After a long period of economic divergence before 1914, the Portuguese economy recovered slightly until 1950, entering thereafter on a path of strong economic convergence. This paper focuses on Portuguese economic growth in the period 1950-1973 in order to show how institutional decisions...

This study analyzes the specialization of a group of countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) in international trade from 2000 to 2021. For the comparison, it was calculated indicators of revealed comparative advantage (VCR),...

This study will focus on export tariff policies in the context of agricultural commodities. The main objective is to carry out a diagnosis of the use of export tariffs in Latin American countries, with particular emphasis on the Argentine experience. This type of policy is normally used with the...

This study analyzes the specialization of a group of countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) in international trade from 2000 to 2021. For the comparison, it was calculated indicators of revealed comparative advantage (VCR),...

This study will focus on export tariff policies in the context of agricultural commodities. The main objective is to carry out a diagnosis of the use of export tariffs in Latin American countries, with particular emphasis on the Argentine experience. This type of policy is normally used with the...

In this work, the coefficients that relate business climate, investments and productivity are estimated based upon a panel of 81 countries in the period between 2005 and 2011. Fixed effects panel regressions (which take into account omitted variables and, as a result, time invariant country...

It is proposed to estimate two versions of the potential output for Brazil in the period 1992-2010, through the production function and the HP filter, and use these results to: i) assess the relevance of the output gap in the monetary policy decisions (comparing the two estimates); and ii) to...

The cultivation of arboreal cotton, which represented almost a quarter of the national production and occupied half of the area harvested in the 1970s, was practically extinct, while the production of herbaceous cotton grew and consolidated since the 2000s. This study evaluated the productivity...

Technological change is a determining factor to ensure the sustainable growth of the agricultural sector in Brazil and worldwide. Since the 70s, Brazil has been able to expand the food supply, thus contributing to the supply of domestic and foreign markets. Between 1980 and 2021, grain...

Technological change is a determining factor in economic growth. Since the 1970s, Brazil has become an example in promoting agricultural research. The result was total factor productivity (TFP) growth. What would be the impact of public policies on productivity growth? The present study sought...