This report presents an analysis of the patterns of trade intra-firms and the determinants of the Brazilian exports. The main objective is to verify whether export firms with foreign capital interact with their mother companies in the country of origin of their capital. The results suggest...

"This paper examines the effects of inflation targeting on industrial and emerging economies' output growth over the "globalization years" of 1986-2004. Controlling for trade openness and two indicators of financial globalization, the authors find systematic positive and significant effects of...

A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. This paper investigates the degree of...