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The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth:the Portuguese exper...
Leitão, Nuno Carlos; Rasekhi, SaeedThis study examines the link between economic growth and foreign direct investment for Portugal. Using a panel data approach, the results show that there is convergence among Portugal and her trading partners. Our results also demonstrate that foreign direct investment and bilateral trade promote economic growth. The growth is negatively correlated with inflation and the initial level of GDP per capita. As in p...
Financial management and economic growth:the european countries experience
Leitão, Nuno CarlosThe purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of financial development on economic growth applied to European Countries. The initial GDP per capita is negatively correlated with growth of real GDP per capita. Our study shows that there isconvergence within European Countries for the period 1990-2009. This paper confirms relevant theoretical hypothesis as international trade and saving enc ourage th...
Carbon dioxide emissions,urbanization and globalization:a dynamic panel data
Leitão, Nuno CarlosThis study investigates the existence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its relationship with economic growth, energy consumption and globalization over the period of 1990-2010. We apply a dynamic panel data (GMM-system estimator) using the data of selected 18 countries. This estimator permits to solve the problems of serial correlation, heteroskedasticity and endogenei...
Migration and tourism demand
Leitão, Nuno Carlos; Shahbaz, MuhammadThis study considers the relationship between immigration and Portuguese tourism demand for the period 1995-2008, using a dynamic panel data approach. The findings indicate that Portuguese tourism increased significantly during the period in accordance with the values expected for a developed country. The regression results show that income, shock of immigration, population, and geographical distance between Po...
Foreign direct investment and globalization
Leitão, Nuno CarlosThe main objective of this article is to explain the link between foreign direct investment and globalization. The determinants of the location were used as market size, human capital, and urban population. Beyond these one institutional variable was introduced – the impact of global ization on FDI. The study applies a panel data approach (fixed effects and GMM system estima tor). The results show that market s...
Immigration and trade
Leitão, Nuno Carlos; Dima, Bogdan; Dima, StefanaThis paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT), horizontal IIT, vertical IIT (VIIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 1995-2008 amongst Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). Using a panel data approach, the results show a positive correlation between immigration and IIT. These outcomes indicate that the immigration can reduce transaction costs...
GMM estimator:an application to intraindustry trade
Leitão, Nuno CarlosThis paper investigates the determinants of intraindustry trade (IIT), horizontal IIT(HIIT), and Vertical IIT (VIIT) in the automobile industry in Portugal. The trade in this sector between Portugal and the European Union (EU-27) was examined, between 1995 and 2008, using a dynamic panel data. We apply the GMM system to solve the problems of serial correlation and the endogeneity of some explanatory variables. ...
Crescimento económico, globalização e investimento direto estrangeiro:um estudo...
Leitão, Nuno CarlosA presente investigação examina a relação entre o crescimento económico e a globalização aplicado ao caso português, utilizando dados em painel para o período temporal de 1995 a 2008. Na década de 1980 e 1990 muito se escreveu acerca da globalização (Ohmae, 1995; Oman 1994; Dunning 1993). As recentes mudanças da economia internacional permitem explicar o crescimento económico através da globalização, do investi...
Portuguese intra-industry trade and labor market adjustment costs:the sah again
Faustino, Horácio C.; Leitão, Nuno CarlosThis paper provides an empirical test of the SAH (smooth adjustment hypothesis) using the data on Portugal. According to the SAH, intra-industry trade leads to relatively lower adjustment costs in comparison to inter-industry trade. The paper tests the SAH by using a dynamic panel data analysis that takes into account lagged effects of changes in the MIIT (marginal intra-industry trade) index. The regressions u...
Economic growth, globalization and trade
Leitão, Nuno CarlosThe purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between economic growth, globalization and trade. The manuscript uses the assumptions of the economic growth exogenous and endogenous models. It introduces new proxies for explain the economic growth as in intra-industry trade, foreign direct investment and globalization index. The results indicate that economic growth is a dynamic process. The intr...
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