Browsing FGV EPGE - Teses, Doutorado em Economia by Issue Date
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Essays on the general equilibrium effects of barriers to trade on economic growth, foreign trade and the location of economic activity in Brazil
2010-04-16This work presents a fully operational interstate CGE model implemented for the Brazilian economy that tries to quantify both the role of barriers to trade on economic growth and foreign trade performance and how the ... -
Essays on regulation and risk
2010-08-30In this thesis, we investigate some aspects of the interplay between economic regulation and the risk of the regulated firm. In the first chapter, the main goal is to understand the implications a mainstream regulatory ... -
Assorted topics in monetary economics
2010-09-24This thesis collects four papers on monetary economics written under the supervision of Professor Rubens Penha Cysne. The first of these papers assesses the bias occuring in welfare-cost-of-inflation measures due to failing ... -
Micro evidence on brazilian price stickiness and its consequences for sectoral real exchange rate and inflation persistence
2010-11-08The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the price-setting behavior in Brazil and, in particular, the effects on inflation and good-level real exchange rate persistence. This thesis is composed by three Chapters. In ... -
Essays on infrastructure in Brazil
2010-12-17This thesis encompasses five papers about two Brazilian infrastructure sectors: energy and road transportation. In the first paper, we model the bid in the Brazilian transmission lines auctions, in order to understand why ... -
Essays on industrial organization
2010-12-23This thesis is comprised of three essays with a common goal: expand the theories about what drives the shape of an industry and its consequences. All three are theoretical and applied, in the sense of being detailed studies ... -
Essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics
2011-02-25This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of elderly American males and investigates the factors that may account for the changes in retirement ... -
Essays in recursive equilibrium and market selection hypothesis
2011-02-28Este trabalho consiste em estudar modelos incluindo agentes com informação completa e incompleta sobre o ambiente econômico. Prova-se a existência de equilíbrio em que esses dois agentes coexistem e sob, algumas condições, ... -
Essays in macroeconomics and public finance
2011-03-25This thesis is dedicated to study of tax schedule. I investigate how a tax schedule could affect the individuals’ choice and consequently the resources of the country. I show how a tax schedule induce the individuals’ ... -
Ensaios em desenvolvimento econômico e finanças públicas
2011-04-01Este trabalho trata do impacto da dívida pública sobre o crescimento econômico utilizando conjunto de dados de painel para o período de 1990 a 2000 nos países da América Latina e Caribe, e considerando técnicas de método ... -
Interações econômicas entre capital humano e fecundidade
2011-04-24O primeiro artigo desta tese procura medir o impacto do programa Bolsa Familia sobre a gravidez juvenil, discutindo também a utilização de programas de transferência condicional de renda para a diminuição da fecundidade ... -
Regras de preços e efeitos de política monetária e fiscal
2011-04-26Esta tese é composta por três ensaios, dois deles analisam regras de preços e o outro faz uma análise de política fiscal. Cada ensaio forma um capítulo da tese. No primeiro capítulo, acrescentamos heterogeneidade a um ... -
Essays on price dynamics
2011-07-26Esta tese tem como objetivo principal aproximar a evidencia empirica existente sobre os agregados macroeconomicos com as novas evidencias empiricas baseadas nos micro dados de precos ao consumidor, tendo como base os modelos ... -
Ensaios sobre diferencial de salários e estimação de demanda no Brasil
2012This study investigates the wage gap between the public and private sectors in Brazil. The analysis is carried out with 2009 microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and it takes account its ... -
Essays on economic regulation
2012-07-09It is known that stock prices of public listed regulated companies react to price revisions by the regulator, and that the information conveyed by this price reaction might be used by the regulator on the contract design. ... -
A roughly smooth optimal consumption path: smoothing the rough annuity puzzle
2012-08-22This thesis extend the theoretical dominance of annuities over non-contingent discount notes; under standard assumptions, we show that full annuitization is optimal even in incomplete annuity markets. Through numerical ... -
Essays on monetary and banking theory
2012-08-24This thesis is dedicated to the study of both financial instability and dynamics in monetary theory. It is shown that bank runs are costless prevented in the standard model of banking theory when population is not small. ... -
Ensaios em economia aplicada
2012-09-13A presente tese estuda o comportamento da dinâmica da economia doméstica a choques externos. Nos dois primeiros capítulos, é abordado o efeito de choques internaciona is sobre duas métricas importantes em uma economia. No ... -
Ensaios sobre o poder judiciário no Brasil
2012-12-18This thesis is a collection of empirical essays on the institut ional features of the justice system in Brazil, focused on state district courts of the first degree. It relies on econometric methods and insights from ... -
Essays on Spatial Econometrics
2012-12-22Esta dissertação concentra-se nos processos estocásticos espaciais definidos em um reticulado, os chamados modelos do tipo Cliff & Ord. Minha contribuição nesta tese consiste em utilizar aproximações de Edgeworth e saddlepoint ...
