Following Hidalgo et. al. (2007), we use the structure of international trade in 2005 to estimate a measure of “revealed relatedness” for each pair of internationally traded products, which intends to capture similarities in terms of the capabilities they use in production. Our method...

O acordo de Parceria Transatlântica de Comércio e Investimento (TTIP) é uma proposta de acordo de comércio livre entre a União Europeia e os EUA que irá criar o maior espaço económico integrado do mundo. Neste artigo avalia-se o potencial impacto da TTIP sobre a economia portuguesa ao...

Esta análise propõe-se aferir a importância das restrições de financiamento das empresas portuguesas no crescimento da economia, concluindo que a dificuldade de acesso ao financiamento, no período 2010-2014, foi um dos principais entraves à competitividade das empresas. O principal...

The growing importance of institutions as a determinant of inward FDI has sparked interest in determining their relationship. In the present study, we intended to explore the relationship between the institutional variables of the Doing Business report and inward FDI. The main question is...

Despite the very few studies regarding FDI in Portuguese regions - especially regarding its effects - FDI can be an important catalyst for regional economic development and growth. This work studies the existing FDI in the Portuguese regions, analysing its distribution by NUTS III, the sectors...

The youth unemployment rate in Europe increased to very high levels after the great recession of 2008, reaching 23% in European Union and 45% in southern European countries. We examine the causes of the high youth unemployment rate which is consistently bigger than the overall unemployment rate....

The uneven spatial distribution of start-ups observed for Portugal from 2003 to 2009 suggests that local attributes, among which the quality of municipal institutions and their respective governance, impact the entrepreneurial process. Through the usage of a fixed effects negative binomial...

We evaluate the quality of OECD's and IMF's forecasts for real GDP growth and for GDP expenditure components. We use a scaled statistic to compare the prediction models' performance across GDP components with different volatilities and decompose the GDP forecast error into the corresponding...

The relative attractiveness of cities as places to live determines population movements in or out of them. Understanding the appealing features of a city is fundamental to local governments, particularly for cities facing population decline. Pull and push attributes of cities can include...