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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Investigation

Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2013

The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...

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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States

Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - CESifo - 2006

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 …

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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship

Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - CESifo - 2010

We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …’s largest export market while Brazil’s export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …

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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis

Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2010

We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm’s exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...

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On the Fiscal Strategies of Escaping Poverty-Environment Traps (and) Towards Sustainable Growth

Dao, Nguyen Than; Edenhofer, Ottmar - CESifo - 2014

An economy with clean and dirty intermediate inputs may fall into a trap characterized by low environmental quality and low life expectancy, while the others converge to opposite steady states. We propose new strategies towards sustainable growth. They include: (i) taxes (subsidies) imposed on...

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Uncertainty and Fiscal Policy in an Asymmetric Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - CESifo - 2008

The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...

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Taxation, Corruption and the Exchange Rate Regime

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption and improve the fiscal system. A monetary union,...

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Spend-and-tax: A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...

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Government Deficits in the European Union: An Analysis of Entry and Exit Dynamics

Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - CESifo - 2009

The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...

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Fiscal Policy Reaction to the Cycle in the OECD: Pro- or Counter-Cyclical?

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

This paper analyses the reaction of fiscal policy to the cycle in OECD countries. The results suggest that while overall government balances were counter-cyclical in the past and more so in economic downturns than in upswings, discretionary fiscal policy was neutral on average. However,...

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