This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. We hypothesise that an increase in infrastructure has an indirect effect on long-term economic growth by raising...

O trabalho analisa a evolução da política monetária desde a implementação do regime de metas de inflação no período de 1999 a 2009 com o intuito de avaliar se há diferenças na condução de política monetária entre as gestões Armínio Fraga e Henrique Meirelles. Um modelo de...

This paper explores the link between environmental policy and economic growth by employing an extension of the AK Growth Model. We include a state equation for renewable natural resources. We assume that the change in environmental regulations induces costs and that economic agents also derive...

This manuscript empirically assesses the effects of political institutions on economic growth. It analyzes how political institutions affect economic growth in different stages of democratization and economic development by means of dynamic panel estimation with interaction terms. The new...

Panel cointegration techniques applied to pooled data for 27 economies for the period 1960-2000 indicate that: i) government spending in education and innovation indicators are cointegrated; ii) education hierarchy is relevant when explaining innovation; and iii) the relation between education and...

The article suggests a new test for strong hysteresis in international trade. The variables that capture the effects of hysteresis are based on the model of Dixit (1989) with calibrations using a state-space model to determine the parameters for each point in time. These variables are then...

Este artigo analisa a relação entre infra-estrutura e produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) no Brasil entre 1950 e 2000. O estoque de capital público é utilizado como proxy para o capital de infra-estrutura. A hipótese a ser testada é a de que um aumento no estoque de infra-estrutura de...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the validity of the Taylor principle for inflation control in 12 developing countries that use inflation targeting regimes: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. The test is based on a...

Este artigo desenvolve um modelo de crescimento econômico endógeno com dívida pública onde o governo pode alocar seus gastos de diferentes formas. Assim, para aumentar gastos em educação ou infra-estrutura o governo tem de se endividar. Obtêm-se as condicões fiscais pelas quais tais...

This article develops an econometric model in order to study country risk behavior for six emerging economies (Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Korea and Indonesia), by expanding the Country Beta Risk Model of Harvey and Zhou (1993), Erb et. al. (1996a, 1996b) and Gangemi et. al. (2000)....