This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s...

In this paper we look at the interplay of technology and social preferences in different stages of economic development. We use a set of input-output tables for 32 different countries, published by OECD. The tables refer to the period 1996-2001 and were consolidated in 48 sectors so that...

This paper relates an ongoing experience of developing and transferring the knowledge required to understand and operate a regionally disaggregated supply and use input-output model. This R&D project is financed by ANEEL, the Brazilian regulatory agency for electricity generation and...

This work analyses the impacts of the implementation of transportation infrastructure projects over the regional and national economic growth. The methodological framework consists in the integration of a transportation model with an inter-regional applied general equilibrium model. The...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar o efeito dos gastos sociais e de investimentos públicos e privados no desenvolvimento e crescimento da Economia Brasileira. A hipótese básica verificada neste trabalho é que as políticas adotadas pelo governo federal são...

In this paper, two literatures that have explored the structure of economies are brought together. In the first case, the approaches to key sector identification (initially associated with Hirschman and Rasmussen) that were modified by Cella, Clements and Rossi and Guilhoto et al. to reveal what...

In this paper, using a set of interregional input-output tables built by the authors for the year of 1992 for 2 Brazilian regions (Northeast and rest of the economy), attention is focused on a new approach to the interpretation of Miyazawa's concepts of left and right multipliers in the...

Portuguese Abstract: Neste trabalho é feita uma revisão da literatura econômica, visando, de um lado apresentar os antecedentes da teoria de insumo-produto de Leontief, situando-a dentro da teoria do pensamento econômico, e de outro lado apresentar os princípios e a evolução desta teoria,...