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In this paper, the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices is explored by estimating the impact of macroeconomic announcements in the Brazilian futures market. Using intraday data from October 2008 to January 2011, results show that external macroeconomic announcements...
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In this paper, the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices is explored by estimating the impact of macroeconomic announcements in the Brazilian futures market. Using intraday data from October 2008 to January 2011, results show that external macroeconomic announcements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446420
This paper examines how monetary policy decisions in Brazil, regarding short term interest rates, have affected the term structure of interest rates. We apply an event study methodology in two distinct periods: between January 2000 and August 2003, right after the implementation of the inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009023352
The article discusses the implications of the establishment of global value chains on policymaking. The approach of value chains has emphasized the implications of trade policy derived from the diffusion of new production model. In the area of industrial policy, the focus of value chains...
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Production fragmentation - dispersion of the individual steps involved in the production of a particular good across different countries and several companies - means that the fabrication of an increasingly large number of goods is taking place in global value chains, with different patterns of...
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The main objective of this paper is to provide for more and better evidence allowing the examination of Brazil's position within Global Value Chain on leather & footwear Industry. To do so, we analyzed the pattern of international integration in Taiwan and Mexico as remarkable experiences for...
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, not only the amount devoted by governments to these actions increased as the number of trade and investment promotion …
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The purpose of this research is to examine the international insertion of Brazilian banking system, in comparison with the South Korean and Mexican experiences. Since the second half of the 1990s, these countries deepened the financial integration between their economies and international...
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the dynamics and the main features of global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from the eighties. This is an … nature and direction taken by foreign direct investment and by technical progress in the recent period, compared with its … environments conditioned different corporative strategies and investment location for multinational corporations related to main …
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This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...
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