This paper examines the convergence process among the Brazilian states using different concepts of convergence and giving special attention to the role of human capital as the conditioning factor to convergence. Different measures of human capital are used in the estimation of the convergence...

Several sales models for a consumer's goods manufacturer firm are developed and tested. A panel data approach is used to model aggregate sales across three countries, using mainly price and trade investment. We show how useful can be different panel data models to understand sales across...

The present study aims to verify whether the balance-of-payments constrained growth approach is suitable for explaining the Portuguese growth performance during the last decades. For that, we adopt "Thirlwall's Law" that predicts actual growth by the ratio of the exports growth relative to the...