Labor churning is an important component of labor turnover in Brazil, which includes job reallocation between firms. The labor churning evolution in the nineties, at least for the industry sector in Sao Paulo, folows a very similar path for di erent groups of firms (divided by size or by...

Entre o final de janeiro de 1961 e 31 de março de 1964, o Brasil viveu um período de singular turbulência política, assistiu a única experiência parlamentarista da era republicana, teve três presidentes, cinco chefes de governo e seis ministros da Fazenda. A rotação no comando da...

This manuscript demonstrates that voters have nothing to be afraid of when new hard budget constraint legislation is implemented. Our claim is that this kind of legislation reduces the asymmetry of information between voters and incumbents over the budget and, as a consequence, the latter have...

Este trabalho busca testar empiricamente a associação estatística entre taxa de câmbio real local e arrecadação dos municípios brasileiros para o período de 2004 a 2007. O trabalho apresenta evidências empíricas sobre a relação positiva, mas heterogênea entre a taxa cambial e o...

The paper studies Brazil’s economic growth and begins with a brief overview of events that marked the country’s development from her discovery to the 19th century. It then divides the years between 1900 and 2008 into four periods. The breaks in regime occur in 1918, 1967 and 1980, according...

Este artigo investiga o impacto do estigma sobre as decisões econômicas dos indivíduos beneficiados por algum programa de transferência federal. Estigma é definido aqui como a desutilidade resultante em participar de algum programa de transferência. Em particular, estima-se que o estigma...

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it intends to provide theoretical elements to analyze the relation between real exchange rates and economic development. Our main hypothesis is very much in line with the Dutch disease literature, and states that competitive currencies contribute...

This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. We hypothesise that an increase in infrastructure has an indirect effect on long-term economic growth by raising...

Neste trabalho é discutida e testada a hipótese de que fatores globais têm alterado os parâmetros do processo inflacionário doméstico, ou ainda, é testado se o hiato do produto doméstico tem perdido importância relativa na definição da curva de Phillips, tornando-a mais achatada. Uma...

This paper assesses the relationship between the capital account and the Brazilian economic growth according to balance-of-payments constraint approach. The Thirlwall (1979)´s simple rule is extended to take into consideration capital account and several empirical evidence using time series...