This paper aims at analyzing theoretically and empirically the role of infrastructure expenditure on economic growth in Brazil from 1986 to 2003. The hypothesis is that public infrastructure expenditures in transport are central to foster sustainable growth in Brazil. Theoretical and empirical...

The present article develops a post-keynesian macrodynamic model in which the growth rate of real income is an endogenous variable in order to analyze the effects of capital controls over macroeconomic performance of emergent economies. For such we start from the models developed by Oreiro...

The paper tried to contribute to the theory of the location of the bank services. At first, there was strong evidence showing that the bank location not only depended on economical factors. The developed model and the results found in the spatial econometrics analysis demonstrated that there is...

O presente artigo tem por objetivo explicar o elevado custo do capital no Brasil, apresentando algumas hipóteses a respeito do porque a taxa real de juros de curto-prazo e os spreads bancários são tão elevados. Nesse sentido, ao longo deste artigo pretendemos argumentar que o “problema do...