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    • On the nature of income inequality across nations 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Issler, João Victor; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2000-03-01
      In this paper, we investigate the nature of income inequality across nations. First, rather than functional forms or parameter values in calibration exercises that can potentially drives results, we estimate, test, and ...
    • On the tyranny of numbers: East Asian miracles in world perspective 

      Veloso, Fernando A.; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2004-10-01
    • Perspectivas de crescimento no longo prazo para o Brasil: questões em aberto 

      Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2006-01-01
      Este trabalho apresenta quatro questões que me parecem são importantes para entendermos a dinâmica futura de longo prazo da economia brasileira. São elas: 1) Os empecilhos à melhoria da qualidade da educação fundamental ...
    • Por que o Brasil não precisa de política industrial 

      Pinheiro, Maurício Canêdo; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Oliveira, Luiz Guilherme Schymura de
      2007-03-01
      This article discusses the convenience of adopting industrial policy in Brazil. We argue that the success of East Asian countries, usually explained by industrial policy, is mainly result of horizontal policies. We also ...
    • Testing production functions used in empirical growth studies 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Issler, João Victor; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2002-03-01
      We estimate and test two alternative functional forms representing the aggregate production function for a panel of countries: the extended neoclassical growth model, and a mincerian formulation of schooling-returns to ...
    • Testing production functions used in empirical growth studies 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Issler, João Victor; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2003-10-11
      We estimate and test two alternative functional forms, which have been used in the growth literature, representing the aggregate production function for a panel of countries: the model of Mankiw, Romer and Weil (Quarterly ...
    • Vintage capital, distortions and development 

      Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Rob, Rafael
      2002-05-16
      This paper asks to what extent distortions to the adoption of new technology cause income inequality across nations. We work in the framework of embodied technological progress with an individual, C.E.S. production function. ...
    • Welfare characterization of monetary-applied models and three implications 

      Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2000-04-01
      This paper demonstrates that the applied monetary models - the Sidrauski-type models and the cash-in-advance models, augmented with a banking sector that supplies money substitutes services - imply trajectories which are ...
    • Welfare characterization of monetary-applied models and three implications 

      Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2000-08-03
      This paper demonstrates that the applied monetary mo deIs - the Sidrauski-type models and the cash-in-advance models, augmented with a banking sector that supplies money substitutes services - imply trajectories which are ...