Este artigo desenvolve um modelo de geraçõess sobrepostas e crescimento endógeno com dívida pública onde o governo pode alocar seus gastos de diferentes formas. Assim, para aumentar a parcela de gastos em educação ou infraestrutura como proporção da renda o governo tem de se endividar....

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the relation among corruption, institutional quality and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – It expands the Erlich and Lui (JPE) endogenous growth model. From this model, institutional aspects such as judicial corruption, bureaucracy,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The authors hypothesise that an increase in...

Moral concepts affect crime supply. This idea is modelled assuming that illegal activities is habit forming. We introduce habits in a intertemporal general equilibrium framework to illegal activities and compare its outcomes with a model without habit formation. The findings are that habit (i)...

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...

The main purpose of this paper is the empirical investigation of the business cycles responses of each of the five Brazilian regions to monetary policy innovations and other shocks. We applied a methodology integrating unobserved components and vector auto-regressions (VAR). We identified not...