana Madeira; Afonso, Tiago Lopes; Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Couto, Alcino. Corresponding author: Afonso, Tiago Lopes. "Quantification Of Poverty And Territorial Cohesion: An Exploratory Study". Braga, 2023.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Afonso, Tiago; Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto. "Determinants of the energy transition: Empirical evidence for OECD countries". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics, Guimarães, 2019.
  2. Afonso, Tiago; A. C. Marques; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Saldanha, Marco Mano. "The Interaction Between Electricity Generation sources and economic activity: Evidence from Estonia and Sweden". Paper presented in 30th International Congress on Applied Economics, Valência, 2017.
  3. Afonso, Tiago; Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto. "Renewable energy is causing economic growth? An empirical study upon countries with a barrier to diversify energy sources". Paper presented in 2nd International Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics, Aveiro, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso. "From carbon leakage to (re)industrialisation: An assessment of the ecological footprint of imports in developed countries". Journal of Cleaner Production (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627.
    10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144627
  2. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques; Afonso, Tiago Lopes; Isabel Vieira. "Could Private Investment in Energy Infrastructure soften the environmental impacts of Foreign Direct Investment? An assessment of developing countries". Economic Analysis and Policy 80 (2023): 961-977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030.
    10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.030
  3. Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques; Tiago Lopes Afonso. "Can Sustainable Development Induce Foreign Direct Investment? Analysis of the Complex Inward and Outward Flows of Investment in European Union Countries". Journal of the Knowledge Economy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9.
    10.1007/s13132-023-01473-9
  4. Tiago Lopes Afonso; Rafaela Vital Caetano; António Cardoso Marques. "How Can Foreign Direct Investment Trigger Green Growth? The Mediating and Moderating Role of the Energy Transition". Economies 10 8 (2022): 199-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies10080199.
    10.3390/economies10080199
  5. Caetano, Rafaela Vital; A. C. Marques; Afonso, Tiago. "A sectoral analysis of the role of Foreign Direct Investment in pollution and energy transition in OECD countries". Journal of Environmental Management 302 (2022): 114018-114018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114018.
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114018
  6. Afonso, Tiago; A. C. Marques; Fuinhas, José Alberto. Corresponding author: A. C. Marques. "Does energy efficiency and trade openness matter for energy transition? Empirical evidence for countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development". Environment, Development and Sustainability (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01228-z.
    10.1007/s10668-021-01228-z
  7. Afonso, Tiago; A. C. Marques; Fuinhas, José Alberto. Corresponding author: A. C. Marques. "Accommodating renewable energy sources in a small electricity market: An analysis considering the interactions of sources within Portugal and Spain". Heliyon 5 8 (2019): e02354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02354.
    10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02354
  8. Afonso, Tiago. "Are economic growth and sustainable development converging? Evidence from the comparable genuine progress indicator for organisation for economic co-operation and development countries". International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 9 4 (2019): 202-213.
    10.32479/ijeep.7678
  9. Afonso, Tiago; Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto. "Strategies to make renewable energy sources compatible with economic growth". Energy Strategy Reviews 18 (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/6751.
    10.1016/j.esr.2017.09.014
  10. Afonso, Tiago; Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Saldanha, Marco Mano. "Interactions between electricity generation sources and economic activity in two Nord Pool systems. Evidence from Estonia and Sweden". Applied Economics 00 00 (2017): 1-13. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036846.2017.1418074.
    10.1080/00036846.2017.1418074
  11. Marques, António Cardoso; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Afonso, Tiago. "The Dynamics of the Italian Electricity Generation System: an Empirical Assessment". WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics 12 (2015): 229-238. https://www.wseas.org/multimedia/journals/economics/2015/a4072601-211.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Afonso, Tiago Jorge Lopes. "Energy transition and economic growth: Evidence from countries with barriers to diversification of their electricity mix". PhD, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10298.
  2. Afonso, Tiago Jorge Lopes. "The Dynamics of the Italian electricity generation system: an empirical assessment". Master, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/6046.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 The role of natural capital and economic openness in sustainable economic development
Supervisor
 Economia (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/10 - 2025/04 8th APEEN Conference (2025/04/10 - 2025/04/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2024/01/31 Winter School - Economic Efficiency: Methods and Applications (2024/01/08 - 2024/01/12)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/01/08 - 2024/01/12 Economic Efficiency: Methods and Applications (2023/07/01 - 2024/01/31)
Workshop
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/10 4th Annual APEEN Conference on Energy Demand-Side Management and Electricity Markets (2019/10/17 - 2019/10/18)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/05/03 - 2018/05/03 As comunidades de Energia e a Eficiência nos Edifícios e nos Equipamentos Domésticos. (2018/02/01 - 2018/05/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/04 - 2017/07 Connected energy networks and the energy digitalization opportunities (2017/06/14 - 2017/06/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/04/30 GAPEER'17 - Gestão ativa da procura de energia - eficiência e resposta (2017/04/20 - 2017/04/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/07/18 Master thesis - Competition and Green Innovation: Is there a N-shaped relationship?
(Thesis) Arguer
 João José Cardoso Pires (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2025/07/14 Master thesis - “Leaving no One Behind”: Energy Transition and Inequality
Supervisor
 Guilherme Fonseca Pinto (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2024/11/28 Master thesis - Determinantes do financiamento interno das PMEs do setor hoteleiro ibérico
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ludmila Rafaela Zua Valentim (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2024/09 PhD thesis - Essays on electricity market price dynamics: the effects of restructuring the generation mix and energy transition policies
(Thesis) Arguer
 Daniela Pereira Macedo (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2024/07/16 Master thesis - The repercussions of corruption on green growth: Evidence from BRICS+
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rui Filipe Marques de Matos (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2024/07 PhD Thesis - Essays on Economic Growth and Socio Economic Development: An Exploration of Interrelated Factors and Policy Implications
(Thesis) Arguer
 Henrique Viana Espinosa de Oliveira (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2024/03/05 PhD thesis - Essays on the effect of globalisation on environmental performance and sustainable development
(Thesis) Arguer
 Patrícia Alexandra Hipólito Leal (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Portugal
2023/11/29 Master thesis - Análise do Efeito Diferencial dos Determinantes da Pobreza Energética Urbana e Rural: Evidência em 36 Países Africanos
(Thesis) Main arguer
 José Francisco Ngando dos Venal (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/11/29 Master thesis - Consequences of the Energy Transition on Poverty: Evidence from the Southern African Development Community
(Thesis) Arguer
 Querubim Capimolo Capamala Lucamba (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/07/12 Master thesis - Infrastructure Development in the European Union Examining the Effect of Macroeconomic, Institutional and Capital Market Drivers on Infrastructure Investment
(Thesis) Arguer
 João Pedro Gonçalves dos Santos (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/07/12 Master thesis - Extent of the Relationship Between Economic Growth and Its Determinants in Europe from 2000 - 2021
(Thesis) Arguer
 Filipa Maria Vasco Vaz (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/05/21 PhD Thesis - Essays on food consumption, economic growth and sustainable development
(Thesis) Arguer
 Daniel Francisco Bento Pais (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/03/16 Master thesis - Promoting Circular Economy in Eu: How to Enlarge the Recycling of e-Waste?
(Thesis) Arguer
 Inês Susana Patrício Silva (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09/15 PhD thesis - Essays on demand-side management policies and measures: renewables accommodation, energy poverty and pricing strategies
(Thesis) Arguer
 Diogo André dos Santos Pereira (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/07/26 Master thesis - Is Environmental Regulation Affecting the Exports of e-Waste? Evidence from European Union Countries
(Thesis) Arguer
 Leonardo Baptista de Sá Lopes (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/11/22 Master thesis - Influência das Remessas de Emigrantes sobre o Crescimento Económico dos Países Insulares Africanos no Período 2006-2019
(Thesis) Arguer
 Alex Moreno Fortes (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/10/19 Master thesis - O Impacto do Financiamento Externo no Crescimento das Pme
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria Beatriz da Silva Neto de Sousa Pinto (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/07/20 Master thesis - Teoria do Valor Uma Revisão do Fundamento a Partir da História do Pensamento Económico
(Thesis) Arguer
 Wellington Adriano (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/01/20 Master thesis - Does Waiting Times Decrease or Increase Operational Costs? Evidence from Portuguese Public Hospitals
(Thesis) Arguer
 André Emanuel dos Santos Madeira (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/07/23 Master thesis - The impact of foreign direct investment in emissions reduction targets: evidence from high- and middle-income countries
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rafaela Vital Caetano (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/07/23 Master thesis - Relationship Between Natural Gas Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence of the Largest Consumers of Natural Gas Countries
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rita Ramos Andrade Seguro Sanches (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/07/21 Master thesis - The Impacts of the Tourism Sector on the Ecoefficiency of the Latin America and Caribbean Countries: a Two-Stage Dea Approach
(Thesis) Arguer
 Daniela dos Reis Castilho (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/07/21 Master thesis - The Human Development-Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from Oil-Producing Countries
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rodrigo Filipe do Carmo Marques (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/12 - 2025/04 8th APEEN Conference
2025 - 2025 XXXIV Portuguese/Spanish Conference on Scientific Management Universidade da Beira Interior
2025 - 2025 XXXV Spanish & Portuguese Conference on Scientific Management Universidad de Salamanca
2024 - 2024 XXVI Seminário Luso-espanhol de Economia Empresarial Universidade de trás os Montes e Alto Douro
2023 - 2023 XXV Seminário Luso-espanhol de Economia Empresarial Universidade da Beira Interior
2019 - 2019 4th Annual APEEN Conference - Energy Demand Side Management and Electricity Markets Universidade da Beira Interior

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/09/01 - 2025/07/31 Master thesis - “Leaving no One Behind”: Energy Transition and Inequality Guilherme Fonseca Pinto
2022/09 - 2023/06 Graduation Project - Aferição da pobreza infantil com base no agregado familiar Joana Madeira
2021/06 - 2022/12 Master Thesis - Transmissão de volatilidade e co-movimentos entre mercados financeiros e o mercado petrolífero Eduardo Lopes Caroça
2020/09 - 2021/07 Master Thesis - The role of natural capital and economic openness in sustainable economic development Maria Margarida Monteiro Carneiro
Distinctions

Award

2018 Prémio PORDATA Inovação
Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Portugal