This article analyses the competitiveness in the inner regions of Portugal using an institutionalist approach. After reviewing academic work about the different aspects of competitiveness it then tests the hypothesis: “The inner regions of Portugal have competitive socio-economic dimensions in...

This paper tests the joint hypotheses that policymakers engage in fiscal policy opportunism and that voters respond by rewarding that opportunism with higher vote margins. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of fiscal illusion on the previous two dimensions. Empirical results, obtained with...

Purpose – What are the motivations behind the Portuguese contributions to a public campaign promoted by the National League Against the Cancer? The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, considering the cyclical behaviour of the economy. Design/methodology/approach – A panel-data...

O espaço regional português não é uma realidade homogénea. Compreender as diferenças das regiões é um passo essencial para esbater o que as afasta e aproveitar as potencialidades de cada uma. Nesse sentido, tem vindo a ser desenvolvido um esforço de definição de índices e indicadores...

This work analyses the evolution of real public expenditures of local and regional administrations (LRA), in Portugsl, in the period after the Second World War. It also aims to estimate the elasticities associated to determinants, which explain the found growth. As most relevant results, it is...

A hundred years after John Steinbeck's birth, I found in this date a good reason to approach The Grapes of Wrath as an introductory suggestion to some concepts of Economics to the students of the Social Communication Course of the University of Minho. These students present a diversified...

This work aims the set of redistributive policies (Factor endowments, Utilitarianism or Rawlsians) that is more significant in the Portugues Law of Local Finances. For this purpose, it starts from a model, which tries to relate the partition of a budget (that is distributed by decentralised...

Este pequeno artigo sintetiza as preferências por níveis de imprensa de cinco distritos portugueses, coincidentes com a denominada NUT II Norte, a grosso modo. Utilizando um Índice de Preferências Específicas, demonstra que a região prefere a leituras de revistas de assuntos femininos, de...