In this article, we investigated which of the convergence hypotheses - absolute, conditional or club - best describes the movement of the income per worker for the countries of Latin America and East Asia between 1960 and 2000 using the methodology proposed by Johnson and Takeyama (2003). The...

This article applies the smooth transition autoregressive nonlinear model (STAR) proposed by Granger and Terasvirta (1993) to the Brazilian real exchange rate (RER), aiming to test the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) to Brazil. Initially a review of Brazilian and international...

This article applies the smooth transition autoregressive nonlinear model (STAR) proposed by Granger e Terasvirta (1993) to the Brazilian real exchange rate (RER), aiming to test the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) to Brazil. Initially a review of Brazilian and international...

This study aims to examine the theoretical literature concerning exchange-rate and balance-of-payments determination, in order to investigate how an exchange rate change may affect one country's foreign trade flows. Therefore, we analyze the different categories of balance-of-payments models -...

This paper has as main objective to estimate the bilateral misalignment from the methodology described by Alberola et al. (1999) for the main Brazilian trade partners. Therefore, we present the main approaches used to estimate the multilateral real exchange rates and description of the...

This paper has as main objective to estimate the bilateral misalignment from the methodology described by Alberola et al. (1999) for the main Brazilian trade partners. Therefore, we present the main approaches used to estimate the multilateral real exchange rates and description of the...