The test aims at two objectives. First, it presents a new technique of time series analysis that allows to date historical processes: the recurrence plot. This technique was conceived originally to detect non- linearities and eventually chaotic dynamics in experimental signals in Physics, but it...

Encountering neighbors: an analysis of capital goods production in Brazil using recurrence plot diagrams - The objective of the paper is to identify possible non-linearities in Brazilian capital goods production in the period January/1975-January/2002. Using the techniques of recurrence plots...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the factors which prevented Brazil from becoming a fully industrialized economy, as the United States did, after the culmination of its agrarian-export period. The main conclusion is that, in the USA, basically due to its better...

Institutions are in essence restrictions to the individual behavior created by the own individuals to allow social interactions. The most promising theoretical and empiric progresses in the study of that theme have been reached in the last years by the New Institutional Economy (NIE), but they...