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Determinants of Portuguese local governments’ indebtedness

Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Veiga, Francisco José - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2014

Using an extensive dataset covering all Portuguese local governments (308), this paper analyzes the determinants of municipal deficits and debt. The results clearly indicate the existence of a political budget cycle, but there is no evidence that fiscal policy is used strategically to condition...

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The Political Economy of Portuguese Intergovernmental Grants

Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Pinho, Maria Manuel - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

We use a large and unexplored dataset covering all mainland Portuguese municipalities from 1979 to 2002 to evaluate the impact of political forces in the allocation of grants from the central government to local authorities. Empirical results clearly show that, besides variables that proxi local...

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Collective Efficiency Strategies: A Regional Development Policy Contribution for Competitiveness Enhancement

Baleiras, Rui Nuno - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2011

theory. The family of Collective Efficiency Strategies (CES) was originally con-ceived in Portugal during the 2005 …

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Turnout and the modeling of economic conditions: Evidence from Portuguese elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 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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The Political Economy of Local Governments' Expenditures

Veiga, Linda Gonçalves - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2002

decisions in Portugal. The dataset used in the empirical work has information for all mainland Portuguese municipalities from …

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The determinants of vote intentions in Portugal

Veiga, Francisco José; Veiga, Linda Gonçalves - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2001

This paper offers additional insights on the interactions between economics and politics in Portugal. We use an … unexplored data set consisting of monthly polls on vote intentions for the main political parties in Portugal, since 1986 …

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A convergência para a União Económica e Monetária: objectivo nacional ou constrangimento externo?

Torres, Francisco - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2007

In Portugal, as in most other European Union (EU) countries, the challenge of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has … compatible with the objective of EMU participation throughout the heights of the European recession in Portugal (1993/94), the … and social consensus broke once Portugal had joined EMU upon its inception. …

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Political Business Cycles in Local Employment

Coelho, Cesar Alberto Campos; Veiga, Francisco José; … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

Using employment data for municipalities, we find strong evidence of political business cycles. Employment increases shortly before elections mainly in municipalities where the mayor´s party has a majority of deputies in the municipal assembly and where she is running for reelection....

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy in Portugal: a Bayesian SVAR Analysis

Sousa, Ricardo M.; Afonso, António - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2009

In the last twenty years Portugal struggled to keep public finances under control, notably in containing primary …

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The impact of local and national economic conditions on legislative election results

Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Veiga, Francisco José - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2006

Using data for 278 Portuguese mainland municipalities, we estimate the impact of national and local economic conditions on legislative electoral outcomes over the period from the reestablishment of democracy in 1974 to the present. Empirical results indicate that the performance of the national...

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