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    • Essays on credit, durable goods and public debt in an incomplete market framework 

      Abreu, Rodrigo Soares de
      2016-06-10
      This thesis is an essay composed of three articles, each of them representing a chapter, about quantitative macroeconomics in an environment of incomplete markets. In all chapters the United States economy is used as a ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 applied econometrics 

      Duarte, Rafael Burjack Farias
      2015-11-27
      Using a unique dataset on Brazilian nominal and real yield curves combined with daily survey forecasts of macroeconomic variables such as GDP growth, inflation, and exchange rate movements, we identify the effect of surprises ...
    • Essays on health care reform, wealth inequality, and demography 

      Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira
      2016-01-13
      This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter uses a general equilibrium framework to simulate and compare the long run effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and of health care costs ...
    • Três ensaios em economia aplicada 

      Gonzales Chávez, Christiam Miguel
      2015-02-27
      A tese é constituída por três artigos: 'Regulação Ótima de Pescarias com Imperfeito Enforcement dos Direitos de Propriedade', 'Estimação de um Modelo Generalizado de Pesca' e 'Fatores Condicionantes da Reincidência Criminal ...
    • Essays in applied microeconomics 

      Michon Junior, William
      2015-07-13
      Esta tese é composta de três artigos. No primeiro artigo, ``Risk Taking in Tournaments', é considerado um torneio dinâmico no qual jogadores escolhem como alocar seu tempo em atividades que envolvem risco. No segundo artigo, ...
    • Profit-share bidding auctions: a theoretical approach 

      Souza, Clara Costellini de
      2015-07-02
      In this paper, we study by means of a theoretical approach the Brazilian production sharing regime for oil exploration approved in Law No 12.351. We develop a model for production sharing to capture certain aspects of the ...
    • 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 ...
    • Share bidding auctions, sliding scale royalty rates and the new brazilian regulatory framework for the pre-salt areas 

      Damé, Otávio Menezes
      2014-12-11
      Brazilian government recently passed legislation instituting a new regulatory framework for the pre-salt reserves. These areas should be negotiated through a profit-share bidding auction. Motivated by this new rules, we ...
    • Essays on household taxation and competition between heterogeneous firms 

      Oliveira, Érica Diniz
      2014
      Essa tese é constituída por três artigos: 'Tax Filing Choices for the Household', 'Optimal Tax for the Household: Collective and Unitary Approaches' e 'Vertical Differentiation and Heterogeneous Firms'.
    • Essays on banking theory and history of financial arrangements 

      Ferreira, Murilo Resende
      2014-06-27
      This thesis contains two chapters, each one dealing with banking theory and the history of financiai arrangements. In Chapter 1, we extend a Diamond and Dybvig economy with imperfect monitoring of early withdrawals and ...
    • Ensaios sobre a estrutura a termo da taxa de juros 

      Glasman, Daniela Kubudi
      2013-02-25
      This thesis consists of three works that analyses the term structure of interest rates using different datasets and models. Chapter 1 proposes a parametric interest rate model that allows for segmentation and local shocks ...
    • Essays in Corporate Bankruptcy 

      Ferreira, Rafael de Vasconcelos Xavier
      2014
      This thesis contains three chapters, each bringing an essay on credit markets and on the institutions governing corporate bankruptcy. In chapter one, we bring some evidence to dispute the notion that increasing creditor ...
    • Regras de preços e efeitos de política monetária e fiscal 

      Almeida, Iana Ferrão de
      2011-04-26
      Esta 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 ...
    • Ensaios em econometria aplicada 

      Dias, Victor Pina
      2013-11-19
      Housing is an important component of wealth for a typical household in many countries. The objective of this paper is to investigate the e§ect of real-estate price variation on welfare, trying to close a gap between the ...
    • Essays on incentives, procurement and regulation 

      Rodrigues, Rafael Mourão dos Santos
      2013-10-30
      This thesis is composed of three articles. The first article, 'Simple Contracts under Simultaneous Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard', considers a principal-agent problem under the simultaneous presence of both moral ...
    • Ensaios em Finanças 

      Azevedo, Rafael Moura
      2013-10-11
      Esta tese é composta de três artigos sobre finanças. O primeiro tem o título 'Nonparametric Option Pricing with Generalized Entropic Estimators ' e estuda um método de apreçamento de derivativos em mercados incompletos. ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...