This article analyses the competitiveness in the inner regions of Portugal using an institutionalist approach. After reviewing academic work about the different aspects of competitiveness it then tests the hypothesis: “The inner regions of Portugal have competitive socio-economic dimensions in...

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;...

This work aims at testing the hypothesis “The economic development level of a region influences the presence of professional soccer teams in the country’s first league, which have their head offices in that region”. Using a rational choice model and working with binary time-series...

This work focus on the importance of local incentives, in the region of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal), during the 12th and the 16th centuries. It aims to test the hipothesis that actualised incentives are factors of of municipal attractivity. For this purpose, a model is enunciated; this...

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...

O presente texto vai centrar a atenção sobre o estudo das principais rubricas componentes da Despesa Pública norte-americana, inscrita no Orçamento de Estado. O conjunto de rubricas analisadas prolongar-se-á entre 1940 e 2002. Através da sugestão das elasticidades rendimento de cada...