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Financial constraints are a key determinant that hinders firms' ability to export. This paper analyses the nexus between these constraints and firms' engagement in international trade, as well as it explores the impact of the European monetary integration process upon firms' financial...
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The persistence of relative low aggregate income and productivity levels and performance in Portugal might be linked to … human capital and so the relatively low educational levels of the Portuguese workforce might have prevented Portugal from …, human capital, and aggregate productivity over the period 1970-2006 in the Portuguese economy. The evidence suggests bi …
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This paper analyses the presence of duration dependence in Portuguese local governments’ tenure employing continuous and discrete-time duration analyses over a set of spells of time in office for the period 1979-2005. Our results show that the more time a party remains in office, the higher is...
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), Portugal apresentou défices orçamentais persistentes. A combinação entre a consequente acumulação de dívida e a década de 2000 …
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indicate that the performance of the national economy is important only in legislative elections and that, in accordance with …
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perspective of the Portuguese economy in order to identify the correct (predicted) sign for the relationship in this particular … of transmission of inequality to growth in the Portuguese economy. Ideally, all the mechanisms selected should be tested …, but prior judgments should also lead us to produce a ranking of the mechanisms according to its relevance for the economy …
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The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of the gold standard period in Portugal through comparison with … other monetary systems that were operated afterwards. Portugal was the first country in Europe to join Great Britain in the … study, we can thus first look at the expansion of the functioning of the gold standard in Portugal up to 1913. In addition …
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results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. …
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In this study, we examine the pre-exiting productivity profile of mature firms relatively to survivors. We also evaluate how productivity affects the probability of exit along various dimensions. Our approach is an empirical one, and it is based on an unbalanced panel of Portuguese manufacturing...
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Pretende-se estudar a mobilidade internacional do capital e a problemática associada da sustentabilidade externa, do ponto de vista da tese de Feldstein-Horioka (F-H), e aplicar esta tese à economia portuguesa. Partindo do princípio das vantagens da mobilidade internacional do capital,...
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