Browsing FGV EPGE - Ensaios Econômicos by Author "Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti"
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Perspectivas de longo prazo da economia brasileira: uma analise exploratoria
1996-10As perspectivas de longo prazo da economia brasileira são examinadas tomando como referência principal a chamada Teoria do Crescimento Endógeno. Estudaremos a situação daquelas variáveis onde já há consenso de sua importância ... -
Por que o Brasil não precisa de política industrial
2007-03-01This 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 ... -
Produtividade agregada brasileira (1970-2000): declínio robusto e fraca recuperação
2005-07-01This study explores the productivity performance of the Brazilian economy between 1970 and 1998. We assess how much of the TFP downfall can be explained by some departures from the standard procedure. We incorporate to the ... -
Public expenditures taxation and welfare measurement
1994-05this article addresses the welfare and macroeconomics effects of fiscal policy in a frarnework where govemment chooses tax rates and the distribution of revenues between consumption and investment. We construct and simulate ... -
Public versus private provision of infrastructure in a neoclassical growth model
1998-11-01This article studies the welfare and long run allocation impacts of privatization. There are two types of capital in this model economy, one private and the other initially public ('infrastructure'). A positive externality ... -
Reforma tributária no Brasil: efeitos alocativos e impactos de bem-estar
1997-09-01Neste artigo realizam-se quantificações e qualificações dos efeitos alocativos e dos impactos sobre o bem-estar que possíveis reformas tributárias poderiam ocasionar na economia brasileira. Para tanto, recorre-se a ... -
Regional or educational disparities? a counterfactual exercise
2004-03-01This work investigates the impact of schooling Oil income distribution in statesjregions of Brazil. Using a semi-parametric model, discussed in DiNardo, Fortin & Lemieux (1996), we measure how much income diíferences between ... -
Sobre a inexistente relação entre política industrial e comércio exterior
2005-09-01Ao contrário do que se encontra na literatura internacional, em nosso país a defesa da intervenção governamental para promoção da atividade industrial está, via de regra, associada à necessidade de melhoria de nossas contas ... -
Social security reform, retirement and occupational behavior
2018-11We study, in a life-cycle economy with three sectors - formal, informal and public – and endogenous retirement, the macroeconomic and occupational impacts of social security reforms in an economy with multiple pension ... -
Structural transformation and productivity in Latin America
2014-08-06This article examines the e¤ects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent productivity path of Latin America. We use a four-sector (agriculture, industry, modern services and traditional services) ... -
Sustained growth, government expenditure and inflation
1996-02We construct and simulate a theoretical model in order to explain particular historical experiences in which inflation acceleration apparently helped to spur a period of economic growth. Government financed expenditures ... -
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 ... -
Time-series properties and empirical evidence of growth and infraestructure: revised version
1998-09After 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 ... -
Trade barriers and productivity growth: cross-industry evidence
1999-03-01This article investigates the impact of trade protection on the evolution of labor productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) of the Brazilian manufacturing sector. An annual panel-dataset of 16 industries for the ... -
Trade in intermediate goods and total factor productivity
2008-05-09We develop and calibrate a model where differences in factor endowments lead countries to trade intermediate goods, and gains from trade reflect in total factor productivity. We perform several output and growth decompositions, ... -
Trade liberalization and industrial concentration: evidence from Brazil
2004-03-01This paper applies an endogenous lobby formation model to explain the extent of trade protection granted to Brazilian manufacturing industries during the 1988- 1994 trade liberalization episode. Using a panel data set ... -
Universal Basic Income in Developing Countries: Pitfalls and Alternatives
2021This article studies the short -and long-term effects of Universal Basic Income programs - a uniform transfer to every individual in society - in the context of a developing economy and compares this policy with other ... -
Welfare and fiscal policy with public goods and infrastructure
1995-05We construct and simulate a model to study the welfare and macroeconomic impact of government actions when its productive role is taken into account. The trade-off between public investment and public consumption is also ...
