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Sources of convergence in the European Union: the case of Portugal

Pontes, José Pedro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2001

The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income … disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued … behind income convergence are analized by means of the decomposition of per capita income in labor productivity and …

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Regional Convergence in Portugal in the context of the European Union

Pontes, José Pedro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2000

Main trends of per capita income convergence in Portugal and the European Union are surveyed. An explanation is given … to the fact that in the last two decades countries have converged, while no visible convergence has taken place among the … distribution of the stock of existing firms in the European Union is fixed, it is assumed that the degree of convergence follows …

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Comparing Macroeconomic Returns on human and Public Capital: An Empirical Analysis of the Portuguese Case (1960-2001)

Aubyn, Miguel ST.; Pina, Álvaro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2004

The impact of human and public capital on growth is a major issue in economic theory and in policy evaluation. Using a cointegrated VAR, we estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function for Portugal with public and human capital. Return rates are then computed with and without dynamic feedbacks....

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The macro impact of the Portuguese Constitutional Court decisions regarding the budgetary proposals of the Portuguese Budget Law (2012, 2013, 2014)

Afonso, António; Caiado, Jorge; Aubyn, Miguel St. - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2015

We review the main budgetary measures not accepted by the Portuguese Constitutional Court in the Budget Laws of 2012, 2013 and 2014. Considering the feedback effect of the fiscal impulse, the impact on the budget balance is -0.42% and of -0.34% of GDP respectively for 2013 and for 2014; in both...

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Fiscal developments and financial stress: a threshold VAR analysis

Afonso, António; Baxa, Jaromír; Slavík, Michal - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2011

We use a threshold VAR analysis to study whether the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity differ depending on financial market conditions. In particular, we investigate the possibility of a non-linear propagation of fiscal developments according to different financial market stress...

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Level, Slope, Curvature of Sovereign Yield Curve and Fiscal Behaviour

Afonso, António; Martins, Manuel M. F. - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2010

We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...

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Anatomy of a fiscal débacle: the case of Portugal

Afonso, António - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2013

After entering the EU in 1986, Portugal benefited from low interest rates and some growth momentum. However, the difficulty in taming fiscal imbalances, the pro-cyclicality of fiscal policy, the use of extraordinary fiscal measures, coupled with the 2008-2009 economic and financial crisis led to...

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Interactions between Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy

Afonso, António; Balhote, Raquel - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2014

Using a panel data set of 14 EU countries from 1970 to 2012, we study the type of monetary and fiscal policies of both authorities, and assess how they are influenced by certain economic variables and events (the Maastricht Treaty, the Stability and Growth Pact, the Euro and crises). Results...

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Public finances in Portugal: a brief longrun view

Afonso, António - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2007

This paper provides a succinct overview of long-run developments regarding public finances in Portugal with an emphasis on the spending side. Issues addressed are the excessive deficit experiences of Portugal, the past experience with fiscal consolidations, and labour cost competitiveness. It is...

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Fiscal Consolidations in the Central and Eastern European Countries

Afonso, António; Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2005

We study fiscal consolidations in the Central and Eastern European countries and what determines the probability of their success. We define consolidation events as substantive improvements in fiscal balances adjusting for the impact of cyclical effects. We use Logit models for the period...

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