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Economic Consequences of Educational Backwardness in Twentieth-Century Brazil
(2019)
This paper evaluates the economic impact of alternative policies for investing in public education in Brazil between 1933 and 1985. It tests the hypothesis that increased spending on schooling beginning in the 1930s would ...
Desafios da política fiscal para a retomada do crescimento: a Macroeconomia da política fiscal - vídeo
(2017-06-28)
No dia 31 de maio de 2017, o FGV IBRE realizou o seminário Desafios da política fiscal para a retomada do crescimento. No terceiro painel do evento, “A Macroeconomia da política fiscal”, compuseram a mesa, o Professor da ...
Asia versus America Latina 4/5
(2015-12-08)
Seminário realizado no dia 14/08 em homenagem aos 70 anos do Professor Fernando de Holanda Barbosa. Durante o evento, os diversos convidados abordaram sobre as contribuições do Professor Fernando de Holanda Barbosa no temas ...
Distortions in the investment goods sector and productivity decline
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2014-08-14)
We study the impact of distortions in the investment goods sector on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We develop a two-sector neo-classical growth model in which TFP in the capital goods sector relative to TFP ...
Globalization and the Industrial Revolution (revised)
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2014-06-13)
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution. We calibrate a two-good and two-sector overlapping generations model to Englandís historical development and ...
On the evolution of TFP in Latin America
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2011-08-12)
Due to several policy distortions, including import-substitution industrialization, widespread government intervention and both domestic and international competitive barriers, there has been a general presumption that ...
Redesenhando o mapa eleitoral do Brasil: uma proposta de reforma política incremental
(Centro de Estudos de Opiniao Publica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2011-06-01)
This article presents a proposal for an incremental reform of the electoral system of the Chamber of Deputies. The incremental nature of the proposal rests on the assumption that this political system is a complex and ...
Globalization and the Industrial Revolution
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2010-10-21)
This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution, allowing the economy to shift resources to the manufacture without facing food and raw materials shortage. ...
The evolution of TFP in Latin America: high productivity when distortions were high?
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2010-01-07)
Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been a general presumption that Latin America has been much less productive than the leading economies in the last decades. In ...
The effects of external and internal shocks on total factor productivity
(2010)
This paper examines structural changes that occur in the total factor productivity (TFP) within countries. It is possible that some episodes of high economic growth or economic decline are associated with permanent ...
