Latest issue of the Portuguese Economic Journal
Volume 24, Issue 2, May 2025.



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"Predicting your children’s returns to schooling" by Carlos Madeira.
"Welfare-enhancing export subsidies and agglomeration" by Wataru Johdo.
"The relationships between economic freedom, income inequality, and economic growth: empirical evidence from an asymmetric analysis in the case of Greece" by Antonis Tsitouras & Harry Papapanagos.
"Stayin’ alive? Government support measures in Portugal during the Covid-19 pandemic" by Márcio Mateus & Katja Neugebauer.
"Continuous space core-periphery model with transport costs in differentiated agriculture" by Kensuke Ohtake.
"Industrial agglomeration, firm heterogeneity, and environmental pollution" by Yiming Zhou.
"Relationship between economic growth, domestic credit and nonperforming loans: evidence from emerging economies" by Dilip Ambarkhane, Zericho R. Marak & Kuldeep Singh.




Call for papers for the Special Issue on High-Frequency Data in Economics
Edited by Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School) and António Rua (INE - Statistics Portugal & Nova SBE). The call for papers is available here.



Upcoming Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal
The 19th Annual Meeting of PEJ will be hosted by the University of Aveiro from 3 to 5 July 2026. The keynote speakers will be announced soon.



Consultaccount Award 2023
The Consultaccount Award for the best paper presented by a PhD student at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal was conferred to Anton Heil (LSE, UK) for Economic Growth and Occupational Variety. The award consisted of a certificate and a pecuniary prize in the amount of EUR 750.



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Portuguese Economy Research Report
The latest discussion paper on the blog is "Intergenerational mobility in income and education" by Luís Clemente-Casinhas, Luís Filipe Martins, and Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes.



Portuguese Economy Data Report
The latest discussion on the blog is "Fast and Exceptional Enterprise Survey - COVID-19".



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