This text attempts to survey the studies on the history of international economic relations in Portugal. To begin with, it states, in a more general analysis, that the research on the history of international economic relations in Portugal has focussed mainly on the history of the international...

This paper describes recent developments on Portuguese retrospective national accounts, and presents new (very provisional) figures of Portuguese gross domestic product for the period 1837-1952 (the period from 1953 on is now covered by reliable official or semi-official figures

During the Second World War, the Portuguese capital market was characterized by a glut of savings opportunities and a shortage of investment opportunities. The glut of savings opportunities was caused by surpluses in the balance of payments, which resulted from Portugal's neutrality and its...

Market capitalism has been the economic system of the contemporary world economy since the early stages of its formation. However, at the same time, market capitalism has been subject to a number of threats. Some of these threats arise from market failures. Others arise from the development of...

This text tries to assess the relation between the privatization and transnationalization processes in the Portuguese economy in the last two decades of the 20th century and the early 2151 century. It concludes that the privatization process changed the Portuguese economic system from a strong...

This paper analyses the behaviour of the Portuguese income velocity of money from 1854, when Portugal precociously accepted the rules of the gold exchange standard and the eve of the European Economic Union. The long run behaviour of income velocity of money in Portugal displays, throughout the...

This paper tries to make a quantitative assessment of the evolution of the main economic activities directly related to the sea- fishing, ports, merchant navy and naval defence - in Portugal since the 19th century. It concludes that these activities increased their importance in the early 20th...

This working paper gathers statistical data on meteorological series for the territory of Portugal that could not be included in the collection Portuguese Historical Statistics published by the Instituto Nacional de Estatistica in 2001.