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Understanding Peer Effects : On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

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An Econometric Analysis of Remittances-Growth : A Macroeconomic Study in Developing Country

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The importance of the flow of workers’ remittances in the economies of developing countries during the last few decades or so cannot be ignored at the face changing global order where most of the economies in the world are transforming themselves to the call of globalization and transmuting...

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Chapter 31. The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs

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Mapping a country's competitive position : a real exchange rate approach

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Understanding the election results in Portugal : a spatial econometrics point of view

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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. …

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Cost efficiency of Portuguese hotels in the Algarve : a comparative analysis using mathematical and econometric approaches

Oliveira, Ricardo; Pedro, Maria Isabel; Marques, Rui Cunha - In: Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism … 20 (2014) 4, pp. 797-812

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Mapping a country's competitive position: a real exchange rate approach

Zambujal-Oliveira, J.; Castro, Miguel Faria e - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 28 (2011) August, pp. 233-244

fundamental account). Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses the effective real exchange rate as an indicator of Portugal … path that may ensure external equilibrium for Portugal. The results show evidence of significant overvaluation of the …

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Mapping a country's competitive position: a real exchange rate approach

Zambujal‐Oliveira, J.; Faria e Castro, Miguel - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 28 (2011) 3, pp. 233-244

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