This article presents an evaluation of the economic adjustment program negotiated between the Portuguese government and the Troika (European Commission, ECB and IMF) in May 2011, with an assessment different from the usual exercises. Instead of an ex-post comparison between the actual results...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the structure and evolution of production, employment and human capital in Portugal, using an inter-industry approach. A descriptive analysis of the sector composition of gross output, value added and employment is made, followed by a quantification...

In this paper we propose a new index of connectedness for an input – output system which is considered useful for quantifying economic complexity as the level of interdependence between the component parts (sectors) of a national (or regional) economy. This index is empirically applied in a...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the structure and evolution of production, employment and human capital in Portugal, using an inter-industry approach. A descriptive analysis of the sector composition of gross output, value added and employment is made, followed by a quantification...

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...