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    • Distortions in the investment goods sector and productivity decline 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Veloso, Fernando A.
      2014-08-14
      We study the impact of distortions in the investment goods sector on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We develop a two-sector neo-classical growth model in which TFP in the capital goods sector relative to TFP ...
    • Evolução da produtividade total dos fatores na economia brasileira: uma análise comparativa 

      Gomes, Victor; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Veloso, Fernando A.
      2003-06-26
      O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a evolução da produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) para a economia brasileira de 1950 a 2000. Os resultados indicam que a economia brasileira encontrava-se aproximadamente em uma trajetória ...
    • The evolution of international output differences (1960-2000): From factors to productivity 

      Veloso, Fernando A.; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2004-06-01
      This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1960 to 2000. It is shown that at least until 1975 factors of production (capital and education) ...
    • The evolution of TFP in Latin America 

      Veloso, Fernando A.; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2006-09-01
      Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been a general perception that Latin America has always been less productive than the leading economies. In this paper, however, ...
    • The evolution of TFP in Latin America: high productivity when distortions were high? 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Veloso, Fernando A.
      2010-01-07
      Due to widespread government intervention and import-substitution industrialization, there has been a general presumption that Latin America has been much less productive than the leading economies in the last decades. In ...
    • On the evolution of TFP in Latin America 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Veloso, Fernando A.
      2011-08-12
      Due to several policy distortions, including import-substitution industrialization, widespread government intervention and both domestic and international competitive barriers, there has been a general presumption that ...
    • On the tyranny of numbers: East Asian miracles in world perspective 

      Veloso, Fernando A.; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2004-10-01