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Territorial economic impacts of climate anomalies in Brazil
Porsse, Alexandre Alves; Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; … - 2013
Climate variability is one of the main environmental causes of losses to the agricultural sector. Most of the methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In this paper we use an alternative approach in which a...
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A spatial economic model and spatial econometric analysis of population dynamics in Brazilian MCAs
Silva, Diego Firmino Costa da; Elhorst, J. Paul; … - 2015
To extend existing population growth models, this article proposes a theoretical setting including spatial interaction effects. Using data pertaining to 3659 Brazilian Minimum Comparable Areas (MCA) over the period 1970-2010, this extension is tested by estimating a dynamic spatial panel model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485125
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Index of macroeconomic performance for a subset of countries : a Kaldorian analysis from the magic square approach focusing on Brazilian economy in the period 1997 - 2012
Firme, Vinícius de Azevedo Couto; Teixeira, Joanílio … - In: Panoeconomicus 61 (2014) 5, pp. 527-542
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Stock market spread trading : Argentina and Brazil stock indexes
Batten, Jonathan A.; Szilágyi, Péter G.; Wong, … - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 50 (2014), pp. 61-76
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Central Bank policies and the debt trap
Orphanides, Athanasios - In: The Cato journal : an interdisciplinary journal of … 37 (2017) 2, pp. 223-246
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735153
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Wage adjustment in the Great Recession and other downturns : evidence from the United States and Great Britain
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Shin, Donggyun; Solon, Gary - In: Journal of labor economics 34 (2016) 1, pp. 249-291
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Jobless recoveries during financial crises : is inflation the way out?
Calvo, Guillermo; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Ottonello, Pablo - In: Macroeconomic and financial stability : challenges for …, (pp. 331-379). 2014
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The use of forest resources versus economic growth in Brazil : is possible to reach a balance? : paper to be presented at the 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Associa...
Bacha, Carlos José Caetano - 2011
This article analyzes how forest resources have been used in Brazil since 1930, in an attempt to prove two hypotheses … emphasizes that Brazil is destroying them on a large scale in different intensities among the Brazilian states. The latter has …. Finally, the article discusses some policies that allow the rational use of forest resources in Brazil without hindering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539278
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The non-linearity of the relationship between human capital and exports in Brazil : evidences of regional differences : paper to be presented at the 51st European Congress of the R...
Fraga, Gilberto Joaquim; Bacha, Carlos José Caetano - 2011
The study of Brazilian export determinants is a very important issue to policy-markers, principally when the export determinants are different among the Brazilian states or regions. Human capital (measured by the average level of employee formal schooling) has been one of these determinants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539280
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Openness to trade and deforestation at the Brazilian Amazon : a spatial econometric analysis
Faria, Weslem Rodrigues; Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de - 2011
The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539281