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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

Vreyer, Philippe De; Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2005

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …-ci. Nous estimons la vitesse de convergence du niveau de revenu par habitant des municipalités et testons la présence d …

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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brazil

Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2015

This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...

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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensionsof economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models (1970-2000)

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; … - 2015

convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and …

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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil

Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022

leapfrogging over richer municipalities, from 1920 to 1970. Although the coefficients confirmed a long-term convergence trend in …

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Impacts of subsidized credit on the optimum level of post-crisis investment of Brazilian firms

Alves, Patrick Franco; Silva, Ludmilla Lorrany Mattos; … - 2018

Firms' investment decisions involve analyzing prices, products, technologies, productive capacity and the availability of credit. These and other factors were greatly impacted by the 2009 post-crisis economic environment in Brazil. We measure the after crisis impacts of subsidized credit on the...

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Pragmatic policy in Brazil : the political economy of incomplete market reform

Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis; Schneider, … - 2015

The last 20 years were a period of major political, economic, social, and institutional reform in Brazil. In the first half of the 1990s, reformers opened the economy to foreign trade and both direct and portfolio investment, sold off a number of large and traditional state-owned enterprises,...

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Estimating potential output : a survey of the alternative methods and their applications to Brazil

Barbosa Filho, Nelson Henrique - 2015

This paper presents the main issues involved in estimating potential output. The objective is to describe the alternative methods and analyze their application and implications for growth forecasts and macroeconomic policy in Brazil. The text emphasizes the determinants of potential output under...

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The impact of trade openness on regional inequality : the cases of India and Brazil

Daumal, Marie - DIAL - 2010

Regional inequalities are large in India and Brazil and represent a development challenge. This paper aims to determine whether regional disparities are linked to countries’ trade openness. An annual indicator of regional inequalities is constructed for India over the period 1980-2003 and for...

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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil

Chomitz, Kenneth M.; Mata, Daniel da; Carvalho, … - 2015

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990's. In 2000, about one fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than one...

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Determinants of city growth in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - 2015

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...

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