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...

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...

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”...

Given the (increasing) view point that firms’ internationalization strategy is the unique path to overcome the Portuguese dismissal economic growth, the present paper offers a comprehensive picture of the internationalization behavior of Portuguese SME, constituting therefore an important tool...

É atribuído ao empreendedorismo e aos empreendedores um conjunto de características cujo desenvolvimento tem sido considerado prioritário pelas autoridades públicas dos mais diferentes países. Não obstante o empreendedorismo na sua forma mais comum, i.e. ‘comercial’, estar...

Poucos estudos empíricos têm sido feitos sobre empreendedorismo social, em particular, sobre o trabalho feito por indivíduos ou organizações cujo objectivo é solucionar problemas de cariz social. As empresas juniores e associações de alunos criadas no seio do sistema de ensino superior,...

In this study we test the trade Global Engagement hypothesis in which firms more globally engaged – either multinationals or exporters – are more innovative. The test is applied to 4818 Portuguese enterprises´ data for the period 2002-2004 through the use of the fourth Portuguese Community...