infrastructures in Portugal. The empirical results are based on VAR/ECM models for the Portuguese economy and for eighteen industries …-term economic performance in Portugal it does so in a way that is rather unbalanced across industries. …

in Portugal. We also find that these positive effects are not strong enough for public investment to pay for itself in … transportation infrastructures. For these, the effects on output are strong enough for public investment to pay for itself. Therefore …

performance using a newly developed data set for Portugal. We find that investments in other transportation infrastructures … – railroads, ports and airports – and social infrastructures – health and education infrastructures, have the largest effects with … transportation and utilities. Finally, we show that investments in other infrastructures and in social infrastructures will pay for …

In this paper we analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance in Portugal using a newly … telecommunications. For all of these infrastructures, the output multipliers are sizable enough to suggest that these investments would … infrastructures the bulk of the effects are short-term demand side effects while for railroads and health the bulk of the effects come …

capital. The spillovers effects generated by infrastructures located in other regions do not seem to encourage private …

function approach may not be reliable to determine the macroeconomic returns of public infrastructures. Two sources of biases … contribution of infrastructures. The standard correction proposed in the literature, based on a specification in first differences …

Owing to slow growth and a relatively weak fiscal position, Portugal’s public debt had been rising for almost a decade … Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/portugal). …

Owing to slow growth and a relatively weak fiscal position, Portugal’s public debt had been rising for almost a decade … Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/portugal).<P>Portugal : Mettre en place des bases solides pour un assainissement budgétaire … Portugal était en augmentation depuis près d’une décennie lorsque la crise mondiale a frappé, creusant sensiblement le déficit …