The purpose of this paper is to analyse, for the case of Portugal, the effectiveness of wage reduction - a current proposal since 2011 ??to help the country to reverse the high public and external debt - in promoting the efficiency and international competitiveness of the economy. A static...

Is this paper, we used the 'complete decomposition' technique to examine CO2 emissions intensity and its components considering 16 industrial sectors over 1996-2009 period. In addition, we have implemented the forecast error variance decomposition applied to the factors in which emissions...

In a report from 2008 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development came to the conclusion that Portugal is still a country very much marked by regional asymmetries and in need of better regional governance mechanisms and policies. In the face of these conclusions it becomes...