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lead to negative effects on international competitiveness of Portugal albeit very small. According to several authors …
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The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...
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Scheme (EU ETS) and a 10% reduction in emissions from the non-ETS sectors, taking 2005 as the base year. Portugal, as an EU …-specific emissions targets by 2020. In particular, Portugal may increase GHG emissions from the non-ETS sectors by 1% compared to 2005 … the EU ETS target applies to Portugal, i.e. Portugal should reduce emissions from the ETS sectors to 21% below 2005 levels …
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This paper presents an analysis of the findings of a survey on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim is to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in PortugalSurvey data; Probit modelsThe most important conclusions are: i) changes to wages are more...
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Two theses are presented and discussed throughout the paper. First, the limits on public deficits with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) do not correspond to the imposition of restrictive fiscal policies, but instead to the abandonment of an ultimate goal of economic policy: full employment....
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the EU Climate and Energy Package. In this paper we intend to assess the role of renewable energy sources in Portugal … policies. In our policy simulations, we make use of the Hybrid Bottom-up General Equilibrium Model (HyBGEM) for Portugal – a …
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foreign stock market impacts of sovereign credit rating downgrades by Standard and Poor’s in Europe – focusing on Portugal …
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In Portugal, the public debate at regional level is typically absorbed in the discussion of asymmetries amongst the …. In fact, the design of the NUTS II in Portugal splits the country horizontally, forgetting the vertical gap that …
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Traditional specifications of export equations incorporate foreign demand as a demand pull factor and the real exchange rate as a relative price variable. However, such standard export equations have failed to explain the export performance of euro area countries during the crisis period. In...
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promoting efficiency and equity is a common objective of the systems set up in many countries. In this regard, Portugal is no …
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