This paper analyses the role of relationship among suppliers and buyers of inputs in condition of bilateral oligopoly, using the kaleckian concept of monopoly degree. It finds that the tradeoff among sectors alters the degree of monopoly of the sectors, and consequently of the economy as a...

Tendo em vista o padrão de comércio da economia brasileira, o aumento paulatino daparticipação de bens importados na oferta de produtos industriais no País é simples einexorável decorrência lógica do processo de abertura. Mas a resistência política a esseaumento de participação das...

This paper focuses on the use of imported inputs and on the importance of export revenues to Brazilian manufacturing firms and points out the implications of these results from the viewpoint of the insertion of the Brazilian industry in global value chains. It is based on information from the...

We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life expectancy; infant survival rate; years of life recovered from diseases; population; area) from the health system of Brazilian and OECD countries with an expenditure measure (health...

The following study uses two approaches to judge whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...

This paper tests Phillips curves using an autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) specification that encompasses the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC), the Hybrid Phillips curve (HPC), the Sticky-Information Phillips curve (SIPC), and the accelerationist Phillips curve (APC). We use data from...