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A Importância dos Rendimentos Crescentes à Escalano Processo de Aglomeração em Portugal: Uma Análise Empírica não Linear

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  • Vitor João Pereira Martinho

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Neste trabalho procura-se analisar o processo de aglomeração nas regiões portuguesas, utilizando os modelos da Nova Geografia Económica. Nestes modelos a ideia base é que onde há rendimentos crescentes à escala e baixos custos de transporte, há aglomeração. Com o objectivo de confirmar a existência de rendimentos crescentes à escala e de baixos custos de transporte, em Portugal, estruturouse este estudo em cinco partes. Na primeira parte fazse uma breve introdução, onde são referidas algumas contribuições teóricas, relacionadas com as áreas da aglomeração que geralmente estão associadas à Nova Geografia Económica; na segunda parte são apresentados os fundamentos teóricos dos modelos da Nova Geografia Económica; na terceira parte são examinados os dados estatísticos considerados, obtidos na base de dados Regio (2000) das estatísticas do Eurostat, para o período de 1987 a 1994 e nas Contas Regionais (2003) do INE, para o período de 1995 a 1999; na quarta parte são exibidas as estimações realizadas com formas reduzidas não lineares dos modelos referidos anteriormente; e na quinta parte são enunciadas as principais ilações obtidas com a realização deste trabalho. De referir, como conclusão sumária, que com este trabalho provou-se a existência de baixos custos de transporte e de rendimentos crescentes à escala nas regiões portuguesas e como tal a existência de aglomeração regional em Portugal.

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  • Vitor João Pereira Martinho, 2004. "A Importância dos Rendimentos Crescentes à Escalano Processo de Aglomeração em Portugal: Uma Análise Empírica não Linear," RPER, Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional, issue 5, pages 35-56, April.
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    DOI: 10.59072/rper.vi5.122
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