The article aims to analyze the effects of the Brazilian Simplified Tax Regime (Simples Nacional) on the longevity of manufacturing microenterprises, contributing to the current debate on the expansion of the program. Based on the RAIS (Relação Anual de Informações Sociais) microdata...

The formulation of regional CGE models demands the set up of a coherent and consistent data bank of the economy under investigation. This data bank is provided by the Social Accounting Matrix, which specifies the interdependencies between the economic agents, and the direction of the incoming...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a relação entre estrutura produtiva e crescimento econômico nas regiões do Rio Grande do Sul visando identificar a existência de economias externas locais. O estudo utiliza dados de emprego de nove setores industriais para um período de onze anos. São...

In the last two decades the financial integration between countries arose. In consequence appeared questions on different degrees of autonomy of monetary politics of these countries. The traditional sight is that interest rate is determined by offer and demand of loaned funds and that the...