Listagem FGV EPGE - Ensaios Econômicos por Assunto "Desenvolvimento econômico"
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On the welfare costs of business-cycle fluctuations and economic-growth variation in the 20th century
2012-10-17Lucas(1987) has shown a surprising result in business-cycle research: the welfare cost of business cycles are very small. Our paper has several original contributions. First, in computing welfare costs, we propose a novel ... -
On the welfare costs of business-cycle fluctuations and economic-growth variation in the 20th century
2012-02-28Lucas (1987) has shown a surprising result in business-cycle research: the welfare cost of business cycles are very small. Our paper has several original contributions. First, in computing welfare costs, we propose a novel ... -
On the welfare costs of business-cycle fluctuations and economic-growth variation in the 20th century and beyond
2013-11-04The main objective of this paper is to propose a novel setup that allows estimating separately the welfare costs of the uncertainty stemming from business-cycle uctuations and from economic-growth variation, when the two ... -
Perspectivas de crescimento no longo prazo para o Brasil: questões em aberto
2006-01-01Este 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 ... -
The private memory of aggregate shocks
2010-07-10We study constrained efficient aggregate risk sharing and its consequence for the behavior of macro-aggregates in a dynamic Mirrlees’s (1971) setting. Privately observed idiosyncratic productivity shocks are assumed to be ... -
Pro-poor growth and social programmes in Brazil
2006-12-01From a methodological point of view, this paper makes two contributions to the literature. One contribution is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth. This new measure provides the linkage between growth rates ... -
Targeting the poor: a macroeconomic analysis of cash transfer programs
2011-12-14This paper introduces cash transfers targeting the poor in an incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents facing idiosyncratic risk. These transfers change the degree of insurance in the economy and affect precautionary ... -
Testing production functions used in empirical growth studies
2002-03-01We 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
2003-10-11We 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 ... -
Testing the externalities hypothesis of endogenous growth using cointegration
1994-04The initial endogenous growth models emphasized the importance of externaI effects in explaining sustainable growth across time. Empirically, this hypothesis can be confirmed if the coefficient of physical capital per hour ... -
Using common features to investigate common growth cycles for BRICS Countries
2017-05-30Emerging market economies have historically shown high cyclical volatility when compared to developed economies. Common factor models have been largely used in economics as economic theory suggests that there strong linkages ... -
Who should bear the risk of economic growth?
How is aggregate risks optimally shared between workers and retirees? We break this question in two parts. First, how ought risk to be shared between two groups of agents: one which must be provided incentives to make ...
