[PDF] Top 20 Brazil. J. Polit. Econ. vol.27 número1

... It is remarkable throughout our empirical investigation how vulnerable a country that borrows abroad in a foreign currency can be, not only because of the foreign-currency denominated obligations, but also because this ... See full document

... By Arrangements may provide incentives for governments to adopt better policies, despite their lack of popularity, and thus reduce the probability of default. Lane and Phillips (2000) even make a case that analysts have ... See full document

... Esta adecuación de las reglas del juego de la integración para responder a las asimetrías y a los cam- bios en las realidades nacionales, puede entenderse, según se la observe desde la p[r] ... See full document

... O livro Regional Monetary Policy de Car- los J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, da Universidade de La Laguna, publicado pela Routledge em 2006, tra- ta de tema extremamente relevante, mas pouco estudado na literatura ... See full document

... As it is well known, the primary instrument of monetary policy under IT is the short-term interest rate (Selic, in Brazil), which is set by the Central Bank following some kind of monetary policy rule. Usually, ... See full document

... First and foremost, the formation of Brazilian soybean plant breeders. Graduation of agronomic engineers by ESALQ began in early twentieth cen- tury, and later on by the Higher School of Agriculture and Veterinary, ... See full document

... Using as primary criteria the size of the state and the degree of regulation aimed at promoting economic development and at protecting work and reducing economic inequality, I identify three models of capitalist society ... See full document

... In developing countries financial crises are usually balance-of-payment or cur- rency crises, not banking crises. Although the large current account deficits of the United States, coupl[r] ... See full document

... No sentido de proporcionar uma solução para o problema fiscal, os autores apontam, co- mo exemplo, o Plano Real, que somente eliminou a inflação no Brasil após implementação de um[r] ... See full document

... O equacionamento do volumoso endivida- mento interno e externo, a erradicação de um processo de inflação crônica com suas mazelas sociais e a atenuação das taxas de desemprego cíclico[r] ... See full document

... On the other hand, a collapse of the Eurozone, possibly accompanied by a global financial crisis, would push Germany into another recession which would probably be more severe than the[r] ... See full document

... There are also some studies measuring the wage differential between private and public sector in Brazil. They usually rely on cross-sectional data. Macedo (1985) compares wages in state-owned companies with wages ... See full document

... in Brazil, India and Sou- th Africa since the early ...in Brazil and Argentina”, e compara a experiência das du- as principais economias da América do ... See full document

... In some Latin American countries the exporting activity starts at a regional level, with producers only later venturing into more competitive markets. The implicit risk is that a country might never progress from the ... See full document

... in Brazil that persists today; (iii) and more importantly by demonstrating that the educational policies of the military period created the most signiicant negative path dependency in Brazilian ... See full document

... There are several factors that can justify the assumption of a strongly vertical IS line and that seem relevant for the Brazil. First, as pointed by Lopes (2011), the investment function itself may be to a large ... See full document

... Intergovernmental relations in Brazil evolved in a way as not to favour coop- eration. As states and municipalities accumulate victories over federal government in Congress they developed the belief that it was ... See full document

... O que todos devem estar se perguntando é quem seriam os Maus Samaritanos e por que são assim chamados? Ha-Joon retirou a idéia do no- me de seu livro de uma parábola da Bíblia, sobre um homem que foi roubado na estrada e ... See full document

... Partindo desse diagnóstico, os autores bus- cam comparar a evolução das variáveis econômi- cas fundamentais à caracterização do risco sistê- mico no Brasil e em países que obtiveram suce[r] ... See full document

... [1994-1995], Brazil [1998], Argentina [1995], Venezuela [1994-1995] for example), leading to problems of balance of payments (dimension 3) and an increasing distrust of state disengagement policies promoted by ... See full document