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Structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s
Messa, Alexandre - 2012
This paper investigates the sources of structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s. On that purpose, it uses the input-output structural decomposition analysis and introduces a method to correct the influence of prices on the time behavior of the technical coefficients, making them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330618
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The problem of negatives generated by the commodity technology model in input-output analysis: A review of the solutions
ten Raa, Thijs; Rueda-Cantuche, José - In: Journal of Economic Structures 2 (2013), pp. 1-14
Many economic models (e.g., computable general equilibrium models, econometric input-output models) revolve around a matrix of technical coefficients. However, these matrices can be estimated only once every 5 years as long as they are calculated from input-output tables and these are only...
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435074
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Restructuring the Austrian Energy System: An Extended Technology Wedges Approach
Kettner, Claudia; Kletzan-Slamanig, Daniela; Köppl, Angela - 2011
EU climate and energy policy defines ambitious objectives for the EU member countries requiring a fundamental change of energy systems. This paper suggests basing the analysis of restructuring options on energy services instead of energy flows. In order to provide the energy services in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435325
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Factor Content of Intra-European Trade Flows
Zeddies, Götz - 2011
In recent decades, the international division of labor expanded rapidly in course of globalization. In this context, highly developed countries specialized on (human) capital intensively manufactured goods and increasingly sourced parts and components from lowwage countries. Since this should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285500
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Indirect effects - a formal definition and degrees of dependency as an alternative to technical coefficients
Coppens, François - 2005
The use of input-output analysis for the computation of secondary effects of final demand changes is well-known. These 'final demand effects' can be calculated using technical coefficients and the inverse of the Leontief matrix. This paper offers an alternative to the use of technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506589
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Tracing Brazilian regions? CO2 emissions in domestic and global trade
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim - 2015
mitigation efforts by regions is of great concern in a large country like Brazil, with substantial regional variation in economic … even to a larger extent. In order to analyze at regional level the current relationship between Brazil?s CO2 emissions and … emissions for 2008 from Brazil?s Ministry of Science and Technology. We are able to evaluate the CO2 emissions in each of the 27 …
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Can green hydrogen exports contribute to regional economic development? Exploring scenarios from the Dutch-Brazilian green hydrogen corridor for the state of Ceará
Caiafa, Clara Rabelo; Pereira, Amaro Olimpio; Romijn, Henny - 2023
To meet climate change mitigation targets, an exponential increase in global green hydrogen trade is expected. Countries rich in renewable energy resources would be in a favourable position to become exporters, potentially bringing opportunities for socio-economic development. The Brazilian...
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Insumos importados e evolução do setor manufatureiro no Brasil
Marconi, Nelson; Rocha, Marcos - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of the share of imported intermediate goods in the production process and its influence on the share of manufacturing in value added for the Brazilian economy, covering the period span 1995-2008. In a first step, we estimate input-output matrices, at constant...
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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions
Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013
In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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