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Technological regimes in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: An empirical investigation

Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - 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 extensive margin of exporting products: A firm-level analysis

Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 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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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship

Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 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 structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States

Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 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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A Destination-Based Allowance for Corporate Equity

Hebous, Shafik - 2019

Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits—particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)—this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance...

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Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing

Gerard, Francois - 2019

matched employee-employer data from Brazil, we find that displaced workers eligible for both UI and SP increase consumption at …

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Effects of Carbon Pricing on Inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We study how carbon pricing has affected inflation ex-post, using dynamic panel estimation of New-Keynesian Phillips curves for 35 OECD economies from 1995 to 2020. As carbon pricing we consider prices of emissions trading systems (ETS) and carbon taxes. We find that an increase in prices of ETS...

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Policy mix and debt sustainability : evidence from fiscal policy rules

Claeys, Peter - 2005

This paper characterises rules-based fiscal policy setting. Basically, we translate a standard monetary policy rule into a simple fiscal policy rule. We then infer on fiscal policymakers' reaction coefficients by testing the rule with GMM. Interaction is also tested directly by the inclusion of...

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Do large cabinets favor large governments? : evidence from Swiss sub-federal jurisdictions

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2004

The fiscal commons problem is one of the most prominent explanations of excessive spending and indebtedness in political economics. The more fragmented a government, the higher its spending, deficits and debt. In this paper we investigate to what extent this problem can be mitigated by different...

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Has the stability and growth pact impeded political budget cycles in the European Union?

Mink, Mark; de Haan, Jakob - 2005

This paper examines whether there is a political budget cycle (PBC) in countries in the euro area. Using a multivariate model for the period 1999-2004 and various election indicators we find strong evidence that the Stability and Growth Pact has not restricted fiscal policy makers in the euro...

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