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In search of excellence - Innovation contests to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Portugal

Carvalho, Adão - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2009

businesses; an increasing trend in the number of innovation contests launched annually in Portugal; high rates of rotation of the …Numerous initiatives of different nature have taken place in Portugal over the recent years aiming at raising … consciousness of the importance and advantages of innovation and entrepreneurship, persuading businesspeople to place innovation as …

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004

This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...

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International Competitiveness: is the reduction of wages a solution? An evaluation of the Portuguese case

Vaz, Elsa; Fontoura, Maria Paula - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to analyse, for the case of Portugal, the effectiveness of wage reduction - a current …

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Decomposition analysis for energy-related CO2 emissions intensity over 1996-2009 in Portuguese Industrial Sectors

Alves, Margarida R.; Moutinho, Victor - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013

Is this paper, we used the 'complete decomposition' technique to examine CO2 emissions intensity and its components considering 16 industrial sectors over 1996-2009 period. In addition, we have implemented the forecast error variance decomposition applied to the factors in which emissions...

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: Political Business Cycles with Local Governments

Baleiras, Rui Nuno; Costa, José da Silva - EconWPA - 2003

Most opportunistic-type models of political business cycles tend to posit a given objective for incumbents: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy cycle: the incumbent’s concern with her own welfare in...

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Housing and Labor Market Connections: the Portuguese Case

Carvalho, Pedro Guedes - EconWPA - 2002

European housing systems - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece Œ under the assumption that they had a different path other than …

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A Regional Human Development Index for Portugal

Silva, Rita; Lopes, Alexandra Ferreira - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

In a report from 2008 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development came to the conclusion that Portugal is … development index for Portugal at the NUTS III level, based on the methodology of the Human Development Index (HDI) from the …

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