Purpose – What are the motivations behind the Portuguese contributions to a public campaign promoted by the National League Against the Cancer? The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, considering the cyclical behaviour of the economy. Design/methodology/approach – A panel-data...

This paper will discuss how the distribution of decentralized grants for Portuguese municipalities affects the evolution of the total amounts given by the Portuguese government to Portuguese municipalities. After a review of the literature I discuss a model based on a Bergson – Samuelson...

This paper investigates political budget cycles in the course of increasing trade openness. The data set covers up to sixty countries between 1960 and 2006. The results suggest that trade openness influences political budget cycles, so the trade-openness pattern of an economy must be considered;...

Este pequeno artigo sintetiza as preferências por níveis de imprensa de cinco distritos portugueses, coincidentes com a denominada NUT II Norte, a grosso modo. Utilizando um Índice de Preferências Específicas, demonstra que a região prefere a leituras de revistas de assuntos femininos, de...

This paper tests the joint hypotheses that policymakers engage in fiscal policy opportunism and that voters respond by rewarding that opportunism with higher vote margins. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of fiscal illusion on the previous two dimensions. Empirical results, obtained with...

<italic>A direct award allows a public sector entity to contract with a supplier of goods and services and accelerates most procedures associated with public contracts. Direct awards are used by many European municipalities and are the subject of much debate. This paper looks at the value of direct...</italic>