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    • Commodity price shocks and misattribution of responsibility for the economy: observational and experimental evidence 

      Campello, Daniela; Zucco Jr., Cesar
      2018-07-11
      This paper examines correction of misattribution bias in the context of retrospective voting. We first report observational evidence from Brazil and Ecuador that is compatible with the existence of misattribution bias (i.e. ...
    • Matching estimators with few treated and many control observations 

      Ferman, Bruno
      2018-09
      We analyze the properties of matching estimators when there are few treated, but many control observations. We show that, under standard assumptions, the nearest neighbor matching estimator for the average treatment effect ...
    • Risk externalities 

      Iachan, Felipe Saraiva; Silva, Dejanir H.
      2018-09-26
      Current analysis of macro-prudential policy has largely focused on excessive leverage and fire sales, while abstracting from firm-level risk and portfolio decisions. We show that these matter for the design of optimal ...
    • The choice channel of financial innovation 

      Iachan, Felipe Saraiva; Nenov, Plamen T.; Simsek, Alp
      2018-11-15
      Financial innovation in recent decades has expanded portfolio choice. We investigate how greater choice a¤ects investors.savings and asset returns. We establish a choice channel by which greater portfolio choice increases ...
    • Measuring the welfare of intermediaries in vertical markets 

      Donna, Javier; Pereira, Pedro; Pires, Tiago; Andrade, André
      2018-12-10
      We empirically investigate the welfare of intermediaries in oligopolistic markets, where intermediaries offer additional services. We exploit the unique circumstance that, in our empirical setting, consumers can purchase ...
    • Legal teaching and the reconceptualizing of the state: discussing global law programs 

      Ghirardi, José Garcez
      2019
      Globalization has made traditional readings of the State deeply problematical. The vanishing of old frontiers and the building of new walls, which characterize the so-called new global order, have become the object of ...
    • Institutional specialization 

      Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos; Sheedy, Kevin D.
      2019-01
      This paper presents a theory of institutional specialization in which some countries uphold the rule of law while others choose extractive institutions, even though they are ex-ante identical.This is borne out of two key ...
    • Price discovery and market microstructure noise 

      Fernandes, Marcelo; Dias, Gustavo Fruet; Scherrer, Cristina Mabel
      2019-01-21
      Using a continuous-time price discovery model, we show that the standard econometric framework typically yields inconsistent estimates of the price discovery measures in the presence of market microstructure noise due the ...
    • The role of resource misallocation in structural change 

      Teles, Vladimir Kuhl; Vasconcelos, Rafael da Silva
      2019-02-27
      We develop a multi-sector model of economic growth to explain the distinct patterns of structural change in manufacturing sectors in industrialized countries and those in developing and emerging industrial countries. To ...
    • On the road to social mobility? affirmative action and major choice 

      Estevan, Fernanda; Gall, Thomas; Morin, Louis-Philippe
      2019-06-14
      Around the world, students from a disadvantaged background are underrepresented in prestigious and lucrative fields of study, such as medicine and STEM. We know little about whether universities can affect individuals' ...
    • Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing 

      Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L.; Bickwit, Grant
      2019-07-01
      We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies ...
    • O impacto econômico de Open Insurance 

      Demais unidades::Rede de Pesquisa
      2021-11-29
      No dia 29 de novembro de 2021, o Instituto de Inovação em Seguros e Resseguros da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV IISR) realizou um seminário on-line sobre os potenciais impactos econômicos da implementação do Open Insurance ...