Browsing by Author "Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão"
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The EU-Mercosol free trade agreement: quantifying mutual gains
2006-12We identify trade in goods opportunities in a EU-Mercosul free trade area. Gains for Mercosul are rather concentrated, being mostly associated with a few agricultural commodities which face high protection barriers. EU ... -
The EU-Mercosul free trade agreement: Quantifying mutual gains
2004-12-01We identify trade in goods opportunities in a EU-Mercosul free trade area. Gains for Mercosul are rather concentrated, being mostly associated to a few agricultural commodities nowadays facing high protection barriers. EU ... -
Exchange rate volatility in high inflation economies: an econometric study of Poland and Brazil
1994This paper analyses exchange rate series for Poland and Brazil. The Polish series, related to the period soon after the first liberalizing measures, presents a high volatility which is not accounted for by some selected ... -
Exploratory semiparametric analysis of two-dimensional diffusions in finance
2000-03-01We examine bivariate extensions of Aït-Sahalia’s approach to the estimation of univariate diffusions. Our message is that extending his idea to a bivariate setting is not straightforward. In higher dimensions, as opposed ... -
Finding a maximum skewness portfolio - A general solution to three-moments portfolio choice
2001-09-10Considering the three first moments and allowing short sales, the efficient portfolios set for n risky assets and a riskless one is found, supposing that agents like odd moments and dislike even ones. Analytical formulas ... -
Foreign direct investment spillovers in Portugal: additional lessons from a country study
2006-06-01This 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 ... -
Foreign direct investment spillovers: additional lessons from a country study
2002-09-01We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity of domestic firms, using sectoral data for Portugal. An improved analysis takes into account the most appropriate interval for the technological ... -
Foreign direct investment spillovers: what can we learn from portuguese data?
2000-01-01This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity performance of domestic firms in Portugal. The data comprise nine manufacturing sectors for the period 1992-95. Relatively to previous ... -
Foreign funding to an emerging market: the Monetary Premium Theory and the Brazilian Case, 1991 - 1998
2002-10-23We develop a framework to explain the private capital flows between the rest of the world and an emerging economy. The model, based on the monetary premium theory, relates an endogenous supply of foreign capitals to an ... -
The future of (non-)global governance
2017The title of this paper sounds preposterous, and indeed is. There are many reasons for this qualification and, pre-empting criticisms, I mention three main ones. The first is that any exercise in futurology bears a touch ... -
The gains from MERCOSUL: a general equilibrium, imperfect competition evaluation
1997This paper presents general equilibrium evaluations of the MERCOSUL. Three scenarios are examined, varying from increased world regionalism to an optimistic multilateral situation. Welfare gains are significant for Uruguay, ... -
Global value chains as a regional integration tool: the case of the renewables industry in South America
2016-11This study aims at the identification of new paths, starting from concrete productive associations, that could lead to closer production and consumption patterns among South American countries. The last two decades have ... -
Government actions to support coffee producers - an investigation of possible measures from the European Union
2002-04-01We outline possible actions to be adopted by the European Union to ensure a better share of total coffee revenues to producers in developing countries. The way to this translates, ultimately, in producers receiving a fair ... -
Introducing higher moments in the CAPM: some basic ideas
1999-11-01We show how to include in the CAPM moments of any order, extending the mean-variance or mean-variance-skewness versions available until now. Then, we present a simple way to modify the formulae, in order to avoid the ... -
Investimento direto estrangeiro no Mercosul: uma visão geral
2005-08-01Esse 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, ... -
Is China a Northern Partner to Mercosul?
2006-06-01We 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 ...
