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A unified view on the optimal solutions to the threemoments portfolio problem
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2022-09)
This paper brings new results and deeper insights in characterizing the set of solutions to the portfolio selection problem for n risky assets and a riskless one, considering the three first moments and allowing short ...
Trade and poverty in latin american countries: conceptual and methodological challenges
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2008-02-28)
This paper addresses topics - either relevant or confusing or needing more attention - related to measuring the trade and poverty nexus. It sheds a critical light on the existing material and suggests needed research lines. ...
Are CGE Models still useful in economic policy making?
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2008-02-28)
This paper develops background considerations to help better framing the results of a CGE exercise. Three main criticisms are usually addressed to CGE efforts. First, they are too aggregate, their conclusions failing to ...
The diversity of diversity: further methodological considerations on the use of the concept in cultural economics
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-10-01)
The implications of diversity still raise confusion in the cultural debate. We address them from both a formal and conceptual viewpoints, putting in check the validity of some arguments. We conclude that: measuring diversity ...
Dois ensaios sobre diversidade cultural e o comércio de serviços
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-09-01)
Is China a Northern Partner to Mercosul?
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-06-01)
We contrast Free Trade Areas involving Mercosul and the EU25, the US and China, respectively, using a new CGE model and associated database. Roughly, the China FTA lies halfway the other two, a bias towards the US pattern ...
Foreign direct investment spillovers in Portugal: additional lessons from a country study
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-06-01)
This paper investigates the impact of FDI on the productivity of Portuguese manufacturing sectors. Model specification is improved by considering the choice of the most appropriate interval of the technological gap for ...
Integration options for mercosul - an investigation Uusing the AMIDA Model
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-01-01)
Investimento direto estrangeiro no Mercosul: uma visão geral
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2005-08-01)
Esse texto aborda, sob uma visão abrangente, a questão do investimento direto estrangeiro (IDE) no Mercosul. Discute, de início, duas medidas de base, imprescindíveis para se pensar em termos sérios o investimento direto, ...
Trade and infrastructure: evidences from the Andean Community
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2005-03-08)
This paper presents evidence on the key role of infrastructure in the Andean Community trade patterns. Three distinct but related gravity models of bilateral trade are used. The first model aims at identifying the importance ...