Purpose: The purpose of this paper, on Portugal, is to determine the economic effects of public and private capital spending on health. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use a vector autoregressive model to estimate the elasticities and marginal products of health care investments in...

This chapter examines the economic and environmental effects of the interaction between regulated early closure of coal-fired power plants and new energy taxation rules on such plants using a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Portuguese economy. Simulation results show that regulated...