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    • Avaliação de impacto de políticas de segurança: o caso das Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs) no Rio de Janeiro 

      Butelli, Pedro Henrique
      2015-05-21
      This thesis aims on the impact evaluation of the Pacifying Police Units policy, incorporating the causality relations through differences-in-differences regressions with multiple specifications in order to measure the ...
    • Ensaios em macroeconometria 

      Salvato, Márcio Antônio
      2003
      Este trabalho, no capítulo um, investiga amplamente a evolução do consumo de bens duráveis no Brasil a partir da decisão de consumo individual e da possibilidade de existir restrição ao crédito. A contribuição mais relevante ...
    • Ensaios em macroeconometria e finanças 

      Guillen, Osmani Teixeira Carvalho
      2003
      Esta tese de doutorado está composta por quatro ensaios em macroeconometria e finanças com aplicações nas áreas de abertura comercial, custo de bem estar do ciclo de negócios e taxas de juros. No primeiro ensaio analisamos ...
    • Essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics 

      Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2011-02-25
      This 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 macroeconometrics 

      Saraiva, Diogo Vinícius Menezes
      2015-11-27
      The knowledge of the current state of the economy is crucial for policy makers, economists and analysts. However, a key economic variable, the gross domestic product (GDP), are typically colected on a quartely basis and ...
    • Essays in macroeconomics and public finance 

      Pereira, Thiago Neves
      2011-03-25
      This 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’ ...
    • Essays in macroeconomy and dynamic term-structure models 

      Lund, Bruno Pereira
      2009-12-19
      This thesis is composed of three articles with the subjects of macroeconomics and - nance. Each article corresponds to a chapter and is done in paper format. In the rst article, which was done with Axel Simonsen, we model ...
    • Essays in taxation and savings 

      Monteiro, Marcos José Pérez
      2013-04-24
      This dissertation is composed of three articles. Two of them investigate taxation issues and the third is a paper on savings. Although the subject of analysis is different among them, they all share the com- mon feature ...
    • Essays on finance and macroeconomy 

      Simonsen, Axel André
      2009-01-01
      I study the asset-pricing implications in an cnviromncnt with feedback traders and rational arbitrageurs. Feedback traders are defined as possible naive investors who buy after a raise in prices and sell after a drop in ...
    • Essays on price dynamics 

      Silva, João Luiz Ayres Queiroz
      2011-07-26
      Esta 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 ...
    • The macroeconomics of price adjustments under information frictions and menu costs 

      Nunes, Vivian Malta
      2013-06-18
      This thesis studies price-setting models and analyzes their macroeconomic im- plications. In the rst two chapters I study general models in which rms pricing decisions are a¤ected by menu costs and information costs. In ...
    • Previdência, câmbio e macroeconomia de longo prazo 

      Souza, Pablo Valente de
      2014-09-29
      Há um debate clássico entre economistas brasileiros sobre o papel da taxa de câmbio no processo de crescimento econômico. Alguns argumentam que a boa performance econômica de certos países está diretamente associada às ...
    • Three Essays in macro-finance 

      Valente, João Paulo
      2019-12-20
      This dissertation consists of three essays in Macro-Finance. The first two papers study tail risk in the hedge fund industry, and the last paper investigates the effects of fiscal irresponsibility in a monetary union under ...
    • Três ensaios em macroeconomia: incerteza fiscal, crédito direcionado e taxa de juros natural numa economia aberta pequena 

      Silva, Felipi Bruno da
      2020-06-23
      Esta tese é composta de três ensaios relacionados a economia brasileira. O primeiro deles estuda a evolução da incerteza fiscal, bem como os seus efeitos e mecanismos de transmissão sobre os agregados macroeconômicos. O ...