Browsing by Author "Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão"

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    • Trade and infrastructure: evidences from the Andean Community 

      Acosta Rojas, Gina E.; Calfat, Germán; Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      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 ...

    • Trade and poverty in latin american countries: conceptual and methodological challenges 

      Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      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. ...

    • Trade or investment? location decisions under regional integration 

      Cavalcanti, Marco Antonio Freitas de Hollanda; Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      1995-01
      This paper studies the production and trade patterns that may arise between two different countries if plant location is introduced as a first step in the producers' decision making. A three-stage game is used: the first ...

    • Variáveis intrumentais e o MGM: uso de momentos condicionais 

      Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      2003-11-01
      This text presents how the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) can be used to derive instrumental variables estimators for linear and non-linear models. It makes for a chapter of a work (textbook) in progress.

    • Volatility modelling in the forex market: an empirical evaluation 

      Roche, Bruno B.; Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      1999-10
      We compare three frequently used volatility modelling techniques: GARCH, Markovian switching and cumulative daily volatility models. Our primary goal is to highlight a practical and systematic way to measure the relative ...

    • The world corona changed: preliminary thoughts on the coming world order 

      Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão
      2020-05-04
      This Note draws a few lines of force that may indicate how, once the pandemic is moderately under control, world order and security will re-orient themselves.