The paper presents a foresight analysis methodology and its empirical application in the context of housing market. This work was developed in the context of a wider research project, ?Drivers Of housiNg demand in Portuguese Urban sysTem? ? DONUT, which analyses the Portuguese housing market....

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...

The aim of this paper is to explain regional convergence in Portugal, at Nuts III level, in terms of per capita income and productivity. In doing so, we employ an alternative estimation approach based on panel data analysis that allows for individual differences across regions, avoiding with...