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Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the impact of listed Portuguese companies' specific determinants on adjustment of actual debt towards target debt ratio. The specific determinants on adjustment of actual debt towards target debt ratio that we consider are: asset tangibility, size,...
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the stock indices of the PIIGS economies (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). Design/methodology/approach – The …
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in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines methodologies for measuring impact of tourism in local … areas comprehensively. It follows one specific case study. Findings – Each year, a small rural area of Portugal called …
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Purpose – This paper's aim is to test for the presence of fractional integration, or long memory, in the daily returns of the Portuguese stock market using autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA), generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and...
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countries, Portugal and Spain, over a number of years. Specifically, the paper aims to examine the extent to which banks … in Portugal and Spanish‐owned banks perform better than their Portuguese‐owned counterparts. The improvements in … deficiencies, around 20 per cent of the banks operating in Portugal and Spain were not included. Practical implications – If …
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using daily data from Portugal; also, to examine whether the temperature is driven by calendar‐related anomalies such as the … that temperature affects negatively the PSI20 stock returns in Portugal. Moreover, temperature is dependent of both January …, this is the first empirical investigation on weather and stock market returns relationship for Portugal.  …
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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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martingale hypothesis in the stock prices of the Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIIGS economies) markets. This paper … in support of the weak‐form efficiency of Italy and Spain. But Portugal, Ireland and Greece exhibit signs of long memory …
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Purpose This study aims to evaluate the performance of the Portuguese fund managers by examining the selectivity and market timing skills of 51 Portuguese mutual funds from June 2002 to March 2012. Design/methodology/approach The authors assess empirically the performance of a sample of funds by...
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Purpose Internationalisation is one of the significant manifestations of the ongoing transformation of doctoral education. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the perspectives of Portuguese universities and doctoral students regarding the importance of internationalisation and the...
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