The paper discusses the use of indicators, constructed with data from North American industrial sectors, and their application in the discussion of public policies, especially in competition policy, and to a lesser extent, in foreign trade policy. The premise is that the structure of domestic...

The objective of this work is to analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on the behavior of Brazilian municipal policy makers. This work uses the first three cutoffs of the transfer rules of the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM) and applies a Discontinuous Regression model (RDD) to...

Technological change is a determining factor to ensure the sustainable growth of the agricultural sector in Brazil and worldwide. Since the 70s, Brazil has been able to expand the food supply, thus contributing to the supply of domestic and foreign markets. Between 1980 and 2021, grain...

Technological change is a determining factor in economic growth. Since the 1970s, Brazil has become an example in promoting agricultural research. The result was total factor productivity (TFP) growth. What would be the impact of public policies on productivity growth? The present study sought...

It is proposed to estimate two versions of the potential output for Brazil in the period 1992-2010, through the production function and the HP filter, and use these results to: i) assess the relevance of the output gap in the monetary policy decisions (comparing the two estimates); and ii) to...

In this work, the coefficients that relate business climate, investments and productivity are estimated based upon a panel of 81 countries in the period between 2005 and 2011. Fixed effects panel regressions (which take into account omitted variables and, as a result, time invariant country...

The cultivation of arboreal cotton, which represented almost a quarter of the national production and occupied half of the area harvested in the 1970s, was practically extinct, while the production of herbaceous cotton grew and consolidated since the 2000s. This study evaluated the productivity...

This study aims to analyze the importance of Mato Grosso state in Brazilian agriculture, in terms of its contribution to growth and innovation. Additionally, the role of some municipalities in tax collection was presented, as well as the impact of the EF-170 railway project, better known as...

The study aimed to investigate the potential spatial correlation between BNDES funding allocation across different company sizes and the structural transformation of micro-regions in Brazil. Economic complexity indices, both linear and non-linear, along with productivity in foreign trade, were...

This study shows the importance of soybean production in Brazilian economic development. Three blocks of data were studied: i) the soy production chain and added value; ii) regional production and human development indexes; and iii) international trade and food security. The study demystifies...