Listagem Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas por autor "Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti"
Itens para a visualização no momento 1-12 of 12
-
AIDS, longevity and long-run income
2013This article studies the long-run impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita income and education. We focus on the disincentive to human capital accumulation given by shorter life span. We work with a continuous time overlapping ... -
Convergência entre a renda per-capita dos estados brasileiros
1996-11-01This paper aims to investigate if per capita income of the Brazilian states are converging, so that inequality among them are declining, and also to estimate the speed of convergence. The methodology follows Barro and ... -
Educação pré-escolar, distorções e crescimento econômico
2015-06-01The objective of this work is to understand, from the perspective of education, the divergence in per capita income and the convergence of schooling among the sub- Saharan and European countries between 1960 and 2010. This ... -
The effects of external and internal shocks on total factor productivity
2010This paper examines structural changes that occur in the total factor productivity (TFP) within countries. It is possible that some episodes of high economic growth or economic decline are associated with permanent ... -
Estrutura competitiva, produtividade industrial e liberalização comercial no Brasil
2004-12-01This paper analyzes the behavior of the Brazilian manufacturing industry after the reforms implemented in the nineties. We examine the impact of trade liberalization on industry productivity and estimate the markup of ... -
The evolution of international output differences (1970-2000): From factors to productivity
2008This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1970 to 2000. It is shown that in the early seventies factors of production (capital and ... -
O impacto da escolaridade sobre a distribuição de renda
2010-12-01This paper investigates the impact of education on income distribution of Brazilian states and regions, using a semi parametric method, following Dinardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and dataset from the PNAD 1999. Contrafactual ... -
Integração, crescimento e bem-estar
1997-11-02We present a model of growth for the case of two economies with integrated markets and where transportation costs in the form of iceberg costs are imposed. These costs will have negative impact on growth rates after ... -
New evidence from Brazil on trade liberalization and productivity growth
2003-11This article presents evidence on the positive effect of international trade on productivity growth using industrial level data preceding and following Brazil's trade liberalization in 1988-90. Our data reveal large and ... -
On the evolution of total factor productivity in Latin America
2013-01Because of several policy distortions, including import-substitution industrialization, widespread government intervention, and both domestic and international competitive barriers, there has been a general presumption ... -
On the output effects of barriers to trade
2006-11We study the macroeconomic effects of international trade policy by integrating a Hecksher-Ohlin trade model into an optimal-growth framework. The model predicts that a more open economy will have higher factor productivity. ... -
Time-series properties and empirical evidence of growth and infrastructure
1998-05-01After more than forty years studying growth, there are two classes of growth models that have emerged: exogenous and endogenous growth models. Since both try to mimic the same set of long-run stylized facts, they are ...
