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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076618
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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach
Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005
of analysis. Considering as unit of analysis the region of Beira Interior (Portugal), this article aims to provide a TOWS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118851
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Networks of Innovation Clusters in Cova da Beira (Portugal)
Leitao, Joao; Osorio, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005
This article proposes a normative model for the cluster articulation in Cova da Beira (Portugal), based on network … functioning which accomplishes the general purposes of the National Integrated Programme to the Support for Innovation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561423