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Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … high. Thus, the large homicide shift in Brazil is produced by a particularly large and socially fragile cohort. …
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In 2004, in the beginning of the first president Lula mandate, a complete regulatory reform of electricity was launched. In 2008, four years after, Brazilian Congress started an investigation of the causes of Brazilian relatively high electricity tariffs. The results of the investigation pointed...
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Este capítulo sobre a economia imperial é de caráter introdutório e está dividido em dez seções, além desta introdução. O objetivo é colocar em perspectiva as análises mais detalhadas referentes à política econômica durante o período republicano que compõem os demais capítulos...
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Este capítulo abarca um longo período entre marcado por três golpes de estado. O primeiro golpe, em 1930, determinou o fim da República Velha e o início de um período de quinze anos de preeminência política de Getúlio Vargas, primeiro como chefe do Governo Provisório, depois como...
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No Brasil, o efeito mais grave da recente crise econômica mundial adveio da onda de afrouxamento generalizado de restrições orçamentárias que teve origem nas economias avançadas. A crise deu ao governo pretexto para mudanças substanciais no regime fiscal e nas relações entre o Estado e...
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Unlike common wisdom, sterilized FX purchases under inflation targeting, i.e., those that keep the interest rate at the level targeted by the central bank, generally increase aggregate demand. We resort to a simple model with a credit channel to argue that FX purchases, by funding bank credit,...
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Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...
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first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world …
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Few developing countries have adopted an Unemployment Insurance (UI) program but the list of countries considering its implementation is growing. Focusing on the Brazilian UI program and using administrative data covering the universe of formal employment, we provide empirical evidence...
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Since the conquest of hyperinflation, with the Real Plan, in 1994, the Brazilian financial system has grown from early infancy to late adolescence. We describe the process of maturing with emphasis on the defining features of the Brazilian financial system over the last 20 years: 1)...
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