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Universities and economically depressed regions: how ‘attractive’ is the University of Évora?
Caleiro, António; Rego, Conceição - 2004
candidate students. KEYWORDS: Decision Analysis, Discrete Choice Models, Portugal, Universities JEL CLASSIFICATION: C21, R12, R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318722
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The dynamic behaviour of budget components and output
Afonso, António; Claeys, Peter - 2007
budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604821
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Entrepreneurial backgrounds, human capital and start-up success
Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat; Mendonça, Joana - 2007
We examine whether founders' backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-up. We develop hypotheses linking founders' back-grounds to pre-entry capabilities associated with entrepreneurial human capital, highlighting the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263803
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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263804
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Turbulence in high growth and declining industries
Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat - 2007
We examine turbulence over the product life cycle using the lowest possible level of industry aggregation, allowing for the use of panel data to study the evolution of single product markets. We find that replacement of exiting firms by subsequent entry plays a primary role in generating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263805
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Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: the Case of Portugal
Baptista, Rui; Escária, Vítor; Madruga, Paulo - 2005
This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273736
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?
Baptista, Rui; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative … discrepancies. The differences between observed levels of unemployment for Portugal and those predicted by a model based on OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276803
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Understanding the Election Results in Portugal. A spatial econometrics point of view
Caleiro, António; Guerreiro, Gertrudes - 2003
parties, at least for Portugal, clearly reflect some spatial localization we find rather intriguing to verify that so very few … analyse the results corresponding to the last legislative election that took place in Portugal, from the partisan viewpoint … link between voters' ideology and the election results obtained by the two main parties in Portugal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497639
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Fertility in Portugal. How persistent is it?
Mendes, Maria Filomena; Guerreiro, Gertrudes; Caleiro, … - 2005
The decline in fertility that has been observed in Portugal is an apparent fact. From 1960 to 2002, the average number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498614
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Sovereign Debt Crisis in Portugal and Spain
Afonso, António; Verdial, Nuno - 2020
pool of Eurozone countries and a SUR regression with Portugal and Spain covering the period 1999:11 until 2019:6. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232171