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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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The internationalization profiles of Portuguese SMEs

Oliveira, Pedro; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

Portuguese SME, constituting therefore an important tool for political action. On the basis of the literature review and the …’: Experienced Medium Low-Tech firms; Low skill, Low-Tech firms; Young High-Tech firms) based on language skills, SME business …; Highly productive firms) has as criteria the firm size, the SME export intensity and industry. The last segmentation proposal …

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MULTINATIONAL FIRMS AND HOST COUNTRY MARKET STRUCTURE: A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL LITERATURE

Forte, Rosa - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

The role of multinational firms in the world economy is widely recognized. Multinationals’ activities produce various effects in the host countries, particularly in areas such as: economic growth, technology and innovatory capacity, employment, market structure, performance and business...

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Cost inefficiency and Optimal Market Structure in Spatial Cournot Discrimination

Biscaia, Ricardo; Sarmento, Paula - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2012

This paper analyzes the location patterns of firms in Cournot spatial discrimination setting. The innovation step is that firms are allowed to have different marginal costs of the production. When analyzing the two-stage location-quantity game, we conclude that firms choose the central...

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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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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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The Shadow Economy in Portugal: An Analysis Using the MIMIC Model

Barbosa, Eduardo Augusto Soares Coelho; Pereira, Samuel … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

Portugal, and to analyze its evolution over the period between 1977 and 2011. For the econometric analysis we used the … the share of the Shadow Economy in Portugal, during the period under review, had a sharp decrease between 1997 and 2000 …

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Yardstick Competition among Portuguese Municipalities: The Case of Urban Property Tax (IMI)

Costa, José da Silva; Cravalho, Armindo - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

In this paper we gather empirical evidence on the existence of strategic interaction among Portuguese municipal executives when they set rates of property tax and in particular if we are in the presence of yardstick competition. For that purpose, we adopted the assumption of geographic...

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