...Kjell Hausken; Jonathan W. Welburn Purpose The article develops a model to interpret the 2010–2018 financial crisis in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus, and the loan programs from the IL (International Lender; i.e. the European Union, the European Commission, and the International...

...Elva Bova; Violeta Klyviene Purpose This study analyses the impact of fiscal shocks on GDP, inflation and interest rates in Portugal over 1995–2017. Design/methodology/approach Multipliers are estimated using a structural VAR (SVAR) a' la Blanchard and Perotti (2002) using OECD elasticities...

...Alfredo M. Pereira; Rui M. Pereira; Pedro G. Rodrigues Purpose The purpose of this paper, on Portugal, is to determine the economic effects of public and private capital spending on health. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a vector autoregressive model to estimate the elasticities...

.... Design/methodology/approach – The author uses a dynamic general equilibrium closed economy model to compute the dynamic Laffer curves for Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain for different class of taxes. The general equilibrium effects of the interaction of labor tax, consumption tax and capital tax...

...Maria Teresa Medeiros Garcia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the relationship between property‐liability insurance premiums and economic and financial development in the case of Portugal, assuming a supply‐leading causality pattern of development. In other words...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Portugal Poland Government policy Fiscal policy Protectionism International investments Subsidies Taxes Innovation Research and development Endogenous growth Foreign direct investment The emergence of a knowledge‐based economy...

...Horácio C. Faustino; Nuno Carlos Leitão Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinants of vertical intra‐industry trade (VIIT) in the automobile components industry between Portugal and the European Union 27 (EU‐27) and the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) during the period...

...Alfredo Marvão Pereira; Oriol Roca‐Sagalés Purpose This paper seeks to estimate the long‐term effects on output of different fiscal policies in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach Results are obtained from accumulated impulse response functions associated with unrestricted VAR models...

... in order to upgrade the efficiency of the tax offices. Originality/value This is the first paper adopting the stochastic frontier model in tax offices. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Taxation Stochastic modelling Portugal Resource efficiency Decision making...

... by the efficiency concept. Defence sector Europe Portugal Subsidies Performance measures The industry as a whole is unable to equip Portugal's armed forces with heavy armaments, dependence for the supply of which falls upon imports from NATO‐partner manufacturers. This characterization highlights...