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Ecoliteracia
Correia, Vanda; Pedro, Josélia; Matos, PedroUIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020; Este artigo refere-se a um trabalho de investigação realizado em contexto académico, com estudantes do 3º ano da licenciatura em Design de Comunicação do Politécnico de Portalegre, que tem por objectivo chegar à definição de um instrumento de auxílio à implementação de critérios de sustentabilidade no desenvolvimento de projetos de design de embalagens e rótulos e que, em simult...
Foreign direct investment
Lima, Filipa; Pinheiro, Flávio L.; Silva, João Falcão; Matos, PedroLima, F., Pinheiro, F. L., Silva, J. F., & Matos, P. (2020). Foreign direct investment: using network analysis to understand the position of Portugal in a global FDI network. In Bridging measurement challenges and analytical needs of external statistics: evolution or revolution?: Proceedings of the IFC Conference on external statistics, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 February 2020 (pp. 1-16). (IFC Bulletin; No. 52). B...
Efeito da empagliflozina para além do controlo glicémico
Monteiro, Pedro; Aguiar, Carlos; Matos, Pedro; Silva‐Nunes, José; Birne, Rita; Branco, Patrícia; Calado, Joaquim; Melo, Miguel; Polónia, JorgeThe prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) continues to increase, and its association with cardiovascular (CV) disease has led to the inclusion of CV endpoints in clinical trials on the treatment of T2D. This article explores the various trials already performed and under development in this field, with particular focus on the EMPA‐REG OUTCOME trial. In this trial, empagliflozin, a sodium‐glucose co‐transporter 2 ...
International corporate governance spillovers
Albuquerque, Rui; Brandao-Marques, Luis; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, PedroFunding agencies: European Research Council, Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (grant nr.: PTDC/IIM-FIN/2977/2014) and Mayo Center for Asset Management; We test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance spillovers in the host country. Using firm-level data from 64 countries during the period 2005-2014, we find that cross-border M&A activity is associated with subsequent impr...
Do general managerial skills spur innovation?
Custódio, Cláudia; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, PedroFunding agency: European Research Council and FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia; We show that firms with chief executive officers (CEOs) who gain general managerial skills over their lifetime of work experience produce more patents.We address the potential endogenous CEO-firm matching bias using firm-CEO fixed effects and variation in the enforceability of noncompete agreements across states and over tim...
Asset management within commercial banking groups
Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, Pedro; Pires, PedroFunfing agency: International Monetary Fund (IMF), University of Toronto, Villanova University, Fuel Cell Technologies Program, Texas A and M University, University of Hong Kong, Universiteit Maastricht, Georgia State University, McGill University, Howard University School of Business, Universiteit van Tilburg, European Research Council (ERC), Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) and Richard A. Mayo Cente...
Investor-stock decoupling in mutual funds
Ferreira, Miguel A.; Massa, Massimo; Matos, PedroFunding: Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management at the Darden School of Business and The European Research Council (ERC); We investigate whether mutual funds whose investors and stocks are decoupled (i.e., investor location does not coincide with that of the stock holdings) benefit from a natural hedge as they have fewer outflows during market downturns and fewer inflows during upturns. Using a sample of e...
Do locals know better?
Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, Pedro; Pereira, João Pedro; Pires, PedroFunding: Inquire Europe, FCT-Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia (UID/ECO/00124/2013) e POR Lisboa (Lisboa-01-0145-FEDER-007722); We compare the performance of local versus foreign institutional investors using a comprehensive data set of equity holdings in 32 countries during the 2000–2010 period. We find that foreign institutions perform as well as local institutions on average, but only domestic institutions ...
Are foreign investors locusts?
Bena, Jan; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, Pedro; Pires, PedroFunding: European Research Council (ERC); Batten Institute; Batten Institute; Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management at Darden School of Business; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. "Close funding text: the authors acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council (ERC), the Batten Institute and the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management at the Darden Sch...