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Exchange Rate Regimes and Location
Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1997
This paper investigates the effects of fixed versus flexible exchange rates on firms’ location choices and on countries’ specialization patterns. In a two-country, two-differentiated-goods monetary model, demand, supply, and monetary (as well as exchange rate) shocks arise after wages are...
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Uncertainty, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Agglomeration
Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1998
This paper shows that exchange rate variability promotes agglomeration of economic activity. Under flexible rates, firms located in large markets have lower variability of sales, reinforcing concentration of firms there. Empirical evidence on OECD countries demonstrates (1) that the negative...
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Institutions, informality, and wage flexibility : evidence from Brazil
Estevão, Marcelo M.; Carvalho Filho, Irineu de - 2012
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The puzzle of Brazil's high interest rates
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - 2012
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The distributive effects of land title on labor supply : evidence from Brazil
Moura, Mauricio Jose Serpa Barros de; Piza, Caio; … - 2011
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On Brazil’s term structure : stylized facts and analysis of macroeconomic interactions
Alves, Luiz; Cabral, Rodrigo; Munclinger, Richard; … - 2011
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Exploration of the Brazilian term structure in a hidden Markov framework
Munclinger, Richard - 2011
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A volatility and persistence-based core inflation
Silva Filho, Tito Nícias Teixeira da; Figueiredo, … - 2015
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Filling the gap : infrastructure investment in Brazil
Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes; Goes, Carlos; Karpowicz, Izabela - 2015
efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil's infrastructure …, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil's infrastructure stock and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373918
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Intra-regional spillovers in South America : is Brazil systemic after all?
Adler, Gustavo; Sosa, Sebastián - 2012
Shocks stemming from Brazil - the large neighbor in South America - have historically been a source of concern for … policy-makers in other countries of the region. This paper studies the importance of Brazil's influence on its neighboring … setting. While trade linkages with Brazil are significant for the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay …
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