Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo atualiza, até 2003, a série 1947-1992 de imposto inflacionário, transferências inflacionárias para os bancos comerciais e transferência inflacionárias totais, anteriormente publicada em Cysne (1994) e Simonsen e Cysne (1995)

Portuguese abstract: O BNDES durante mais de 60 anos foi o responsável principal pelo financiamento de projetos de longo prazo. Nascido da extinta CMBEU, o Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico (ainda sem o S de sustentável) tinha como tarefa promover liquidez para investimentos...

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...

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...