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Os seminários da EPGE apresentam artigos acadêmicos dos pesquisadores da Escola e de outros centros brasileiros e internacionais.
FGV EPGE - Seminários de Pesquisa Econômica
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The distribution of average and marginal effective tax rates in European Union member states
2002-09-19Macro-based summary indicators of effective tax burdens do not capture differences in effective tax rates facing different sub-groups of the population. They also cannot provide information on the level or distribution of ... -
Social networks and the paradox of voting
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Avaliando o PLANFOR : o programa do sindicato dos metalúrgicos de São Paulo
2002-04-18Este trabalho faz uma avaliação de impacto do programa de treinamento conduzido pelo Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos de São Paulo. Trata-se de um estudo não experimental que pretende contribuir para o acúmulo de conhecimento ... -
Tax reform under fiscal stress: a CGE analysis of the Brazilian tax reform
2002-01-16In spite of a general agreement over the distortion imposed by the current Brazilian tax system, attempts to reform it during the last decade have faced several restrictions to its implementation. Two of these restrictions ... -
Imaginary money
2001-10-11This paper considers price setting in pure units of account, linked to the means of payment through managed parities. If prices are sticky in the units in which they are set, parity changes may facilitate equilibrium ... -
The effects of gender segregation at the establishment level: an empirical analysis using a panel of matched employer-employee data
2006-10-19This paper studies the relationship between segregation of women across establish- ments and the wages of males and females. To investigate this issue empirically we use a panel of matched employer-employee data from Brazil. ... -
The market of academic journals : empirical evidence from data on French libraries
2007-02-01This paper analyzes the demand and cost structure of the French market of academic journals, taking into account its intermediary role between researchers, who are both producers and consumers of knowledge. This two sidedness ... -
A consumption CAPM with a reference level
2006-03-30We study an intertemporal asset pricing model in which a representative consumer maximizes expected utility derived from both the ratio of his consumption to some reference level and this level itself. If the reference ... -
A risk management approach to emerging market's sovereign debt sustainability with an application to Brazilian data
2004-05-27In this paper we study the question of debt sustainability from a risk management perspective. The debt accumulation equation for any country involves variables that are stochastic and closely intertwined. When these aspects ... -
Bens credenciais e poder de mercado: um estudo econométrico da indústria farmacêutica brasileira
2001-04-26The Brazilian pharmaceutical industry has always been targeted by the society, due to the ethical drugs’ high weight in the families’ consumption budgets (especially within the poorer ones) and price raises traditionally ... -
Economic landscapes, what are they? an application to the Brazilian economy and to the sugar cane complex
2001-06-07In assessing the economic impact of a sector or group of sectors on a single or multiregional economy, input-output analysis has proven to be a popular method. . However, there has a problem in displaying all the information ... -
From public to private: the performance of former public workers in the Brazilian labor market
2002-06-20This paper analyzes the placement in the private sector of a subset of Brazilian public-sector employees. This group left public employment in the mid-1990’s through a voluntary severance program. This paper contrasts their ... -
On the impossibility of prisoner's dilemmas in adversarial preference games
2002-05-29Why don't agents cooperate when they both stand to gain? This question ranks among the most fundamental in the social sciences. Explanations abound. Among the most compelling are various configurations of the prisonerís ... -
Financial globalization and economic growth
2005-04-07Capital mobility leads to a speed of convergence smaller in an open economy than in a closed economy. This is related to the presence of two capitals, produced with specific technologies, and where one of the capitals is ... -
Mobility, information, and bequest : the other side of the equal division puzzle
2005-07-21There is substantial empirical evidence that parental bequests to their children are typically equal in the US – a regularity inconsistent with the predictions of standard optimizing bequest models. The prior explanation ... -
Contracting with repeated moral hazard and private evaluations
2005-11-29A repeated moral hazard setting in which the Principal privately observes the Agent’s output is studied. It is shown that there is no loss from restricting the analysis to contracts in which the Agent is supposed to exert ... -
Welfare and growth effects of alternative fiscal rules for infrastructure investment in Brazil
2006-05-04This article studies the interplay between fiscal rules, public investment and growth in Brazil. It is investigated if it would make sense to raise public investment and, if so, under which fiscal rule it is best to do it ...
