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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United … States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … issue of overall inequality as perceived by citizens within a nation. China and India show rising inequality in terms of …

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Preventing competition because of “solidarity”: Rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain

Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Spain is the only large European country in which airport management is strictly centralized and publicly owned. This peculiar institutional setting prevents competition among Spanish airports, and policy makers and bureaucrats in charge of the system regularly justify it on grounds of...

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A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables For Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence From Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …

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Exchange Rate Floating and Inflation Targeting Implementing - Lessons from a succesful transition - The Brazilian Case

Deheza, Juan Carlos Soldano - EconWPA - 2003

El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...

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The Impact of an Old Fleet on the Demand for Air Transportation: The Case of VASP Brazilian Airlines

Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005

Brazil, VASP used to be second place. With financial problems, VASP could not buy new airplanes and its fleet was from the 70 …

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Canaries and Vultures: A Quantitative History of Monetary Mismanagement in Brazil

Albuquerque, Pedro H.; Gouvea, Solange - EconWPA - 2005

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Brazil went through a sequence of failed stabilization plans that …

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The Brazilian Currency Turmoil of 2002: A Nonlinear Analysis

Goretti, Manuela - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the main sources of instability in Brazil during the currency and financial distress episode of …

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125721

Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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