This work analyzes how changes in domestic and foreign macroeconomic variables can impact the Brazilian meat exports and consequently the Brazilian economy. This study is conducted mainly in two stages: a) a Vector Auto-Regression (VAR) model is used to evaluate the impact of changes in the...

To study the aggregate demand for narrow and broad money for the Brazilian economy in its most recent period, 1970 to 1983, a basic model was developed. From this model, which is a restricted one, an unrestricted del was derived. Using information from both models, the unrestrited model was used...

Redistributive policies carried out by the central government through interregional government transfers is a relevant feature of the Brazilian federal fiscal system. Regional shares of the central government revenues in the poorer regions have been recurrently smaller than the shares of central...

In this work a general purpose multisectoral economy-wide model, solved for growth rates, is constructed for the Brazilian economy. In constructing the Brazilian model, the ORANI model for the Australian Economy was chosen as the starting point and was modified in a way that it can reflect and...

Attempts to identify key sectors in an economy with input output models have been a source of considerable debate. in this paper; several old and new approaches to the problem are evaluated with reference to the Brazilian economy using the input-output models for 1959, 1970 and 1975. Two...

Using the MIBRA model, an Applied Interregional General Equilibrium Model, constructed for the Brazilian economy and its five macro regions (North, Northeast, Central West, Southeast, an South), this papers tries to identify which would be the impact of the economic growth in the Brazilian...

The methodology originally developed by Sonis, Hewings, and Miyazawa (1997) is now expanded and discussed more horoughly when applied to an interregional table at the level of the 5 macro regions of the Brazilian economy for the year of 1995. The methodology used in this work is based on a...

It is hard to think about the contributions of Michael Sonis to Input-Output Analysis without taking into consideration his joint work with Geoffrey Hewings. Both are linked together into a type n, n - inf , multiplier of theory and knowledge. This paper makes a brief presentation of the various...

In assessing the economic impact of a sector or group of sectors on a single or multiregional economy, input-output analysis has proven to be a popular method. . However, there has a problem in displaying all the information that can be obtained from this analytical approach. In this paper, we...

In the 1990s the Brazilian economy went through a lot of changes, caused mainly by the monetary stabilization and the globalization process occurred. To study the impact of this process over the Brazilian economy, one should go beyond the analysis of growth indicators, like GDP or inflation...