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Miguel Fonseca, University of Porto — Portugal, António Mendonça and José Passos, School of Economics and Management-Technical University of Lisbon — Portugal, Outward FDI Effects on the Portuguese Trade Balance: 1996-2007

George A. Vamvoukas, Athens University of Economics and Business — Greece, Dynamics of the Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Trade Balance: Ireland