A well–established fact in monetary theory is that a key ingredient for the essentiality of money is its role as a form of memory. In this paper we study a notion of memory that includes information about an agent’s past actions and trading opportunities but, in contrast to Kocherlakota...

This paper investigates the relationship between memory and the essentiality of money. We consider a random matching economy with a large finite population in which commitment is not possible and memory is limited in the sense that only a fraction m E(0; 1) of the population has publicly...

Este trabalho discute a dinâmica dos investimentos diretos da China para as economias mundiais e, particularmente, para a América do Sul. Após mais de três décadas de intenso crescimento econômico e de forte aumento de sua participação no comércio mundial, a economia chinesa vem...

O trabalho analisa a evolução da política monetária desde a implementação do regime de metas de inflação no período de 1999 a 2009 com o intuito de avaliar se há diferenças na condução de política monetária entre as gestões Armínio Fraga e Henrique Meirelles. Um modelo de...

Explaining the Brazilian economic growth performance during the 20th is a challenging task to academics. As shown, Brazil had already experienced faster growth and recently it is far from such belle époque. Most explanation lies on conventional frameworks. This paper assesses the Thirlwall’s...

O acirramento da crise econômica e financeira internacional, no último trimestre de 2008, teve diferentes respostas de política dos diversos governos ao redor do mundo. O objetivo deste texto é o de analisar essas ações do governo brasileiro em termos de reação das políticas fiscal e...

All the demonstrations known to this author of the existence of the Jordan Canonical Form are somewhat complex - usually invoking the use of new spaces, and what not. These demonstrations are usually too difficult for an average Mathematics student to understand how he or she can obtain the...

The present work seeks to investigate the dynamics of capital account liberalization and its impact on short run capital flows to Brazil in the period of 1995-2002, considering different segments such as the monetary, derivative and equity markets. This task is pursued by developing a...

O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar se a análise técnica agrega valor às decisões de investimentos. Através da elaboração de intervalos de confiança, construídos através da técnica de Bootstrap de inferência amostral, e consistentes com a hipótese nula de eficiência de mercado na...

How do presidents win legislative support under conditions of extreme multipartism? Comparative presidential research has offered two parallel answers, one relying on distributive politics and the other claiming that legislative success is a function of coalition formation. We merge these...