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The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects
2017This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many countries and sectors and trade in intermediates, as in ... -
Redistribution with labor markets frictions
2017How does the presence of labor market frictions change optimal redistributive policies? Embedding an otherwise standard Mirrlees’ (1971) economy in a directed search environment we show that optimal Utilitarian (and Rawlsian) ... -
A critical assessment of Brazilian manufacturing competitiveness in foreign markets
2017Purpose – This study aims to examine the competitiveness of firms operating in the emerging economy of Brazil. This study examines the current perception of Brazilian business leaders regarding the level of competitiveness ... -
Are conditional government transfers a politically acceptable form of redistribution?
2017This paper examines whether characteristics of government transfers that do not affect actual levels of redistribution affect support for such transfers. We employ survey experiments in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Turkey ... -
(Miss) representations of third age in the media: stigma and inadequacy in evolving societies
2017This research analyzes how cultural media products such as telenovelas and advertising campaigns portray the third age in an evolving society, and discusses how these representations often antagonize these consumers’ ... -
The unexpected outcome of fiscal rules: the fiscal responsibility law and increases in social spending in municipal Brazil
2017Much work has been done on the impact of fiscal rules on fiscal discipline, usually measured as either changes in budget deficits or debt burdens, but there is little comparative research on the impact of such rules on the ... -
Desenvolvimento territorial rural em perspectiva comparada: Brasil e Argentina
2017No meio rural, o enfoque territorial do desenvolvimento foi adotado em países latino-americanos com a finalidade de oferecerem soluções inovadoras às políticas setoriais e aos desafios da sociedade e da economia, tais como ... -
Atualizando o debate sobre dirigentes públicos no Brasil
2017O texto focaliza o tema dos dirigentes públicos no Brasil, considerados como uma categoria específica, recém alçado à agenda de atenção de pesquisadores e governos. Aqui, tradicionalmente, o debate se voltou aos cargos de ... -
A organização de documentos técnicos de aeronaves à luz da classificação facetada
2017Apresenta uma proposta de classificação de documentos, com base nos princípios da classificação facetada e sua possível aplicabilidade nos documentos da área de manutenção aeronáutica, no âmbito da Força Aérea Brasileira. ... -
Suppliers’ non-compliance with sustainability standards: a new perspective based on discrete-choice experiments
2017-03What are the factors that contribute to non-compliance with a supply chain partner’s sustainability efforts? Based on institutional theory and social cognitive theory, a discrete-choice experiment was conducted with 128 ... -
Of cities and slums
2017-03The emergence of slums is a common feature in a countryís path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, ... -
Second order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for singular solutions of partially-affine control problems
2017-03-02In this article we study optimal control problems for sys- tems that are affine with respect to some of the control variables and nonlinear in relation to the others. We consider finitely many equality and inequality ... -
Stochastic control and differential games with path-dependent controls
2017-03-05In this paper we consider the functional Itˆo calculus framework to find a path- dependent version of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for stochastic control problems with path-dependence in the controls. We also prove ... -
Optimal selling mechanisms under moment conditions
2017-04-08We study the revenue maximization problem of a seller who is partially informed about the distribution of buyer's valuations, only knowing its first N moments. The seller chooses the mechanism generating the best revenue ... -
On the origins of monetary exchange
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Testing for jump spillovers without testing for jumps
2017-09-30This paper develops statistical tools for testing conditional independence among the jump components of the daily quadratic variation, which we estimate using intraday data. To avoid sequential bias distortion, we do not ... -
Self-enforcing debt limits and costly default in general equilibrium
2017-12-05We establish a novel determination of self-enforcing debt limits at the present value of default cost in a general competitive equilibrium. Agents can trade state-contingent debt but cannot commit to repay. If an agent ...
