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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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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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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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Modigliani Meets Minsky : Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and financial fragility. We exploit a new household-level dataset that covers the joint distributions of debt, income, and wealth in the United States over the past seven decades. The...
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Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
Hanspal, Tobin - 2020
We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age, desired working hours, and household debt, but have...
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Contagion of Fear
Mitchener, Kris James - 2020
The Great Depression is infamous for banking panics, which were a symptomatic of a phenomenon that scholars have labeled a contagion of fear. Using geocoded, microdata on bank distress, we develop metrics that illuminate the incidence of these events and how banks that remained in operation...
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