Indivíduos similares mantêm relações pois assim o preferem (homofilia em preferências) ou porque se encontram com mais frequência (homofilia em encontros)? O presente artigo estuda a identificação e estimação de um jogo ...

Embora sanções sejam relevantes para explicar decisões de default e variáveis econômicas relacionadas, reputação também importa nesse contexto. Nesse trabalho nós propomos uma extensão do modelo quantitativo de default ...

We study the long-run impact of the adoption of macroprudential tools. We derive a dynamic general equilibrium model featuring endogenous TFP change and allowing banks to choose their balance sheet structure endogenously. ...

This work contributes to the literature of human capital formation by estimating the impact of early childhood investment (by means of preschool attendance) over cognitive skill development. Using a longitudinal panel ...

Asset-backed securities were widely traded. Arguably, this happened because they were complicated claims, in the sense that it was very costly to assess their fundamental value. Here, we show that if this is the case, then ...

Ao tirarmos proveito das diferentes datas de lançamento de plataformas de compartilhamento de veículos particulares, pudemos investigar o efeitos destas na segurança do trânsito, mensurada pelo número de acidentes reportados ...

This Master Thesis consists of one empirical article on the field of Microeconomy. Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) are very popular in many countries around the world, including Brazil. The Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro ...

Coordination failures are one of the possible reasons why economies suffer during a recession and why they take long time to recover. This work studies a macroeconomic model with endogenous hazard rates that captures in a ...

I analyze a dynamic coordination model under quasi-hyperbolic discounting. The main result is that present bias can induce a society to coordinate efficiently. When considering a transition from network A to B, higher ...

We aim to evaluate the effects of Brazil’s Family Health Strategy (FHS), a large-scale community-based health intervention, on educational outcomes during primary and secondary education.We use student-level data and adopt ...