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    • Ensaios em desenvolvimento econômico e finanças públicas 

      Ourives, Lígia Helena da Cruz
      2011-04-01
      Este 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 ...
    • Essays on economic development and education 

      Delalibera, Bruno Ricardo
      2018-03-09
      This thesis is a collection of three essays in economic development mainly focused on education. In the first two chapters, we study the effects that educational policies may have on a macroeconomic environment where ...
    • Essays on growth, competition and international trade 

      Rios, Heron Marcos Teixeira
      2020-09-14
      This thesis is composed of three independent papers. In the first paper, I revisit the competition-innovation debate in light of the recent empirical evidence on the effects of increased exposure to China product competition. ...
    • Essays on growth, structural transformation and education 

      Pereira, Luciene Torres de Mello
      2016-12-20
      This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter studies the emergence of slums as a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro ...
    • Essays on longevity, welfare, and economic growth 

      Martinez, Thiago Sevilhano
      2020-12-14
      Essa tese é composta por dois artigos sobre as relações entre longevidade, bem-estar e crescimento econômico. O primeiro artigo propõe uma nova medida equivalente de produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) para calcular os ...
    • Essays on multi-country economic growth and sectoral total factor productivity 

      Ferreira, Mariana Fialho
      2016-11-03
      Nesta tese, oferecemos uma abordagem alternativa - e talvez mais apropriada - para a estimação da produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) setorial. Nossa economia artificial utiliza insumos produzidos por diferentes setores ...
    • Essays on structural transformation, growth and education 

      Silva, Leonardo Fonseca da
      2013-12-18
      This thesis aims to study the impact of structural change on the trajectory of development of emerging economies. More speci cally, we seek to understand how the reallocation of labor from less productive sectors of the ...