This paper developed and applied the Stochastic Frontier Geographically Weighted (SFGW) to access the tax efficiency of the Brazilian states. The estimated coefficients obtained by this method were close to those from the traditional Stochastic Frontier estimation allowing, however, the...

This paper measures the public expenditure macroeconomic impacts (public consumption and public investment) in the more important Latin American economies by cointegrated autoregressive vectors. In the long run, public investments affect positively output and private consumption, although it has...

This paper analyses primary revenue, primary expenditure, public investment and public consumption from Brazilian federal government by Markov Switching Vector Autorregressive methodology (MS-VAR), investigating if these fiscal variables are procyclical or countercyclical in relation to Brazil...