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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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Empreendedorismo político local em Portugal. Uma análise exploratória

Silva, Carina; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

O artigo identifica as actividades empreendedoras e os municípios empreendedores em Portugal. Cerca de metade dos …

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Organizational Characteristics and Performance of Export Promotion Agencies: Portugal and Ireland compared

Ferreira, Maria Inês Veloso; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal (AICEP) emerges as an organization without any clear component of intentionality, being …

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Determinants of the economic performance of Portuguese Academic Spin-offs: do Science & Technology infrastructures and support matter?

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

Academic and political interest in Academic Spin-offs (ASOs) has increased significantly in Portugal in the last few …, technology and innovation in Portugal in the last decade, although undoubtedly necessary, has not yet materialized sufficiently …

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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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Household Sorting and Politics: Empirical Evidence for the Metropolitan Area of Porto (Portugal)

Costa, José da Silva; Fernandes, Ruben; Natálio, Ana - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Sorting and heterogeneity of households at metropolitan level has been a subject of many empirical studies. Interest in the subject goes beyond the knowledge of household mobility because it also has importance for the debate on the Tiebout’s hypothesis that households “vote with the feet”...

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