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Aggregate and sector-specific exchange rate indexes for the Portuguese economy [PDF]
Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that fluctuations in exchange rates may have strong reallocation effects. Accession to the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, and then to the European Monetary Union in 1999, implied a drastic change in the ...
Fernando Alexandre +3 more
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Financing in the Eurosystem: Fixed Versus Variable Rate Tenders [PDF]
In a three-stage game in which banks can obtain liquidity through open market operations, interbank transactions or standing facilities we compare the equilibrium outcomes of fixed and variable rate tenders in the primary market.
Margarida Catalão-Lopes
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Measuring comovement in the time-frequency space [PDF]
The measurement of comovement among variables has a long tradition in the economic and financial literature. Traditionally, comovement is assessed in the time domain through the well-known correlation coefficient while the evolving properties are ...
António Rua
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Firm Size Distribution under Horizontal and Vertical R&D [PDF]
This paper studies the firm size distribution arising from an endogenous growth model of quality ladders with expanding variety. The probability distribution function of a given cohort of firms is a Poisson distribution that converges asymptotically to a
Fernanda Figueiredo, Pedro Mazeda Gil
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What is behind the recent evolution of Portuguese terms of trade? [PDF]
This paper analyses the evolution of Portuguese terms of trade over the last decades. Firstly, their evolution is described: (i) terms of trade registered an upward trend since the second half of the 80s, after the apparent stability observed since 1950;
Fátima Cardoso, Paulo Soares Esteves
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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ARCHAIC: JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO AND CLARICE LISPECTOR
Gragoatá, 2015 Dealing with two authors like João Cabral and Clarice Lispector is at least challenging. Mixing poetry and short story in a comparative analysis requires a double effort: firstly, it is necessary at the interpretation not to reduce the poetic into the ...
Arthur Grupillo, Cicero Cunha Bezerra
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International comovement of stock market returns: a wavelet analysis [PDF]
The assessment of the comovement among international stock markets is of key interest, for example, for the international portfolio diversification literature.
António Rua, Luís Catela Nunes
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Entry Mistakes with Strategic Pricing [PDF]
This paper concerns entry mistakes when the incumbent practices strategic pricing. It is shown that an entry mistake may be a Pareto outcome. Due to an agency problem between the owner and the manager of the entrant firm there may be pooling sequential ...
Bernardino Adão
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Why Should Central Banks Avoid the Use of the Underlying Inflation Indicator? [PDF]
This paper assesses the usefulness of the commonly used underlying inflation indicator, in light of the criteria proposed in Marques et al. (2000). Empirical evidence for a group of six countries strongly suggets that the use of underlying inflation as ...
Afonso Gonçalves da Silva +2 more
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Usos da ruralidade na arquitectura paisagista The uses of rurality in landscape architecture
Etnográfica: Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2007 Procurarei pensar os projectos e o processo de trabalho do arquitecto paisagista João Gomes da Silva através do conceito de objectificação da cultura de Richard Handler.
Sandra Xavier
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