This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …

This paper discusses the reasons for Brazil.s high policy real interest rates by considering two opposing views, the … level of the policy rate in Brazil. The aim of this study is to assess whether the proposed arguments can be supported when … might be political causes of the high real interest rates in Brazil such as a politically influential rentier class. …

the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …

matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …

This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time …