After implementing the inflation-targeting framework, the Brazilian Central Bank has developed a survey of market forecasts for inflation and other macroeconomic variables as a tool to guide the monetary policy. The ranking ...

There is a strong autoregressive component on the level of credit in the Brazilian economy. Bank´s policy of lending is the most relevant variable to determine de level of credit in Brazil. Variables in government control, ...

During the last two decades, the private equity and venture capital industry role in Brazil has significantly increased, with the expansion of resources under management and number of transactions. At the same time, the ...

The reputation-building model of political behavior suggests that an incumbent who wishes to keep his appointment through reelection has incentives to align his actions with voters’ preferences, in detriment of his own. ...

This work aims to investigate illiteracy in Brazil using new literacy measures initially developed by Basu and Foster (1998). We evaluate the proximate and isolated literacy profile of the Brazilian population and also ...

Brazil adopted an inflation targeting regime in 1999, after a four-year period of fixed exchange rate. Since then, the regime was marked by several episodes of unfulfillment of the target, what indicates that the regime ...

This work analyses a panel of 52 countries from 1990 to 2007 to understand whether the real exchange rate misalignment explains the decrease in world inflation when compared to the adoption by 25 countries of the sample ...

This paper aims at identifying the effects of historical inequality in the Brazilian municipalities formation on the actual conditions of land and income inequalities and on institutions quality. In particular, we use, ...

This dissertation evaluates the impact of education on income of the young Brazilian workforce, following the tradition of equations of wages determination. It differs from the other existing studies in the area carried ...