Este trabalho tem como objectivo a realização de uma analise da economia brasileira, em 1960-2000, numa perspectiva sectorial. Os modelos econometricos e o teste de causalidade de Hausman mostram que o incremento da produção manufactureira e necessario para lograr um desenvolvimento...

Due to the difficulties that the bank activity presents in a financial institution. And when using the dividend discount model in the evaluation of banks, appears the problem of not being able to estimate the net capital expenses and the working capital noncash. Considering that, this work has...

This paper aims to analyze the technical efficiency of farms in Brazil and its regions, based on the data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture. More specifically, it seeks to compare the technical efficiency of farm households in relation to business farms, considering the regional differences in...

We estimate DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) technical efficiency scores for 1170 Brazilian hospitals included in the SUS (Central Health System) using a recently proposed method that combines bootstrap and jackknife resampling to eliminate the influence of outliers and possible measurement and...

A bootstrap algorithm proposed by Psaradakis (2001) for hypothesis testing in I(1) regressions is discussed and shown to be valid only under the null hypothesis. A simple correction making the procedure valid under both the null and the alternative hypothesis is proposed.

The main goal os this paper is to understand on theoretical and empirical grounds the main determinants of China´s long-run economic growth. The historical data analysis suggests a crucial role played by FDI and the exchange rate. The econometric analysis provides empirical support for the...