We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …

We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …

significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …

We demonstrate that the choice of the transfer price and its effect on intra-firm trade and investment depends on the …

-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …

There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment …

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …

to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient though. With generation facilities over-investment … occurs sometimes, while systematic under-investment occurs for transportation facilities. Free-riding reduces the incentives … investment. …