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Doctoral dissertations Economics

2023

Hélio de Jesus Corguinho Branco Fernandes
The Effect of Ethnic Origin on Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Mozambican Entrepreneurs
17/07/2023
Advisor: Dr. Joaquim Ramos Silva

Pedro Cavalcanti Gonçalves Ferreira
Essays on Market Power, Inequality and Antitrust Regulation
06/06/2023
Advisor: Dr. Filomena Maria dos Santos Garcia

Maximilian Göbel
Networks, Spillovers, and Nonlinearities in Economics
27/04/2023
Advisor: Dr. Tanya Vianna de Araújo

Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão Rodrigues
Uncertainty, Corruption, Trust in Government and the Effectiveness of Government Spending
15/02/2023
Advisor: Dr. Sandra Cristina Camacho Gomes Rua
Co-supervisor: Dr. Luís Filipe Pereira da Costa

Jelson Francisco Quintino Serafim
Essays on Financial Markets in Africa
30/01/2023
Supervisor: Dr. Manuel António Ennes Ferreira
Co-supervisor: Dr. João Dias

2022

João Miguel Falcão Pinto Da Silva
Essays On International Economics: External Balances Cyclical Adjustment And Cross-Border Financial Linkages
09/02/2022
Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Pedro Brito St. Aubyn
Co-supervisor: Dr. João Luís Morais Amador

2021

Zoë Venter
Essays On Monetary Policy And Financial Stability
02/07/2021
Supervisor: Dr. António Manuel Pedro Afonso

Frederico Gonçalo Da Silva Leal
Essays On Fiscal Policy In Eurozone
06/04/2021
Supervisor: Dr. António Manuel Pedro Afonso

2020

João Alexandre Parreira Silvestre
Agent-Based Models in Macroeconomics
16/06/2020
Advisor: Dr. Tanya Vianna de Araújo
Co-supervisor: Dr. Miguel Pedro Brito St. Aubyn

Rui Alexandre Rodrigues Veloso Faustino
Essays in Macroeconomics
09/06/2020
Supervisor: Dr. Luís Filipe Pereira da Costa

João Paulo Cabral Pereira
Demographic Changes in a Life-Cycle Small Open Economy with Endogenous Time Allocation and Age-Dependent Mortality
08/05/2020
Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Pedro Brito St. Aubyn
Co-supervisor: Dr. Manuel Cidrães Castro Guerra

2019

José Carlos Miranda Coelho
The relationship between the Budget Deficit, the External Deficit and the Unemployment Rate: Macroeconomic and Budgetary Policy Analysis in a Framework Input-Output and Empirical Evidence for Portugal
18/12/2019
Advisor: Dr. João Carlos Ferreira Lopes
Co-advisor: Dr. João Martins Ferreira do Amaral

Elenildes Santana Pereira
The Dynamics of International CommoditiesAn Approach to the Brazilian Case
25/11/2019
Advisor: Dr. Joaquim Alexandre dos Ramos Silva

José Ricardo Borges Alves
Essays on Macroeconomic Aspects of Taxation
04/06/2019
Supervisor: Dr. António Manuel Pedro Afonso

Francesca Fiorentino
Access to Healthcare in Portugal: Assessing Geographical, Organizational and Financial Barriers
07/05/2019
Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Pedro Brito St. Aubyn

2018

Inácia Carvalho Dias Ferreira Pimentel Pacheco Pereira
Three Essays on Public Investment Versus Private Investment
12/10/2018
Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Pedro Brito St. Aubyn

Jorge Daniel Faria Silva
Essays on macroeconomic policy in Portugal
17/09/2018
Supervisor: Dr. António Manuel Pedro Afonso

Enrique Martínez Galán
A Contribution to Evaluate the Impact of Global Value Chains
28/02/2018
Advisor: Dr. Maria Paula Fontoura Carvalhão de Sousa

Flávio Ivo Riedlinger de Magalhães 
Essays in Technical Analysis and Markov Chains
08/02/2018
Supervisor: Dr. João Carlos Henriques da Costa Nicolau

2017

Rui Manuel Cartaxo Simões de Carvalho
University Technology Transfer and the Role of Technology Transfer Offices
22/02/2017  
Supervisor: Dr. Manuel Fernando Cília de Mira Gordinho

2016

Cláudia Filipa Pires Duarte
Essays on Mixed-Frequency Data: Forecasting And Unit Root Testing
24/05/2016

César Fernando Reis
The Role of the Banking System in Angola's Economic Development: The Post-Civil War Period
25/11/2016

2015

Fernando Manuel Monteiro Martins
Price and Wage Rigidities - Microeconomic Evidence
15/12/2015  

Carla Regina Ferreira Freire Guimarães
Tourism, Wage Differentials and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Brazil
26/11/2015

Miguel José Ferros Pimentel Reis da Fonseca
Portugal's Direct Investment Abroad: Development Pattern and Domestic Effects
19/06/2015 

Olinda Maria Dos Santos Sequeira 
Energy Sector - Efficiency, Frontier Techniques and Meta-Analysis
08/06/2015

2014

Sandra Cristina Camacho Gomes Rua 
Essays In Macroeconomics With General Equilibrium Models
26/06/2014

2013

Sara Isabel Azevedo Proença
Impact Assessment of Energy and Climate Policies - A Hybrid Bottom-Up General Equilibrium Model (Hybgem) for Portugal
23/10/2013

Luís Tadeu Milheiro de Menezes Pinto Machado
Destination Image & Competitiveness: The Case of Madeira Island
27/09/2013

José Luís do Livramento Monteiro Alves de Brito
Cape Verde, from an Income Economy to a Sustainable Economic Model
07/03/2013

Celso Luís Pereira Nunes
Poverty Measurement - A Theoretical Contribution and Application to Portugal 2007
19/02/2013

Mariya Gubareva
Flight-to-Quality Phenomenon as a Source of Financial Instability
08/01/2013

2012

José Manuel Norberto Jardim
The underground economy and the fiscal stance - Is there a natural level of the underground economy and how does it affect fiscal consolidation?
13/04/2012

Rodolfo da Fonseca Pignatelli Soares Varela Pinto
Evaluation of the Concept of Credit Risk Profile in the Analysis of Banking Systems
20/12/2012

2011

Manuel Bernardo Videira Coutinho Rodrigues Pereira 
Effects of Fiscal Policy: Measurement Issues and Structural Change
2011/05/13

António Miguel Pinto de Oliveira Gomes Rua 
Essays on Wavelets in Economics
2011/07/11

2010

Cristiano Dias Cechella 
Emerging Countries as International Investors: The Case of Brazilian Companies in Portugal
2010/01/04

Sara Sofia Vaz Paralta 
Longevity and Saving for Retirement
2010/07/26

Vítor Hugo dos Santos Ferreira 
Through Mountains and Valleys: Innovation Dynamics and Regional Catching-up
2010/12/21

2009

Andrea da Silva Amaral
Banking Crises: Contributions from a Spatial Perspective
2009/01/21

Elsa Cristina Neves Januário Vaz
The External Competitiveness of the Portuguese Economy in the Enlarged European Union
2009/02/06

Nuno Miguel Simões Venes
Fiscal Policy: Empirical Essays
2009/04/27

Ana Sofia Terlica Pereira
The Evolution of Computing in Economics: from the Age of Probability to the Age of Simulations
2009/06/08

Nádia Nogueira Simões
Essays on Employment and Employability Policies
2009/06/25

Henrique Pedro Currais Monteiro
Water tariffs. Methods for an Efficient Cost Recovery and for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Portugal
2009/11/17

2008

Custódia do Sacramento Ferro Costa
Development and Communication. Letter Communication in the Present Time and its Relation to Economic, Social and Cultural Development in Portugal, 2008/05/20

2007

Cristina Maria Paixão de Sousa
The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Portuguese Innovation System: Actors, Interactions and Institutions
2007/02/26

Márcio Veras Corrêa
Essays on Job-Matching Theory
2007/02/27

José Carlos Fernandes de Azevedo Pereira
Economic Relations between South Africa and Mozambique: Cooperation or Domination?
2007/03/08

Carlos Manuel da Luz Delgado Rocha
Macroeconomic Stabilization and Monetary Policy in Cape Verde
2007/04/13

Nuno Miguel Pascoal Crespo
Real Convergence of a Peripheral Economy in an Integrated Space - An Application to Portugal in the Context of the European Union
2007/04/16

Alexandra Maria do Nascimento Ferreira Lopes
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy
2007/05/22

Paula Alexandra Lourenço de Menezes Ferreira Borges
The Sustainability of Public Finances: Stocks and Flows
2007/07/27

Maria Luísa Ferreira Lopes
Innovation Economics in Services: Three Essays
2007/11/26

Pedro António Basto de Sousa
Monetary Policy Decisions in a Space of Heterogeneous National Economies
2007/12/17

2006

Eduardo Manuel Machado de Moraes Sarmento Ferreira
Tourism in the Context of a Small Island Economy: The Case of Cape Verde
2006/01/23

Manuel Francisco Magalhães Cabugueira
Microeconomic Analysis of Voluntary Action in Environmental Regulation
2006/02/23

Marc Marie Luc Philippe Jacquinet
Technological, Institutional and Market Structure Changes as Evolutionary Processes: The Case Port Wine Sector (1680-1974)
2006/07/21

Luísa Maria da Silva Henriques dos Santos
The Dynamics of a National System of Innovation and the Role of the Non-Profit Space: Portugal as a Research Laboratory
2006/09/27

Luís Miguel da Mata Artur Dias Pacheco
Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism: The Role of Asset Prices
2006/11/28

2005

Francisco José Duarte Nunes
Poverty Dynamics and the Effectiveness of the Solidarity and Social Security System - An Application to Portugal
2005/01/18

Álvaro António Calado Afonso Matias
Economic Theory and Tourism. Fundamentals and Applications
2005/04/13

Alexandre Lyra Martins
The Brazilian Inflationary Process: 1890-1990. Political and Cultural Constraints
2005/06/30

Armando José Garcia Pires
R&D Investment. International Trade, Industrial Location and Multinational Choice
2005/07/15

Miguel Alexandre Teixeira Coelho
Essays on the Relationship between Macroeconomics and the Stock Market
2005/10/24

Carlos Alberto Farinha Rodrigues
Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Portugal in the 1990s
2005/12/05

2003

Maria Helena Gomes dos Reis
The Social Economy in the Face of Employment Issues: The Regulatory Role of the Third Sector in Economic and Social Policy
2003/02/04

Carla Margarida Barroso Guapo da Costa
Portuguese Investment in Brazil: Traditional Determinants and the Contribution of Cultural Proximity
2003/06/18

Manuel Piedade dos Santos Júnior
Reform of the Financial System in Angola. A Challenge for the Sustainable Development of the Economy
2003/07/22

Luís Manuel Ribeiro Vieira
Analytical Processing, a Crucial Element in the Maturity Analysis of Information Systems for the Economy
2003/10/13

2002

João Carlos de Andrade Marques Graça
The Economic and Social Ideas of José Frederico Laranjo
2002/02/18

José Luís de Almeida Silva
The E-Company and the Smart Worker in Traditional Industries
2002/04/15

António Manuel Pedro Afonso
Essays on Budgetary Policy
2002/07/08

Gelfa de Maria Costa Aguiar
Globalization and Brazil's Economic Insertion: Foreign Direct Investment Flows in the 1990s
2002/10/14

Maria Manuela Santos Ferreira de Castro Coutinho
Social Economy in Portugal. The Emergence of the Third Sector in Social Policy
2002/12/09

2001

Vítor Manuel Mendes Magriço
International Alliances of Portuguese Companies in a Context of Techno-Economic Globalization
2001/01/22

Constantino Mendes Rei
Inflation, Productivity and Efficiency-X: An Empirical Investigation
2001/01/29

Maria Rosa Vidigal Cruz Quartin Borges
Dividends and Market Imperfections: Study of Price Behavior in the Dividend Period, Considering Taxes and Transaction Costs - The Portuguese Case
2001/11/06

Eduardo Luís de Campos Soares Tomé
The Portuguese Experience (1986-99) of a European Institution: The European Social Fund. Study from an Evaluation Methodology Perspective
2001/11/13

Maria Teresa Medeiros Garcia
Retirement and Pension Funds: Investment Behavior and Risk Management of Pension Fund Management Companies
2001/11/14

2000

Paula Cristina Antunes Mateus de Albuquerque
Essays on the Microstructure of the Portuguese Foreign Exchange Market
2000/07/04

Maria de Lourdes Bravo
Container Traffic as part of Multimodal Logistics, with a focus on European Traffic
2000/10/27

1999

Susana Maria Gonçalves dos Santos
The Social Accounting Matrix as a Working Tool for Defining Economic Policy - Application to Portugal in the 1986-90 Period, with an Emphasis on the Agro-Industrial Sector
1999/04/23

Manuel Francisco Pacheco Coelho
The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited - Cod Fishing in Newfoundland: Consequences of the 200-Mile Regime
1999/06/08

Amélia Cristina Marçal Alves Bastos
Child Poverty - Conceptualization and Measurement Test with Application to an Urban Area in Portugal
1999/08/27

Maria de Fátima Castanheira Cortês Damásio Geada
Monetary Versus Fiscal Policy - The Road to the Single Currency - The Portuguese Case
1999/12/06

1998

Manuel António de Medeiros Ennes Ferreira
Angola: The Manufacturing Industry in a Centrally Managed and Planned Economy and in a War Situation (1975/1991)
1998/04/02

José Fernandes Soares
Theory and Practice of Cross-Subsidization - Application to a Portuguese Local Telecommunications Network
1998/11/03

Pedro Alexandre Reis Carvalho Leão
Macroeconomics and Business Cycles - An Integration of Equilibrium and Imbalance Theories
1998/11/24

Mário Guilhermo Gomes Olivares
The Scientific Research Program of J. M. Keynes
1998/12/16

1997

Mª Isabel de Deus Mendes
The Recreational Value of Protected Areas - An Application to the Case of the Peneda-Gerês National Park
1997/02/24

Mª Helena da Cunha Rato
Foreign Investment in the Maghreb
1997/02/25

Mª Leonor Bastos de Vasconcelos Ferreira
Theory and Methodology of Poverty Measurement - Application to the Portuguese Situation in the Eighties
1997/10/16

Elsa Maria Nobre da Silva Fontainha
Productive Capacity Utilization: Conceptions, Evaluation Methodologies and Determinants. Analysis of the Portuguese Food Manufacturing Sector
1997/12/18

1996

José Manuel Monteiro Barata
Information Systems and Technologies and Competitiveness in the Banking Sector in Portugal, 1996/01/30

Mário Caldeira Dias
Evaluation of Employment and Vocational Training Policies, 1996/03/14

João Carlos Ferreira Lopes
Economic Growth and Convergence: Theoretical Issues, Empirical Methods and an Approach to the Portuguese Case, 1996/07/02

Mª Cândida Rodrigues Ferreira
Stabilization and Control of Economic Systems - Contribution to a Critical Analysis of Optimal Control Methodologies, 1996/07/25

José Ramos Pires Manso
Structural Dynamics and Interfactorial and Interenergy Substitution - Analysis Methodology and Application to Energy Substitution in Portugal, 1996/07/31

Francisco Anacleto Louçã
Turbulence in the Economy - The Epistemological, Theoretical and Analytical Conditions for Research into the Long Waves of Capitalist Development, 1996/09/09

1995

Paulo Meneses Brasil de Brito
Real Exchange Rate, Growth and External Debt, 1995/05/02

Horácio Crespo Faustino
The Effects of Joining the EEC and Preparing for the Single Market on the Structural Adjustment of the Portuguese Economy: Specialization and Trade Patterns, 1995/11/15

1994

José Manuel Zorro Mendes
Residential Electricity Demand in Portugal, 1994/07/26

1993

Rui Beatriz Leote de Paiva
Measuring Efficiency in the Hospital Sector, 1993/01/08

João Dias
Effects of Preferential Advantages: The Impact of the Lomé Convention on ACP Exports to the EEC, 1975/85, 1993/01/26

Artur Carlos Barros da Silva Lopes
Inflation Expectations in Portugal, 1978-1989, 1993/12/17

1992

Maria Manuela de Brito Arcanjo Marques da Costa
Analysis and Evaluation of Social Security Systems - A Model Applied to Portugal, 1992/02/07

Francisco Cabral Cordovil
Production Strategies and Agricultural Incomes, 1992/06/17

Graça Maria Justino Leão Fernandes
Wage Formation - An Application to the Manufacturing Industry in Portugal, 1992/07/20

1991

Carlos Alberto Pestana Barros
Allocation of Resources to Investment in the Open Economy, 1991/01/11

António José de Castro Guerra
Forms and Determinants of Companies' External Involvement - Internationalization of the Automotive Industry and Integration, 1991/02/05

João Manuel de Sousa Andrade e Silva
Tariff Structures in the Insurance Industry - An Application to the Automobile Sector in Portugal, 1991/07/26

João Albino Matos da Silva
Tourism in Portugal. An Analysis of Micro-Macroeconomic Integration, 1991/10/21

António Manuel Almeida Serra
Agrarian Policy and Economic and Social Development in the People's Republic of Mozambique, 1975/85, 1991/12/17

Fernando Jorge de Castro Teixeira Cardoso
Strategies, Local Economies and Agricultural Enterprises - Rural Development in Mozambique, 1991/12/20

1990

Mª Paula Fontoura Carvalhão de Sousa
Commercial Protection in the Manufacturing Industry in Portugal: Structures and Determinants in the Period 1974-86
1990/02/20

Mário Nunes Gomes Bairrada
The Growth of Services and the Mutation of Economic Systems: The Process of Tertiaryization - Essay on the Portuguese Economy
1990/03/07

Carlos Manuel Bastien Raposo
"For the History of Economic Ideas in Contemporary Portugal - The Crisis of the Years 1945-1954"
1990/03/20

João António Ramos Estêvão
Colonial Currency and Monetization - An Approach to the Cape Verdean Case at the End of the Colonial Period (1961-1973)
1990/03/22

1989

Mário Patinha Antão
The Evaluation of Exchange Rate Policy in Small Open Economies - The Case of Portugal in the 1970s and 1980s
1989/04/14

Nelson Rosas Ribeiro
The Accumulation of Capital in Brazil: Expansion and Crisis, 1989/05/03

Elivan Gonçalves Rosas Ribeiro
Contribution to the Economic Theory of the Colonial System (From Portugal-Angola Relations), 1989/05/30

Carlos José de Almeida Noéme
An Economic Planning Model Applied to the Agri-Food Sector in Portugal - Using Multi-Objective Analysis
1989/07/12

Vitor Manuel da Silva Santos
Market Structures and International Integration - The Portuguese Manufacturing Industry in the 1977-82 Period
1989/10/04

António Luis Silvestre
Credit Market Imbalance and Economic Policy - An Application to the Portuguese Case
1989/10/19

Margarida Maria Simões Chagas Lopes
From Socio-Occupational Mobility to Professional Careers: The Portuguese Case
1989/11/20

Ana Bela Pereira Macias Nunes
Active Population and Economic Activity in Portugal from the End of the 19th Century to the Present Day - A Contribution to the Study of Portuguese Economic Growth Supplementary Proof: The Portuguese Urban Network and Modern Economic Growth
1989/12/13

1988

Joaquim Martins Barata
Social Update Rate Complimentary Evidence: Application of Economic Calculation to Integrated Regional Development Programs
1988/02/02

Carlos Eugénio Raposo Gouveia Pinto
Incidence of Benefits from the Public Provision of Goods - Application to the Health Care Sector in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in 1980/81 and 1985
1988/02/12

José Maria Freire Brandão de Brito
Industrial Conditioning and the Portuguese Industrialization Process after World War II
1988/03/03

José Luís Miranda Cardoso
Economic Thought in Portugal at the End of the 18th Century (1780-1808)
1988/07/11

1987

Sérgio José Ferreira Ribeiro
Human Resource Planning in the Development Strategy of Developing Countries Supplementary Evidence: Older People and the Employment of their Labor Force
1987/02/03

José Pedro Veloso de Sousa Pontes
Space Competition and Regional Policy
1987/09/29

Manuel Brandão de Vasconcelos Alves
Decentralization and Spatial Interdependence of Decision Processes
1987/10/19

António Augusto de Ascenção Mendonça
The Capitalist Economic Crisis and its Contemporary Form Supplementary Test: Models of Transformation of Values into Production Prices: Some Recent Theoretical Developments
1987/11/18

1986

Mª Eugénia de Almeida Mata
Portuguese Public Finances from the Regeneration to the First World War
1986/05/12

Daniel Bessa Fernandes Coelho
The Portuguese Inflationary Process - 1945-1980
1986/07/11

Felisberto Marques Reigado
The Input-Output Model in Long-Term Planning Complementary Proof: Integration of Production Functions and the Semi-Input-Output Model in a Global Planning Model: Some Methodological Research Hypotheses
1986/10/07

1985

Adriano Lopes Gomes Pimpão
Macroeconomic Planning and Business Planning
1985/12/06

Carlos José Gomes Pimenta
Contributions to the Explanation of Inflation in Portugal Supplementary Evidence: Model for Professional Wages in Portuguese Industry
1985/12/17

1984

João Martins Ferreira do Amaral
A Nonlinear Input-Output Model
1984/03/12

Álvaro Gonçalves Martins
Energy Rationing in a Crisis Situation
1984/09/24

1983

Américo Henrique Rodrigues Ramos dos Santos
Human Resources and Technology in Developing Countries - Measurement and Interpretative Essay Complementary Test: Qualitative Mismatches in the Portuguese Labor Market
1983/11/16

Manuel Vitor Moreira Martins
Analysis of Monetary and Financial Integration Factors in Economic Policy Models
1983/11/25

1982

José Manuel Rolo Ferreira Correia
The Foreign Technological Component of the Portuguese Heavy Electromechanical Industry: A Systematic Treatment Test Supplementary Evidence: The Measurement of Technical Progress: Some Research Hypotheses
1982/02/26

Nuno João de Oliveira Valério
Portuguese Public Finances between the two World Wars Supplementary Test: Currency in Portugal - 1913-1947
1982/11/30

1981

Adelino Augusto Torres Guimarães
Colonization, Capital Penetration and Dependence (Angola) Supplementary Test: Evolution of Some Components of Angola's Balance of Payments at the End of the Colonial Period
1981/11/17

1980

Mª Clementina Rodrigues Viseu
Contributions of Economic Theory to Anti-Inflation Policy Supplementary Test: Inflation in Modern Industrial Economies according to Marxian/Marxist Authors
1980/04/15

1970

Mário Luis da Silva Murteira
Wage Determination in Industry
1970/07/24

1961

Francisco José Cruz Pereira de Moura
Location of Industries and Economic Development
1961/10/19

1957

Luis Maria Teixeira Pinto
Some Aspects of the Theory of Economic Growth
1957/04/01

Manuel Jacinto Nunes
National Income and Budget Balance
1957/05/13