"Traces evolution of US investment in Brazil from 1950-90. Discusses its role in creation of the Brazilian business environment. Contains a chapter on American English expressions that have contributed to the 'language of business' in Brazil, and appendices that include lists of US firms...

This article verifies the occurrence of a real estate bubble in the Brazilian economy. Overall, our results suggest the existence of a bubble in the real estate sector of the economy. The Austrian School of economics provides a solid explanation to this phenomenon, which are reinforced by...

This article investigates the effects of monetary policy shock in the Brazilian real state market using structural VAR through the period June/2000 to August/2010. The identification is done following the agnostic procedure suggested by Uhlig (2005). The mains results are: The stock of credit to...