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Financial constraints and exports: An analysis of Portuguese firms during the European monetary integration

SIlva, Filipe; Carreira, Carlos - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2011

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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Human Capital and Growth in a Services Economy: the Case of Portugal

Simões, Marta C. N.; Duarte, Adelaide - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2013

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 …

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Is There Duration Dependence in Portuguese Local Governments’ Tenure?

Castro, Vítor; Martins, Rodrigo - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2013

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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A Política Orçamental em Portugal entre Duas Intervenções do FMI: 1986-2010

Marinheiro, Carlos Fonseca - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2013

), Portugal apresentou défices orçamentais persistentes. A combinação entre a consequente acumulação de dívida e a década de 2000 …

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Turnout and the Modeling of Economic Conditions: Evidence from Portuguese Elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of economic conditions on voter turnout at Portuguese legislative and municipal elections. We use four extensive datasets to estimate an economic turnout model in which local economic variables are included in quadratic form, so that non-linear effects can be taken...

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Channels of transmission of inequality to growth: A survey of the theory and evidence from a Portuguese perspective

Duarte, Adelaide; Simões, Marta - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2009

We review the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and economic growth from the perspective of the Portuguese economy in order to identify the correct (predicted) sign for the relationship in this particular country and the underlying mechanisms that...

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How the Gold Standard Functioned in Portugal: An Analysis of Some Macroeconomic Aspects

Duarte, António Portugal; Andrade, João Sousa - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2004

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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Sustainability of Portuguese Fiscal Policy in Historical Perspective

Marinheiro, Carlos - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2005

results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. …

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The Shadow of Death: Analysing the Pre-Exit Productivity of Portuguese Manufacturing Firms

Carreira, Carlos; Teixeira, Paulino - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2009

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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Mobilidade do Capital e Sustentabilidade Externa: uma aplicação da tese de F-H a Portugal (1910-2004)

Andrade, João Sousa - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2006

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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