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    • Access to long-term credit and productivity of small and medium firms: a causal evidence 

      Cavalcanti, Tiago; Vaz, Paulo Henrique
      2017-01
      This letter assesses the impact of a variation in access to a targeted loan program from Brazil's development bank on investment and productivity. Results suggest that eligible firms increased their relative investment ...
    • Information transmission and inefficient lobbying 

      Lima, Rafael Coutinho Costa; Moreira, Humberto Ataíde
      2014-07
      In a seminal paper, Grossman and Helpman (1994) introduced a framework to understand how lobbying influences the choice of import/export tariffs. In this paper we extend their analysis and assume that lobbies have private ...