Based on the International Accounting Standard (IAS) 41 – Agriculture, this paper examines measurement practices of biological assets and their drivers, under accounting choice theory, given data from 2012. Taking into consideration 324 listed firms worldwide that have adopted International...

Using 389 firm-year observations of listed firms worldwide in 27 countries that adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) until 2010, for the period 2011-2013, the purpose of this paper is to examine the value-relevance of fair value accounting of biological assets. In order to...

We use the framework implicit in the model of inflation by Shone (1997) to address the analytical properties of a simple dynamic aggregate supply and aggregate demand (AS-AD) model and solve it numerically. The model undergoes a bifurcation as its steady state smoothly interchanges stability...

The turmoil in the financial markets that had its roots in the 2007 US subprime crisis prompted government action all over the world motivated by contagion concerns, leaving a heavy bill for the tax payers to pick up. We find that a contributory regime based on contagion risk exposure changes...

Motivado pelas dificuldades do financiamento público das universidades, a contabilidade de gestão, ao ser um efectivo sistema de apuramento de custos (Jarrar, Smith e Dolley, 2007), tem cada vez maior relevância na administração das universidades. Neste livro apresenta-se um modelo de...

Micro-credit and micro-finance emerged in the 1970’s in some Asian and Latin American countries as an instrument for fighting poverty and social exclusion. Using 2006-9 portuguese micro-level data, we estimate the failure rate of Portuguese micro-credit projects as 18,4%/year. This failure...

Este livro é um guia de apoio a Microeconomia contendo dois pontos programáticos. No 1.º capítulo, apresento o mercado desagregado em três Leis da Natureza: i) que as pretensões dos vendedores se agregam na função de oferta; ii) que as pretensões dos compradores se agregam na função de...

A number of studies in the literature have recently explored the causes behind the European productivity slowdown from the mid-1990s onwards and the correlative increase in the productivity gap between Europe and the United States (e.g., van Ark et al, 2008; Maudos et al, 2008; van Ark and Inklaar,...

We study the impact of vertical separation between an upstream firm and its subsidiary, which competes in the retail market with an independent firm, with the incentive to invest in network upgrade. This question is discussed under two alternative regimes concerning the price of the vital input...

Este artigo tem como objectivo a avaliação do policentrismo funcional dos municípios do continente Português. Para a concretização deste propósito, desenvolveu-se uma análise crítica dos conceitos de policentrismo e de policentrismo funcional cujos pressupostos orientam grande parte das...