High trade costs make it difficult to fully exploit comparative advantages and reduce the level of income. This paper estimates the cost of trade and its main determinants in the period 1995-2015 using information on domestic sales and exports by destination country of the input matrix product...

Factor and sparse models are two widely used methods to impose a low-dimensional structure in high dimension. They are seemingly mutually exclusive. In this paper, we propose a simple lifting method that combines the merits of these two models in a supervised learning methodology that allows to...

It is widely known that Google Trends has become one of the most popular free tools used by forecasters both in academics and in the private and public sectors. There are many papers, from several different fields, concluding that Google Trends improve forecasts' accuracy. However, what seems to...

This paper seeks the elaboration and application of a quantitative measurement for technology in Brazilian manufacturing during 2000-2016. The results have showed stability of the proposed technological indexes and an intensive technological development of the Brazilian manufacturing during...

This text aims to analyze the evolution of employment in Brazil, taking as reference the periods 2000-2014 and 2015-2018. It addresses the current situation and the evolution of formal employment in Brazil, through a regional and multiscale analysis, according to the basic principles recommended...

This text aims to provide evidence regarding the adverse effects of anti-dumping measures on the competitive market strategies in different sectors of economic activity. To map firms’ strategic behaviour, as well as the evolution of their market power, our empirical model consists of...

Technical regulation plays na important role in the normative framework of multilateralism led by the WTO. This is due to its possible use as a trade barrier. The treatment of the topic of technical regulation followed the evolution of the rules of the WTO agreements, and constitutes one of the...

Income contingent loans (ICLs) are a financial tool that optimizes the transactional efficiencies involved in the government monopoly in taxing personal income. It protects the borrowers against periods of low income, as instalments vary according to fluctuations in their incomes over the...

In a pay-as-you-go system (SPR) receives contributions from active generations to finance the benefit of inactive people, making their financial balance depend on the proportion of inactive people in the population, a proportion that will double in Brazil in the next 30 years, making it...