Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which … productivity performance of the operators. Therefore, we elaborate a detailed analysis of the productivity performance of the …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …

conceptualised as news about a future slowdown in productivity growth in the tradable sector. Simulations show that the responses of …' for tradable producers before the slowdown in tradable sector productivity associated with Brexit occurs. Resources are … the productivity decline in the tradable sector materialises. The negative news about tradable sector productivity also …

Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …