Esta tese é composta de três ensaios relacionados a economia brasileira. O primeiro deles estuda a evolução da incerteza fiscal, bem como os seus efeitos e mecanismos de transmissão sobre os agregados macroeconômicos. O ...

This dissertation consists of three essays in Macro-Finance. The first two papers study tail risk in the hedge fund industry, and the last paper investigates the effects of fiscal irresponsibility in a monetary union under ...

The knowledge of the current state of the economy is crucial for policy makers, economists and analysts. However, a key economic variable, the gross domestic product (GDP), are typically colected on a quartely basis and ...

This thesis aims on the impact evaluation of the Pacifying Police Units policy, incorporating the causality relations through differences-in-differences regressions with multiple specifications in order to measure the ...

Há um debate clássico entre economistas brasileiros sobre o papel da taxa de câmbio no processo de crescimento econômico. Alguns argumentam que a boa performance econômica de certos países está diretamente associada às ...

This thesis studies price-setting models and analyzes their macroeconomic im- plications. In the rst two chapters I study general models in which rms pricing decisions are a¤ected by menu costs and information costs. In ...

This dissertation is composed of three articles. Two of them investigate taxation issues and the third is a paper on savings. Although the subject of analysis is different among them, they all share the com- mon feature ...

Esta tese tem como objetivo principal aproximar a evidencia empirica existente sobre os agregados macroeconomicos com as novas evidencias empiricas baseadas nos micro dados de precos ao consumidor, tendo como base os modelos ...

This thesis is dedicated to study of tax schedule. I investigate how a tax schedule could affect the individuals’ choice and consequently the resources of the country. I show how a tax schedule induce the individuals’ ...

This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of elderly American males and investigates the factors that may account for the changes in retirement ...