Os recursos humanos são um elemento essencial no desenvolvimento territorial. Quando os mesmos se caracterizam por um nível de formação elevado são potenciadores de uma série de efeitos que se revelam fundamentais no binómio coesão territorial-coesão social. Neste aspecto, a existência...

The literature paid some attention, some time ago, to the relationship that, supposedly, should exist between the level of consumer confidence and the unemployment rate. This relationship is interesting, both from a scientific point of view, given the inherently subjective character of that...

This note shows in what circumstances output persistence may invert the pattern of the political business cycle when inflation expectations are of the adaptive or rational type and the government preferences are quadratic over output and inflation.

The literature on electoral cycles has developed in two distinct phases. The first one considered the existence of non-rational (naive) voters whereas the second one considered fully rational voters. In our perspective, an intermediate approach is more interesting, i.e. one that considers...

Human resources are an essential element in territorial development. When the same are characterized by a high level of training are enhancers of a series of effects which are essential in the relationship between territorial and social cohesion. In this regard, the existence of higher education...

It is rather evident that there is much more (statistical) information about objective aggregates, such as inflation, output or unemployment than that concerning subjective aggregates, such as well-being, satisfaction, confidence or even expectations. Due to its characteristics, fuzzy logic can...