Productive Experience and Specialization Opportunities for Portugal: An Empirical Assessment

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Productive Experience and Specialization Opportunities for Portugal: An Empirical Assessment

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Following Hidalgo et al. (SciMag 317: 482–487, 2007),we use the structure of international trade to estimate a measure of “revealed relatedness” for each pair of internationally traded products, which intends to capture similarities in terms of the endowments or capabilities they use in production.

Portugal-EU Convergence Revisited: Evidence for the Period 1960-2003

Miguel Lebre Freitas

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This paper uses the stochastic approach to convergence to investigate whether real per capita GDP in Portugal has been converging to the EU15 average. The estimation accounts for conditional convergence, transitional dynamics and up to two structural breaks. (…)