The study analyses, through a panel data model, the determinants of the net capital flow (the net sum of direct investment, portfolio investment, financial derivatives and other investment) and its volatility for a group of nineteen emerging economies in the period of 1980-2011 and suggests a...

The objective of this is study is to assert the role of domestic financial system as mitigating of sudden stops episodes and driver of capital flows in a group of 14 emerging economies in the period of 1999-2013, especially in face of unfavorable external environment such as high international...

The aims of this paper is to construct indicators that can help economic agents to know the generals aspects of each county in terms of human development characteristics, economic development, fiscal development, banking development and economic dynamism. From these indicators, we seek to create...

This paper is a theoretical review of consumer price indices, with an emphasis on the specifics of the real estate market, highlighting advantages and limitations. It discusses the following indices of average prices: Laspeyres, Paasche, Fisher and Jevons. In addition, it presents two variations...

In this paper, we calculate for Brazil the macroeconomic aggregate called Real Gross Domestic Income (RGDI) and trading gains resulting from terms of trade changes, from 1948 to 2014. RGDI equals Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP) plus trading gains, thus incorporating terms of trade change...

The aim of this Discussion Paper was to estimate the attrition rate of rape in the health and police systems. From a joint analysis of the National Health Survey from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística...

The present work aims to analyze characteristics of home entries in criminal proceedings involving drug crimes, in order to determine whether home policing, within the context of drug policies, selectively or geographically segregates defendants who face the criminal justice system. Based on...

The prohibition of certain psychoactive drugs and the consequent police repression result in thousands of deaths from violent actions in Brazil each year. In this work, we quantify the magnitude of this problem based on some economic and public health indicators. Taking 2017 as a reference, we...

The Ministry of Health's Mortality Information System (SIM) is one of the main sources of information for measuring violent deaths and, in particular, homicides in Brazil. However, between 1996 and 2021, there were 294,752 violent deaths in which the cause was not defined (or 8,7% of the...

Do more guns cause less crime or more crime? Some authors argue that the spread of firearms encourage violent solutions to interpersonal conflicts. Other authors, however, suggest that the defensive use of gun decreases economic crime. In this paper we proposed an identification strategy to...