Listagem FGV EESP - Textos para Discussão / Working Paper Series por Assunto "Economia"
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Housing development in Latin America and the Caribean, its measuring and its determinants
1999-11-01This text briejly describes the Housing Development lndex (HDI). Following a concise introduction on the reasons for this research, HDI's methodology, characteristics, properties and databases supporting its calculation ... -
Human capital and innovation: evidence from panel cointegration tests
2010-02-22Panel cointegration techniques applied to pooled data for 27 economies for the period 1960-2000 indicate that: i) government spending in education and innovation indicators are cointegrated; ii) education hierarchy is ... -
Hybrid political institutions and governability: the budgetary process in Brazil
2010-06-16In this paper we take a close look at some of the particular pathways by which majoritarian and consensual institutions affect governability. We demonstrate that the mix of majoritarian and consensual institutions found ... -
Hysteresis e o comércio exterior de produtos industrializados brasileiros
2010-06-29This article investigates the hypothesis of hysteresis for the Brazilian manufactured exports and imports in recent years. For that it was used an empirical measure of strong hysteresis (macroeconomic) developed by Piscitelli ... -
Identification and estimation of interventions using changes in inequality measures
2010-06-16This paper presents semiparametric estimators of changes in inequality measures of a dependent variable distribution taking into account the possible changes on the distributions of covariates. When we do not impose ... -
Ideological changes and tax structure: Latin American countries during the nineties
2007-12-05Sabatini (2002) and Roberts and Wibbles (1999) Pointed Out That Voters in Latin American Countries are no Longer Choosing According to Their Ideological Preferences. Ashworth and Heyndels (2002) Showed That the Tax Choice ... -
Impacto da alfabetização de adultos sobre salário e emprego
2010-06-17In this paper, we document some evidence about the impacts of adult alphabetization on earnings and labor force participation. The longitudinal data available in the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) allow us to control for ... -
Impacto de entrada da Venezuela no Mercosul: uma simulação com modelo de equilíbrio geral computável
2006-11-21O Objetivo deste Estudo é Avaliar os Impactos da Entrada da Venezuela no Mercosul Utilizando para Tanto o Modelo de Equilíbrio Geral Computável Multi-Setorial e Multi-Regional Denominado Global Trade Analysis Project (Gtap). ... -
Impacts of the proposals for tariff reductions in non-agricultural market access (Nama)
2006-11-21O estudo visa avaliar os impactos de propostas alternativas de redução da proteção tarifária de bens não agrícolas sobre a economia brasileira usando um modelo de equilíbrio geral computável. Foram simulados os impactos ... -
Income and bargaining effects on education and health
2010-05-05In this paper, we examine the impacts of the reform in the rural pension system in Brazil in 1991 on schooling and health indicators. In addition, we use the reform to investigate the validity of the unitary model of ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2015-10-27Differences-in-Differences (DID) is one of the most widely used identification strategies in applied economics. However, how to draw inferences in DID models when there are few treated groups remains an open question. We ... -
Inflação e globalização: análise dos efeitos globais sobre a dinâmica da inflação brasileira
2010-06-17This work discusses and tests the hypothesis that global factors changed the parameters of the domestic inflation process, yet, whether the output gap has lost its importance in the definition of the Phillips curve, causing ... -
Inflation targeting in Brazil: a Keynesian approach
2008-10-16O Regime de Meta de Inflação se Tornou Dominante na Formulação de Políticas dos Bancos Centrais nos Últimos 15 Anos. a Teoria Subjacente, Particularmente a Regra de Taylor, Pode ser Vista como uma Competente Generalização ... -
Infra-estrutura e produtividade no Brasil
2010-02-22Este artigo analisa a relação entre infra-estrutura e produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) no Brasil entre 1950 e 2000. O estoque de capital público é utilizado como proxy para o capital de infra-estrutura. A hipótese a ... -
Infrastructure and productivity in Latin America: is there a relationship in the long run?
2010-02-22This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. We hypothesise that an increase in ... -
Inserção comercial do Brasil na américa do sul: um estudo sobre os efeitos da China na região
2010-03-15Este trabalho analisa a importância relativa de diferentes parceiros comerciais das economias da América do Sul, nas últimas duas décadas. A principal motivação deste estudo é a crescente influência da China no comércio ... -
Intellectual property and competition as complementary policies: a test using an ordered probit model
2007-01-30Este Artigo Testa a Proposição da Teoria Econômica de que Propriedade Intelectual e Defesa da Concorrência são Políticas Complementares. um Modelo Probit Ordenado é Utilizado para Estimar os Efeitos Marginais do Uso e ... -
Intergovernmental transfers and public spending in Brazilian municipalities
2015-03-02We estimate the effects of unconditional (full fiscal decentralization) versus conditional (partial fiscal decentralization) block grants on local public spending in Brazilian municipalities. Our results suggest that the ... -
Interpretação nacionalista versus interpretação da dependência
2010-08-06Nos anos 1950 dois grupos de intelectuais públicos, organizados em torno da CEPAL, em Santiago do Chile, e do ISEB, no Rio de Janeiro, pensaram a América Latina de forma pioneira de um ponto de vista nacionalista. A CEPAL ... -
Investment-specific technological change and the Brazilian macroeconomy
2014-12-12We studied the effects of changes in banking spreads on distributions of income, wealth and consumption as well as the welfare of the economy. This analysis was based on a model of heterogeneous agents with incomplete ...
