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Os seminários da EPGE apresentam artigos acadêmicos dos pesquisadores da Escola e de outros centros brasileiros e internacionais.
FGV EPGE - Seminários de Pesquisa Econômica
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A competitive growth model with endogenous fertility
1998-01-15This paper investigates the interaction between endogenous fertility behavior and the distribution of income and wealth arnong farnilies in a competitive market economy. We construct a growth model in which altruistic ... -
The evolution of international output differences (1960-2000) : from factor to productivity
2004-11-11This article presents a group of exercises of leveI and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-collntry data from 1960 to :2000. It is shown that at least llntil 197.5 factors of production (capital anel ... -
Income composition, endogenous fertility and schooling investments in children
2001-03-22This paper studies how the eomposition of ineome between mothers and fathers affeets fertility and sehooling investments in ehildren, using data from the 1976 and 1996 PNAD, a Brazilian household survey. Ineome composition ... -
Firms?: heterogeneity, organizations, power and trade
2006-04-06This paper develops a theory which investigates the two-way relationship between the internaI organization of the firm and market competition.We introduce heterogenous firms with internal hierarchies in a Knlgman (1980) ... -
Monopolies life cycle, bureaucratization, and Schumpeterian growth
1999-06-17This paper analyzes the links between the internaI organization of firms and macroeconomic growth. We present a Schumpeterian growth model in which firms face dynamic agency costs. These agency costs are due to the formation ... -
Labor supply, risk aversion and economic refrom in China
1998-02-05Economic reform in China has created a small, but fast-growing private sector that has spurred rapid productivity growth. Growth of the private sector is predicated upon continued labor movements away from state-run ... -
A notion of subgame perfect nash equilibrium under knightian uncertainty
1997-10-09We define a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium under Knightian uncertainty for two players, by means of a recursive backward induction procedure. We prove an extension of the Zermelo-von Neumann-Kuhn Theorem for games of ... -
Renegociação da dívida interna mobiliária : uma proposta
1992-09-29This article develops arguments in favor of recomposing the time to maturityof the domestic public bond's debt and presents calcul.ations on the amount of tax required by different terms of payment of that debt, assuming ... -
Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
2002-11-14From 1988 to 1995, when trade liberalization was implemented in Brazil, relative earnings of skilled workers decreased. In this paper, we investigate the role of trade liberalization in explaining these relative earnings ... -
Formation and destruction of coalition groups under economic growth
2000-11-09This paper introduces a model economy in which formation of coalition groups under technological progress is generated endogenously. The coalition formation depends crucially on the rate of arrival of new technologies. In ... -
Especulative (sic) attack on exchange rate target zone regime : the uncertainty case
1995-05-25We present a continuous time target zone model of speculative attacks. Contrary to most of the literature that considers the certainty case, i.e., agents know for sure the Central Bank behavior in the future, we build ... -
Effects of trade policy on technology adoption and investment
1999-10-14This paper studies the consequences of trade policy for the adoption of new technologies. It develops a dynamic international trade model with two sectors. Workers in manufacturing decide if new technologies are used, ... -
Stabilization, volatility and the equilibrium real exchange rate
1995-11-23In a general equilibrium model. we show that the value of the equilibrium real exchange rate is affected by its own volatility. Risk averse exporters. that make their exporting decision before observing the realization of ...
