The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according to IBGE (2000) database. Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities...

The Paraná State municipalities show a great of disparity in the level of development. The GDP per worker difference between the most and the least developed cities in the beginning of this millennium was superior to 700%, according to IBGE (2000) database. Therefore, studies to detect the...

This study aims at contributing on the literature of unequal economic development in two ways. Firstly, it attempts to make a theoretical contribution regarding some elements that determine the unequal development: the Post Keynesians financial factors and the NeoSchumpeterians and ECLAC-UN...

Taking as a point of departure the classical model of Schumpeterian competition proposed by Nelson and Winter, this work expands it by including two sectors and a North-South dynamics, with a view to analyzing how institutions and technological regimes affect the processes of convergence and...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate volatility in emerging and developing countries. We pointed out channels of influence of exchange rate volatility on the growth of economies, through investment, trade flows, asymmetric shocks and capital...

A relação entre abertura comercial e crescimento econômico tem sido objeto de muitos estudos aplicados, mas ainda não há consenso sobre a existência e a direção da causalidade entre estas duas variáveis. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a relação entre comércio...

O presente trabalho objetiva analisar empiricamente as relações entre crescimento econômico e abertura da conta financeira do balanço de pagamentos, tendo como lementos centrais a restrição imposta pelo Balanço de Pagamentos ao crescimento econômico, bem como s dificuldades associadas à...

The aim of this paper is to carry out an empirical analysis about the relation between Liberalization of Capital Account and Economic Growth having as study object the experience of 16 countries of Latin America with annual data for the period 1986-2000. As econometrical methodology, a dynamic...

The international financial instability of the 1990 has been analysed in several occasions on Minskyan perspectives. The paper is based on this theoretical approach and intends to demonstrate that the financial fragility hypothesis is very useful to the analysis of the cycle in peripheral...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the different channels in which human capital affects income level and growth and to use a proxy of human capital variable that incorporates quantitative and qualitative aspects of this factor. The human capital proxy that will be used is years of...