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Bureaucratic Delegation and Political Institutions : When Are Independent Central Banks Irrelevent?

Keefer, Philip; Stasavage, David - 2000

The government's ability to credibly commit to policy announcements is critical to the successful implementation of economic policies as diverse as capital taxation and utilities regulation. One frequently advocated means of signaling credible commitment is to delegate authority to an agency...

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Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments

Keefer, Philip; Stasavage, David - 2013

The authors develop and test several new hypotheses about the anti-inflationary effect of central bank independence and exchange rate pegs in the context of different institutions and different degrees of citizen information about government policies. Theory provides strong reason to believe...

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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from MERCOSUR

Bown, Chad P.; Tovar, Patricia - 2016

liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …

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Exports and Job Training

Bastos, Paulo; Proenca, Rafael; Silva, Joana - 2016

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to...

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Assessing the Impacts of Mais Educacao on Educational Outcomes : Evidence between 2007 and 2011

Almeida, Rita; Borges, Bruna; Bresolin, Antonio; … - 2016

enrichment of the curriculum. In Brazil, a nationwide policy -- Mais Educação -- was implemented in 2008 with this objective …

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Do Performance Agreements Help Improve Service Delivery? : The Experience of Brazilian States

Vinuela, Lorena; Zoratto, Laura - 2015

A growing number of states and municipalities in Brazil rely on results-based management, and many other local and …

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The Export-Productivity Link in Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Cirera, X.; Lederman, Daniel; Máñez, J.A.; Rochina, M.E. - 2015

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the period 2000–08. The Brazilian experience is instructive, as it is a case of an economy that expanded aggregate exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total...

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The Economics of Policy Instruments to Stimulate Wind Power in Brazil

Landis, Florian; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2015

equilibrium model, this study analyzes the economy-wide costs of achieving a 10 percent share of wind power in Brazil …’s electricity supply mix by 2030. Brazil is in the midst of an active program of wind capacity expansion. The welfare loss would be … that, in the case of Brazil, production subsidies financed through increased value-added tax would have superior impacts on …

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Green Industrial Policy : Trade and Theory

Karp, Larry S.; Stevenson, Megan - 2013

trade disputes, emphasizing the Brazil-United States dispute involving ethanol and the broader United States-China dispute …

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Making the Poor Count Takes More than Counting the Poor : A Quick Poverty Assessment of the State of Bahia, Brazil

Verner, Dorte - 2013

The state of Bahia, Brazil has made progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators in the past decade …. Despite this progress, Bahia's poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are among the lowest in Brazil … living in Bahia does not by itself affect the probability of falling below the poverty line in Brazil. Hence, other …

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