This paper investigates the level of customer mobility in the Portuguese financial system based on new survey data. We find that customers deal, on average, with more than one bank, and own several financial products. The results show that 46.9 per cent of customers had never switched bank in...

This paper investigates the level of customer mobility in the Portuguese financial system based on new survey data. We find that customers deal, on average, with more than one bank, and own several financial products. The results show that 46.9 per cent of customers had never switched bank in...

This paper investigates low wage retention using a survival analysis approach. Variables explaining low wage retention take into account the characteristics of the employee, such as education, age, tenure with the company, gender and nationality, and the characteristics of the job and the...

This paper compares the fitting of the normal, generalized hyperbolic, normal inverse Gaussian and Student t distributions to the daily returns of the Portuguese Stock Index PSI-20 over the period 1992-2013. We find that the distribution of the actual returns of the PSI-20 exhibits much higher...

This paper compares the fitting of the normal, generalized hyperbolic, normal inverse Gaussian and Student t distributions to the daily returns of the Portuguese Stock Index PSI-20 over the period 1992-2013. We find that the distribution of the actual returns of the PSI-20 exhibits much higher...