It is discussed the weakening of special funds, as a mechanism for financing public policies. It operates on two fronts to support this fragilization. In the first one, innovations in the management of public resources are presented, making the funds expendable both to the linking of revenues...

Investment funds are key institutions for understanding the dynamics of a country's financial wealth and for analysing the interaction between wealth owners and the macroeconomic policy management. This text has three fundamental objectives: firstly, it seeks to construct a profit proxy of the...

Portuguese Abstract: Evoluções recentes em tecnologia levaram à evolução das formas de captação de recursos, em particular por meio dos chamados ICOs (initial coin offerings). A reação regulatória dos vários países foi extremamente diversa. O presente trabalho busca (i) explicar os...

Portuguese Abstract: Adaptado de um trecho de minha tese de doutorado, este artigo discute alguns dos riscos envolvidos na estratégia de financiamento coletivo conhecida como crowdfunding, e defende que, com algumas ressalvas, ela tem ótimo potencial para fomentar a produção de cultura de...

Portuguese abstract: A transformação digital tem sido um terreno fértil para a modernização dos serviços financeiros. O desenvolvimento de aplicações de soluções tecnológicas foi um dos principais fatores que estimularam o surgimento e o crescimento acelerado das FinTechs: startups de...

Portuguese Abstract: As “finanças descentralizadas", conhecidas também como DeFi tiveram um crescimento acelerado no mercado desde 2020, ganhando relevância e despertando o interesse de investidores. Esse crescimento, no entanto, aconteceu sem que todos os envolvidos tivessem...

This paper examines the importance of geographic distance for the occurrence of knowledge flows between countries and how this importance has been changing over time. The main channels for knowledge flows are presented and an econometric analysis conducted with a focus on knowledge flows...

The state capacity to formulate, supervise, and implement (and in some cases to evaluate) science, technology, and innovation policy is the subject of the present work. The goal is to compare state and policy capacity in Brazil, China, and Argentina to point out comparative institutional...

The analysis of the domestic content of exports has called the attention of a number of authors in the last years, with the growing importance of global value chains. As long as manufacturing production is increasingly fragmented between several countries and firms, the country responsible for...