and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …

more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal …, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation … ; matching models ; labor market search ; inflation persistence ; real wage rigidity …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … ; Brazil …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the …. -- Family health program ; mortality ; household behavior ; impact evaluation ; Brazil …

program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall …

on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon …