In this paper, we analyze the productivity of farms across n = 370 municipalities located in the Center-West region of Brazil. We propose a stochastic frontier model with a latent spatial structure to account for possible unknown geographical variation of the outputs. This spatial component is...

A especificidade deste trabalho é tentar fazer uma mensuração da produtividade do trabalho na indústria brasileira entre 1990 e 2009, considerando a cadeia produtiva e as relações intersetoriais de cada setor industrial – não o setor isolado; a produtividade do trabalho devido apenas...

Este trabalho investiga o efeito de choques monetários e cambiais sobre a dinâmica de preços desagregados do Índice Nacional de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo (IPCA), de 1999 a 2011. Para tanto, os resultados foram analisados com o emprego de um modelo de autorregressão vetorial estrutural...

This paper presents a non-technical overview of the recent investment literature with a special emphasis on the connection between technological progress and the investment decision. First of all, we acknowledge that some dramatic advances have been made in the 1990s in understanding and...

Objetivo deste trabalho é analisar como três unidades técnico-científicas e gerenciais da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) adotaram o modelo de gestão do conhecimento para a administração pública brasileira (MGCAPB) e a metodologia de implementação da gestão do conhecimento (GC)...

This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expected revenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It provides and compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observed demands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...

In this article we use the theory of conditional forecasts to develop a new Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) for Brazil and compare it to the ones constructed using the methodologies suggested by Bernanke and Mihov (1998) and Batini and Turnbull (2002). We use Sims and Zha (1999) and Waggoner and...

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990’s. In 2000, about one fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than one...

Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend for younger cohorts in Brazil. We argue in this paper that the reduction in economic discrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on this result. Using the Brazilian National Household...

The objective of this article is to characterize the housing conditions in Brazilian urban areas during the 1990s, based upon housing and urban indicators derived from the 1992-1999 IBGE National Household Surveys (PNAD) microdata. The paper intends to be useful as a first attempt to systematize...