Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Schettini, Bernardo Patta - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 2, pp. 250-271
This paper presents econometric estimates for the Brazilian aggregate imports over the period 1996-2010. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that uses the Brazilian quarterly national accounts with this goal in mind. Besides estimating a demand equation (canonical model), as it...