Listagem por autor "Terra, Maria Cristina T."
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Economic geography and wages in Brazil: Evidence from micro-data
2010This paper estimates the impact of market and supplier access on wage disparities across Brazilian states, incorporating the control for individual characteristics into the new economic geography methodology. We estimate ... -
Elections and exchange rate policy cycles
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Electoral cycles through lobbying
2010In this paper, we build a framework where the interplay between the lobby power of special interest groups and the voting power of the majority of the population leads to political business cycles. We apply our setup to ... -
Finance and changing trade patterns in Brazil
1999-09-24 -
Índice de controle de capitais: uma análise da legislação e seu impacto sobre o fluxo de capital no Brasil no período 1990-2000
2006-12-01Cardoso and Goldfajn (1997) build an index of capital control for Brazil for the period 1988 to 1995, and they study the impact of the index on the capital flows. This paper computes the same index for the period 1990-2000 ... -
Multiple equilibria and protectionism
1994-01-17In a nonnative approach, I analyze trade policies when the industrial sector genentes positive extemalities in production, and there are adjustments costs to changing production from one sector to the other. Protectionist ... -
The political economy of exchange rate in Brazil
2007-10-01This paper reviews part of the political economy literature on exchange rate policy relevant to understanding the political motivations behind the Brazilian exchange rate policy. We shall first examine the distributive ... -
The political economy of exchange rate policy in Brazil: 1964-1999
1999-01-01This paper was developed as part of a broader research program on the political economy of exchange rate policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions from Jeff Frieden, ... -
Purchasing power parity: the choice of price index
2005-04-01Looking closely at the PPP argument, it states that the currencies purchasing power should not change when comparing the same basket goods across countries, and these goods should all be tradable. Hence, if PPP is valid ... -
Real exchange rate misalignments
2003-08-02This paper characterizes episodes of real appreciations and depreciations for a sample of 85 countries, approximately from 1960 to 1998. First, the equilibrium real exchange rate series are constructed for each country ... -
Sources of comparative advantages in Brazil
2007-12-01Based on the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model, this paper investigates relative factor abundance in Brazil, as revealed by its international trade. We study two different time periods: one characterized by high trade barriers ... -
Special interests and political business cycles
2005-08-01In this paper we bridge the gap between special interest politics and political business cycle literature. We build a framework where the interplay between the lobby power of special interest groups and the voting power ... -
Stabilization, volatility and the equilibrium real exchange rate
1995-11-23In a general equilibrium model. we show that the value of the equilibrium real exchange rate is affected by its own volatility. Risk averse exporters. that make their exporting decision before observing the realization of ... -
Tariff design with varying degrees of commitment
1999-02This paper provides a novel perspective on the dynamics of infant industry protection. Trade policies are analyzed when the industrial sector generates positive externalities in production, and there are adjustment costs ... -
Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
2002-11-14From 1988 to 1995, when trade liberalization was implemented in Brazil, relative earnings of skilled workers decreased. In this paper, we investigate the role of trade liberalization in explaining these relative earnings ... -
Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
2005-04-01Skilled labor earnings differentials decreased during the trade liberalization implemented in Brazil from 1988 to 1995. This paper investigates the role of trade liberalization in explaining these relative earnings movements. ... -
Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
2002-10-23From 1988 to 1995, when trade liberalization was implemented in Brazil, relative earnings of skilled workers decreased. In this paper, we investigate the role of trade liberalization in explaining these relative earnings ...
