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Spanish Abstract: No obstante la estrecha relación que existe entre la economía, la biología y la psicología desde finales del siglo XIX, –las principales categorías económicas tienen claras connotaciones psicológicas– la llamada “corriente principal” en economía no se ha...
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Household consumption is the most important component of gross domestic product (GDP) and its dynamics is crucial to understanding the changes in the dynamics of the economy in boom periods and crises. This paper analyzes the structure of household consumption in Brazil between the years 2000...
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Household consumption is the most important component of gross domestic product (GDP) and its dynamics is crucial to understanding the changes in the dynamics of the economy in boom periods and crises. This paper analyzes the structure of household consumption in Brazil between the years 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515749
determinants of saving rate of Brazilian families in the recent past. The main results are consistent with the predictions of the … retirement schemes and government transfers. It is evident the importance of the life cycle and transitory shocks in current … income in explaining fluctuations in the saving rate. Evidence for the existence of precautionary savings due are also found …
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determinants of saving rate of Brazilian families in the recent past. The main results are consistent with the predictions of the … retirement schemes and government transfers. It is evident the importance of the life cycle and transitory shocks in current … income in explaining fluctuations in the saving rate. Evidence for the existence of precautionary savings due are also found …
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Understand the evolution of the size and allocation of household savings throughout the life cycle is of fundamental importance in the design of public policies. In this sense, durable goods expenditure cannot be ignored as it is an important form of savings with significant participation in...
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Understand the evolution of the size and allocation of household savings throughout the life cycle is of fundamental importance in the design of public policies. In this sense, durable goods expenditure cannot be ignored as it is an important form of savings with significant participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406401
The objective of this article is to investigate whether, despite of the goal of utility maximization defended by the neo-classic economic theory, the altruism can prevail inside organizations. Initially, one brief discussion of the altruism will be presented, analyzing this concept from some...
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This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...
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Students, children under 4 years old and people aged 65 and over in Brazil are entitled to partial or full discount on urban trips using public transport systems. These discounts are not covered by public funding, but rather by the other service users who pay full-fare. In this study, we...
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