[PDF] Top 20 MCE - A MODEL FOR THE PORTUGUESE EXTERNAL TRADE ()

... The number of estimates corresponding to over and underestimation is shown in table no. It is, therefore, not surprising that the model's structure and basic assu[r] ... See full document

... of the applications from mobile ...Nevertheless, the fact is that mobile communications technology is always evolving, so it can also be generally defined as any direct or indirect transaction with monetary ... See full document

... analyzes the impact of the 2008-2009 crisis on new firms’ initial capital ...that the recent financial crisis has severely affected not only firm creation and firm survival but also its ability to ... See full document

... (iii) the trade flows are not exogenous: they depend on the level of technology and factor endowments; (iv) there are other potential sources of adjustment costs, such as nominal wage rigidity and ... See full document

... that the substitution effect plays a prominent role in theory, like in the product cycle model developed by Vernon (1966), in which he considered that FDI affiliates´ production and sales in foreign ... See full document

... in the subject is in agreement that there are three main sets of hypoth- eses in this globalization problem: the efficiency hypothesis, the compensation hypoth- esis and the ... See full document

... tests the relation between immigration and Portuguese bilateral ...analysis, the results show that the stock of immigrants has a positive effect on Portuguese exports, imports and ... See full document

... For the purpose of measuring intra-industry trade, the variable „economies of scale‟ (ES) was introduced in the ...to the substantial amount of trade in similar products among ... See full document

... tests the relation between immigration and Portuguese bilateral trade, considering the fifteen European partners ...analysis, the results show that the stock of immigrants has a ... See full document

... for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-Pacific and Latin America (MAPEAL) also considers that “different from Hong Kong and other Chinese cities, through its own historical process of more than four centuries ... See full document

... and the development of new managerial ...have the initiative to build external relationships; at the same time this network development depends on the sup- port and autonomy given by ... See full document

... 1). The manufactured exports of Pakistan in the 1960s were more than those of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand combi ned [о]й Pakistan’s economy had also survived through various international catastrophes ... See full document

... for the footwear industry, footwear components industry, leather goods industry (bags, wallets, gloves, belts, ...for the above- mentioned sectors. The association itself is fairly small, currently ... See full document

... The global adherence of the model is quite good again, and all the statistically significant coefficents (those of Portuguese prices, British prices, Portuguese mo[r] ... See full document

... numerical model of solidification. The investigated model is based on the heat conduction equation with a heat source and solved using the finite element method ...(FEM). The ... See full document

... on the broad effects of such regulations on international trade, specially in the case of ...on the correct specification of gravity models, this paper seeks to fill this gap, bringing new ... See full document

... that the treatment rate is proportional to the number of the infected individuals when the capacity of treatment is not reached, and otherwise takes the maximal ...t the total ... See full document

... discusses the possibilities of using optical measurements for defining the geometric accuracy of gear wheels casts manufactured in the rapid prototyping ...process. The tested gear wheel ... See full document

... not the ones economic theory would prescribe. The theory of congestion pricing has a long tradition in ...by the early work of Pigou [1932] and Knight [1924], it prescribes a tax - often called a ... See full document

... for the higher pollution levels in the South by leveling prices for production factors in such a way that the global level of pollution remains constant: reduced emissions equal reduced contributions ... See full document