This paper aims to report the construction process of Environmental Economic Accounts for Water in Brazil and its institutional articulation between national and international public and private institutions, who participated in this construction effort. It also presents the current stage of...

In this article we estimate the relationship between inflation and trade openness [e.g., Romer (1993)] using modern panel data techniques. The advantage here is that we are able to explicit test the hypothesis proposed by Terra (1998) that the negative relationship between openness and inflation...

Based on the relation between investment and domestic saving proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) to verify capital mobility, this study performs some exogeneity tests in order to determine the capacity of the FH equation of supporting and implementing economic policies in Brazil. We then...

This paper uses Brazilian quarterly data, from the period January/2002 to June/2015, to estimate the impact of taxes over gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The econometric results show a negative and statistically significant impact of the overall tax burden over per capita GDP. In...