This article shows, using R software, how to seasonally adjust a time series using the X-13-ARIMA-SEATS program and the seasonal package developed by Christoph Sax. In addition to presenting step-by-step seasonal adjustment, ...

O pacote BETS (sigla para Brazilian Economic Time Series) para o R (R Core Team, 2012) fornece, de maneira descomplicada, as mais relevantes séries temporais econômicas do Brasil e diversas ferramentas para analisá-las. O ...

Is US presidential candidate Donald Trump right when he claims that the Chinese are causing serious damage to American workers? Research by João Paulo Pessoa analyses the impact of the recent massive increase in China’s ...

In this paper, we investigate the e ect of subsidies to promote Green Jobs upon rm dy-namics. We do so by focusing on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, a feature of the Kyoto Protocol that allowed developed ...

Climate change and the impacts of extreme weather events represent a major threat to company operations and supply chains. However, there are few studies regarding climate change risks to firms and their adaptation responses. ...

O objetivo deste artigo é investigar a evolução do mercado de casamento e o seu impacto na distribuição de renda no Brasil. A partir da análise de dados dos censos demográficos de 1970 a 2010, encontramos evidências de que ...

Real interest rates in Brazil are still high in any international comparison, even considered that they have declined significantly in the last few years. The main purpose of this paper is not only to update but also extend ...