This paper examines the causality relationships between manufacturing exports and productivity for five industry groups and six world regions for the period 1989-1999. Productivity is estimated by using value-added figures, and manufacture export data are adjusted by the revealed comparative...

Nesse artigo, mediante o uso das PNADs de 1992 a 2001 examinamos, em relação ao setor privado, a dinâmica de emprego e salário no setor publico no período e mostramos algumas evidências preliminares de efeitos da introdução do Plano Real (1994) e da Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal (1998)....

This paper analyses the effects of two recent institutional changes, the "Reelection Amendment" and the Law of Fiscal Responsibility, on political budget cycles and fiscal performance of Brazilian federal states. The empirical evidence shows that (1) contrarily to previous results, the...

Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...