This paper attempts to discuss quality and some improvements in high frequency time series data of the nominal gross investment expenses for Brazilian municipalities which are state capitals. We first utilized data for the 2001-2008 period available in Relatórios Resumidos de Execução...

This paper attempts to discuss quality and some improvements in high frequency time series data of the nominal gross investment expenses for Brazilian municipalities which are state capitals. We first utilized data for the 2001-2008 period available in Relatórios Resumidos de Execução...

The present article is a review of some recent works on the effects of the FTAA and the EU-Mercosur agreement on the Brazilian economy. We present these works' main results, emphasizing their methodological differences and limitations. Their results seem to be very diverse and very sensible to...