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Este trabalho busca gerar robustez aos resultados vistos em estudos que indicam uma maior capacidade da rede particular de ensino em gerar qualidade educacional no Brasil. Para isso, uma metodologia quantílica, baseada na seleção em observadas, é realizada, que ao contrário de outras...
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In a companion paper, Bertolai et al. (2011) build on Peck-Shell (2003) economies and obtain strong implementation in perturbations of optimal contracts. Since bank runs are eliminated with distortions that become very small when the population grows, a pressing issue is whether an alternative...
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This article explores theoretic and empirically the effects of inequality on the cost of electoral campaigns. An electoral competition model suggests that electoral campaigns costs increase with the level of inequality. That result stresses the need of careful campaign financing regulation in...
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As relações entre o progresso técnico e o mercado de trabalho são estudadas por diversos autores atualmente tanto no cenário nacional como internacional, apresentando inusitadamente resultados ambíguos. No âmbito nacional, alguns estudos encontraram evidências de que firmas...
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We develop and calibrate a model where differences in factor endowments lead countries to trade intermediate goods, and gains from trade reflect in total factor productivity. We perform several output and growth decompositions, to assess the impact that barriers to trade, as well as changes in...
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A verificação da eficiência do contrato futuro de açúcar é fundamental para que essa ferramenta de gerenciamento de risco seja eficaz em atender seu propósito de mitigar o risco dessas organizações que atuam no setor sucroalcooleiro. O presente trabalho avaliou a hipótese de...
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O objetivo deste artigo é discutir o papel da comunicação na condução da política monetária do Banco Central do Brasil. Constrói-se, inicialmente, um índice que traduz a informação qualitativa contida nas atas do COPOM num índice ordenado, semelhante ao construído por Rosa e Verga...
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This paper examines the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola (later renamed Bolsa Familia) program on children's progress in school in Brazil. The Bolsa program, which started in the 1990s and expanded rapidly in 2001 and 2002, provides monthly cash payments to poor households if their children...
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While maid's services are considered luxury goods in developed countries, that is not always the case in developing countries. Economists believe that the reason for that is the availability of cheap unskilled labor supply in developing countries. However, few attention has been given to the...
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We test ex ante uncovered interest parity (UIP) for Brazil using survey data of ex- change rate expectations from the Brazilian Central Bank. Using data from 2001M11 until 2007M12 and Ordinary Least Squares, we found that the estimated UIP parameter is smaller than one, which is a common...
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