Maria Eugénia Mata
Biographic Data
| ID | 161690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Eugénia Mata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Eugénia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mata |
| SIGNATURE | MATA M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0229-3604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reorganizing the Escudo Zone
In the 1960s, the escudo zone, comprising Portugal and its African colonies, countered the trend of European decolonization. The Portuguese state reorganized monetary relations in the empire-state with the help of a new legal framework. The aim of this imperial economic reorganization was to establish a balance of payment relations which was expected to facilitate Portugal's economic modernization and the country's association with liberalizing e…
Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective
The usual idea that European aristocracy lived from land revenue needs to be complemented. Often the aristocracy was not so alien to business as the literature sometimes has claimed. Contrary to the popular image of non-entrepreneurial aristocracy, the to Portuguese nobility financial business was not considered an unsavoury way of life, and aristocrats were actually quite active in business. Trade, brokerage, and profits could provide a very ele…
Economic Globalization and Governance
The Portuguese escudo area in Africa and its lessons for monetary unions
The beginnings of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone (EMZ) in 1961, to promote the economic integration of Portugal and its empire, coincide in time with Mundell’s seminal paper about optimum currency areas. If non-optimality was the cause of the EMZ’s demise, this would suggest that monetary unions are fragile achievements, with little prospect for survival. The EMZ turned out to be a short-lived experiment, with Angola and Mozambique building …
From the great depression to decolonization
The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented higher risk and higher capital rewards. They were…
The Technical and Political Discussion of the Escudo Zone Problems, and the Reform of 1971
Decolonisation and Independence Agreements. Retornados and Difficulties of the Banking System
The Escudo Monetary Zone
The Difficulties in Launching the Escudo Monetary Zone
The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone
Success and failure in portuguese Colonial Africa
Success and failure in portuguese Colonial Africa
Au début du xx e siècle, la direction des entreprises dans le domaine agroalimentaire faisait face à de nombreux défis. Bien qu’il existe une importante littérature sur cette question, le cas du Portugal présente des spécificités qui ont été peu analysées jusqu’à présent. Les pratiques de management utilisées par l’aristocratie dans l’administration territoriale de la métropole ont été transférées dans les colonies africaines pour la gestion des …
From finance to management
Finance is usually considered to be a complex science, made up of unsatisfactory explanations interpreting the mystery and volatility of financial markets. Expectations, the mood of the market, as well as investment strategies to manage diversified portfolios, are intimidating issues for most people even today. This paper describes how early twentieth-century globalisation framed a network of stock exchanges, from local to regional and national s…
Managerial strategies in canning industries
The paper discusses entry barriers in the Portuguese canning industries in the early twentieth century. The most important challenge facing the canning industries was a dependence on unsteady supply of raw material. The available technology, branding trademarks, product differentiation and product quality, versus abundance or scarcity of resources to be used as inputs and international trade presented contradictory effects on entry barriers. Dete…
As Bees Attracted to Honey
In Portugal, road and railway construction has led to the relocation of many businesses – and jobs – to the coastal region of the country. This article examines that phenomenon from the combined aspect of economic history and science, showing how transport infrastructure has influenced the pattern of concentration and location of jobs, especially in the industrial sector. The research focuses on the role of transport facilities in attracting indu…
The role of implicit contracts
This article studies financial schemes for building public works in the 1840s. The study of the Portuguese case clearly illustrates the importance of implicit contracts with governments in peripheral Europe, shedding light on solutions for financing the provision of public goods. Building roads and railways seems to have been the fruit of an implicit contract behind the tobacco monopoly in a country involved in social turmoil and civil wars. Repu…
From pioneering mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state
Portugal, un reino pobre y pequeño, llegó a ser un Estado Mercantil pionero gracias a sus descubrimientos. ¿Cuándo estableció sus instituciones fiscales como potencia mundial? ¿Una potencia marítima capaz de ser punta de lanza de la conexión permanente entre Europa y la India fue capaz de establecer unas instituciones fiscales modernas que garantizaran un presupuesto Estatal estable? El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo el pasado imperial…
Success and failure in portuguese Colonial Africa
Au début du xx e siècle, la direction des entreprises dans le domaine agroalimentaire faisait face à de nombreux défis. Bien qu’il existe une importante littérature sur cette question, le cas du Portugal présente des spécificités qui ont été peu analysées jusqu’à présent. Les pratiques de management utilisées par l’aristocratie dans l’administration territoriale de la métropole ont été transférées dans les colonies africaines pour la gestion des …
Managerial strategies in canning industries
The paper discusses entry barriers in the Portuguese canning industries in the early twentieth century. The most important challenge facing the canning industries was a dependence on unsteady supply of raw material. The available technology, branding trademarks, product differentiation and product quality, versus abundance or scarcity of resources to be used as inputs and international trade presented contradictory effects on entry barriers. Dete…
As Bees Attracted to Honey
In Portugal, road and railway construction has led to the relocation of many businesses – and jobs – to the coastal region of the country. This article examines that phenomenon from the combined aspect of economic history and science, showing how transport infrastructure has influenced the pattern of concentration and location of jobs, especially in the industrial sector. The research focuses on the role of transport facilities in attracting indu…
Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective
The usual idea that European aristocracy lived from land revenue needs to be complemented. Often the aristocracy was not so alien to business as the literature sometimes has claimed. Contrary to the popular image of non-entrepreneurial aristocracy, the to Portuguese nobility financial business was not considered an unsavoury way of life, and aristocrats were actually quite active in business. Trade, brokerage, and profits could provide a very ele…
The Portuguese escudo area in Africa and its lessons for monetary unions
The beginnings of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone (EMZ) in 1961, to promote the economic integration of Portugal and its empire, coincide in time with Mundell’s seminal paper about optimum currency areas. If non-optimality was the cause of the EMZ’s demise, this would suggest that monetary unions are fragile achievements, with little prospect for survival. The EMZ turned out to be a short-lived experiment, with Angola and Mozambique building …
From the great depression to decolonization
The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented higher risk and higher capital rewards. They were…
The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone
From pioneering mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state
Portugal, un reino pobre y pequeño, llegó a ser un Estado Mercantil pionero gracias a sus descubrimientos. ¿Cuándo estableció sus instituciones fiscales como potencia mundial? ¿Una potencia marítima capaz de ser punta de lanza de la conexión permanente entre Europa y la India fue capaz de establecer unas instituciones fiscales modernas que garantizaran un presupuesto Estatal estable? El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo el pasado imperial…
As Bees Attracted to Honey
In Portugal, road and railway construction has led to the relocation of many businesses – and jobs – to the coastal region of the country. This article examines that phenomenon from the combined aspect of economic history and science, showing how transport infrastructure has influenced the pattern of concentration and location of jobs, especially in the industrial sector. The research focuses on the role of transport facilities in attracting indu…
The role of implicit contracts
This article studies financial schemes for building public works in the 1840s. The study of the Portuguese case clearly illustrates the importance of implicit contracts with governments in peripheral Europe, shedding light on solutions for financing the provision of public goods. Building roads and railways seems to have been the fruit of an implicit contract behind the tobacco monopoly in a country involved in social turmoil and civil wars. Repu…
Managerial strategies in canning industries
The paper discusses entry barriers in the Portuguese canning industries in the early twentieth century. The most important challenge facing the canning industries was a dependence on unsteady supply of raw material. The available technology, branding trademarks, product differentiation and product quality, versus abundance or scarcity of resources to be used as inputs and international trade presented contradictory effects on entry barriers. Dete…
From finance to management
Finance is usually considered to be a complex science, made up of unsatisfactory explanations interpreting the mystery and volatility of financial markets. Expectations, the mood of the market, as well as investment strategies to manage diversified portfolios, are intimidating issues for most people even today. This paper describes how early twentieth-century globalisation framed a network of stock exchanges, from local to regional and national s…
Success and failure in portuguese Colonial Africa
Success and failure in portuguese Colonial Africa
Au début du xx e siècle, la direction des entreprises dans le domaine agroalimentaire faisait face à de nombreux défis. Bien qu’il existe une importante littérature sur cette question, le cas du Portugal présente des spécificités qui ont été peu analysées jusqu’à présent. Les pratiques de management utilisées par l’aristocratie dans l’administration territoriale de la métropole ont été transférées dans les colonies africaines pour la gestion des …
The Technical and Political Discussion of the Escudo Zone Problems, and the Reform of 1971
Decolonisation and Independence Agreements. Retornados and Difficulties of the Banking System
The Escudo Monetary Zone
The Difficulties in Launching the Escudo Monetary Zone
The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone
Economic Globalization and Governance
The Portuguese escudo area in Africa and its lessons for monetary unions
The beginnings of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone (EMZ) in 1961, to promote the economic integration of Portugal and its empire, coincide in time with Mundell’s seminal paper about optimum currency areas. If non-optimality was the cause of the EMZ’s demise, this would suggest that monetary unions are fragile achievements, with little prospect for survival. The EMZ turned out to be a short-lived experiment, with Angola and Mozambique building …
From the great depression to decolonization
The integration of financial markets was a facet of the increasing globalization of the worldwide economy. The focus in this paper is the business organizational perspective of corporations that operated in Portuguese overseas territories: Distance, climate, lack of trained local labor force, and other difficulties related with cultural differences, required organizational aspects that represented higher risk and higher capital rewards. They were…
Exemplifying aristocratic cross-border entrepreneurship before WWI, from a Portuguese perspective
The usual idea that European aristocracy lived from land revenue needs to be complemented. Often the aristocracy was not so alien to business as the literature sometimes has claimed. Contrary to the popular image of non-entrepreneurial aristocracy, the to Portuguese nobility financial business was not considered an unsavoury way of life, and aristocrats were actually quite active in business. Trade, brokerage, and profits could provide a very ele…
Reorganizing the Escudo Zone
In the 1960s, the escudo zone, comprising Portugal and its African colonies, countered the trend of European decolonization. The Portuguese state reorganized monetary relations in the empire-state with the help of a new legal framework. The aim of this imperial economic reorganization was to establish a balance of payment relations which was expected to facilitate Portugal's economic modernization and the country's association with liberalizing e…
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Portuguese (10 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Market economy (5 works)