O presente estudo calcula as elasticidades da pobreza em relação ao crescimento econômico e à desigualdade de renda para os estados e municípios brasileiros através de um método de estimação não paramétrico, visto em Horowitz (2012) e Ai & Chen (2003), e usado por Figueiredo e Laurini...

This paper aims to examine if the use of modern protocol for time series data analysis corroborates the results found previously in the literature. Specically, we inspect the non structuralists arguments developed in the 1970s about monetary policy eects. The contributions of this paper are-(a)...

This study measures unfair inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2009. To achieve that, we used the statistical tool developed by Almås et al. (2011) and the concept of "responsibility-sensitive" fairness proposed by Bossert (1995),Konow (1996), and Cappelen & Tungodden (2007). The results...

This paper proposes the measurement of inequality of opportunity index (IOp) for Brazilian municipalities, based on data from the 2010 Demographic Census. With this, we create a base of municipal social (and state) information which can be added to the indicators provided by IPEA and João...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a evolução da desigualdade injusta brasileira entre os anos de 1995 e 2009 utilizando uma abordagem não- paramétrica na estimação da função de rendimentos. Para tanto, adotou-se uma estratégia empírica baseada em quatro passos- i) empregou-se um...

Following the suggestion of modern egalitarians, the model proposed by Alesina & Angeletos (2005) sets up a fairness rule based on composition of equality, designated by the weights of effort and luck. However, empirical evidence for a set of Latin American countries suggests that, unlike...

This paper assesses the effects of income redistribution policies on "responsibilit -sensitive" fairness levels in major Latin American countries. In doing so, the following items are analyzed- i) the fairness rule described in Bossert (1995),Konow (1996), and Cappelen & Tungodden (2007) and; ii)...

Decision makers often observe point forecasts of the same variable computed, for instance, by commercial banks, IMF, World Bank, but the econometric models used by such institutions are unknown. This paper shows how to use the information available at point forecasts to compute optimal density...

The long run PPP hypothesis was tested considering real effective exchange rate dataset for twenty countries which it was provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By focusing on a nonlinear approach, the study tests IMF monthly dataset for general and specific nonlinearities....

Conforme Alesina & Angeletos (2005) e Alesina & Glaeser (2004), as preferências por redistribuição de renda variam sistematicamente entre as diversas regiões, promovendo diferenças significativas no tamanho do governo e na composição dos gastos públicos. Nesse contexto, esse artigo...