emerging economies. This paper argues that uncertainty about future monetary policy is a separate transmission channel. We … focus on the taper tantrum episode in 2013, a period with an elevated uncertainty about monetary policy, and use a data set … index about monetary policy uncertainty using a list of uncertainty keywords. An advantage of this index is that it reflects …

In this paper I assess empirically the sign of the uncertainty-investment relation in Brazil within a quadratic … investment can be enlarged with the adoption of a sustainable macroeconomic policy that rules out uncertainty-yielding shocks …

in the country in order to measure the impact of climate change on the dengue risk in Brazil, and also examine the public … risk, a comparative case study research will be used, based on the comparison of cities that suffered from specific climate … conditions that increased the risk of dengue with cities whose climatic conditions stayed the same. The counterfactual will be …