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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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Implicações de curto e longo prazo das estimativas do estoque e da renda do capital
2001-09-13Este trabalho procura abordar as consequências empíricas e teóricas associadas a possíveis diferenças entre o valor do estoque de capital e o valor do investimento associado a este capital. Com base em evidências empíricas ... -
A restatement of the welafare costs of inflation. The wast of scarce resources in the manufacturing , banking and household sectors
2001-05-31Lucas (2000) estimates that the US welfare costs of inflation are around 1% of GDP. This measurement is consistent with a speci…c distorting channel in terms of the Bailey triangle under the demand for monetary base schedule ... -
União monetária Européia: diferenças no mecanismo de transmissão monetária
2001-04-19This study identifies differences in the monetary policy transmission mechanism across countries in the euro area. It is argued that part of the differences in the response of economic activity to monetary policy during ... -
Monopoly rights can reduce income big time
2003-03-13We study a two–sector version of the neoclassical growth model with coalitions of factor suppliers in the capital producing sectors. We show that if the coalitions have monopoly rights, then they block the adoption of the ... -
The marginal cost of funds from public sector borrowing
2004-03-25An expression for the welfare cost of a marginal increase in the public debt is derived using a simple AK endogenous growth model. This measure of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) can be interpreted as the marginal ... -
Nonlinear pricing beyond the demand profile approach
2008-01-18Wilson [16] introduced a general methodology to deal with monopolistic pricing in situations where customers have private information on their tastes (‘types’). It is based on the demand profile of customers: For each ... -
Exposing corrupt politicians: the effects of Brazil's publicly released audits on electoral
2007-04-12This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountabil- ity. Based upon the results of Brazil's recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred ... -
Testing for super-exogeneity in the presence of common deterministic shifts
2001-11-22This paper introduces the concept of common deterministic shifts (CDS). This concept is simple, intuitive and relates to the common structure of shifts or policy interventions. We propose a Reduced Rank technique to ... -
Reelection incentives and political corruption : evidence from Brazil’s municipal audit reports
2005-08-11This paper uses a unique dataset of political corruption, constructed from municipal audit reports obtained from Brazil’s randomized anti-corruption program, to test whether reelection incentives affect the level of rent ... -
Work, study, both or neither? time allocation of Brazilian teenagers
2001-05-10Labor force participation among youth is extremely high in Brazil when compared to countries with a similar economic background. In Argentina and Chile labor force participation, among those with 10 to 14 years old, is ... -
Sustainable miracles: protection and competition in the Brazilian oil industry
2005-06-09It is often suggested that competition improves productivity, however, the underlying support for this idea is surprisingly thin. This paper presents a case study examining the e ects of a change in the competitive environment ... -
Inglorious revolution: sovereign debt, tropical credibility, and financial underdevelopment in imperial Brazil
2005-03-03In 1824 the creation of institutions that constrained the monarch’s ability to unilaterally tax, spend, and debase the currency put Brazil on a path toward a revolution in public finance, roughly analogous to the financial ...
