Trade negotiations have been a great success since the 1950s and today virtually every country in the world is part of at least one trade treaty. Nowadays, there is widespread participation in multilateral trade agreements, ...

O objetivo deste trabalho é propor um modelo de seleção de ações que superem o índice IBrX 100, com base em seus registros contábeis e indicadores de mercado, a partir da utilização das técnicas de support vector machine ...

This dissertation examines how revenue shocks in Brazilian municipalities affect the mental health of their population. We exploit a plausible exogeneity regarding oil royalties distribution to establish a causal relationship ...

The real equilibrium interest rate (r*) is a fundamental concept for monetary policy in inflation targeting economies, since it is the real interest rate consistent with constant inflation, absent any shocks. This study ...

O modelo de oferta de trabalho de ciclo-da-vida prediz que choques de renda transitórios deveriam ter um efeito negligível na provisão de trabalho. Essa predição foi desafiada por uma série de artigos mostrando que ...

This paper analyzes the causal impact of electoral competition on political selection, campaign funds, and performance in office. We use, for investigation, the 2012 Brazilian mayoral elections. To overcome potential ...

Politically connected individuals obtain favors in the form of public jobs and public credit, but do they also receive preferential treatment when it comes to environmental regulation? Also, what are the effects of electing ...

A growing literature highlights the relation between bank crises and sovereign defaults. However, causal estimates of the effect of banks on sovereign risk, under plausible identifying assumptions, are badly missing from ...

This thesis studies how offshoring process affected growth and wages, as well as how the economy would be impacted if policies designed to hinder the process of global integration took place. The first chapter studies how ...

O presente artigo estuda um modelo de coordenação dinâmica em que agentes recebem oportunidades aleatórias para tomarem suas decisões. Há heterogeneidade em diversas dimensões. Em particular, cada agente pode afetar e ser ...