The aim of this paper is to apply the Leontief-Miyazawa Model to the Brazilian economy and analyze the intra and inter-states flow of income that occur as a consequence of the production to attend the final demand of each state. Using this model, we will be able to see how the interdependence...

In 2004 the National Tresury Secretary received approximately R$ 11,1 billion under the designation of oil public revenues, classified according to the legislation in force as governmental participation (PGs) in the final economic results of oil and gas exploratory and production activities. In...

This article investigates the effect of Fica Vivo program for homicide control started at the end of 2002 in Belo Horizonte and currently under the command of the Government of Minas Gerais. The study uses data from the census of 2000 accomplished by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and...

One of the main social economic problems observed in the majority of countries, in particularly, in the less developed countries, is the high level of income inequality and poverty. In Brazil, these facts are especially important because our country presents one of the worst income distributions...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential role of credit market imperfections in transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Brazil. The paper uses the.nancial accelerator model, developed by Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999), where the credit channel arises via balance...

This paper analyses the effects of agricultural productivity gains on the industrialization process and on the long run growth rate of the economy. The model used for analysis allows endogenous gains in agricultural productivity via learning-by- doing and, besides that, it is assumed that...

This paper attempts to construct a broader measure of welfare that takes in account the access people have to some public goods. If the data on household access to public goods and private assets is assumed to be the result of a maximization problem, a latent indirect utility level may be...

The present work aims to investigate the dynamic interactions between capital flows, public debt, country risk, interest rate differential and stock of foreign exchange in Brazil in the period 1995-2004. The vector autoregressive model (VAR) and the vector error correction model (VEC)...

This paper aims to investigate, using data on both the placing of automobile dealers and automobile demand and supply variables, the effects of new automobile dealers' entry in previously monopoly markets. First, we identify relevant variables which influence the existence and the number of...

The main purpose of the present article is to reflect on the relations between urban infrastructure, housing and environment through the analysis of intracity indicators georefered according to districts of the city of São Paulo. The selected variables to identify these aspects of the quality...