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The impact of class absenteeism on undergraduates’ academic performance: evidence from an elite Economics school in Portugal

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …

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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset. We identify the transition of over 200,000 nascent business-owners and follow their survival patterns in the respective businesses using discrete time competing...

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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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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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How the gold standard functioned in Portugal: an analysis of some macroeconomic aspects

Duarte, António Portugal; Andrade, João Sousa - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the Gold Standard in Portugal. It was the first country in Europe to join Great Britain in 1854. The … are appropriate for the Gold Standard in Portugal. …

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Esboço da quantificação da fraude em Portugal

Pimenta, Carlos - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto; OBEGEF - … - 2009

fraud in Portugal. However it is a social imperative and it is technically possible to get values which a low probability of …

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Economia não registada em Portugal

Afonso, Óscar; Gonçalves, Nuno - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto; OBEGEF - … - 2009

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the volume of the Non-Observed Economy (ENR) in Portugal, by … cial GDP in Portugal has evolved since the 19%, in 1977, up to 23%, in 2008. In particular, it is observed that after the … ENR in Portugal tends to positively affect the growth of the official economy. …

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O papel do sector empresarial no combate à corrupção: algumas considerações em torno do caso Português

Branco, Manuel Castelo; Sousa, Luís de - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto; OBEGEF - … - 2012

This article is about the role of the business sector in the fight against corruption in Portugal. By corruption it is …

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Crossing Mountains: The Effect of Competition on the Laffer Curve

Abreu, Hugo Miguel de Oliveira Cruz Pinto de; Brandão, … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Regarding states and state-like entities as producers and taxation as a price, this paper connects the thoroughly studied impacts of the market structures in microeconomics to the controversial Laffer curve, suggesting that the outcome of the “taxation market” depends also on competition. By...

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