The objective of this study is to analyze the determinants of private investment, especially private participation in infrastructure, focusing on the institutional quality of emerging economies. The emerging economies analyzed (Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia,...

Fundamental education is mainly provided by municipalities according to a decentralized model in which local management transforms resources transferred by the federal government into educational results that are centrally monitored. This mode of operation is conducive to the evaluation of...

The power system regulation order that the energy dispatch is centralized by a agent - ONS - that should use a stochastic dynamic optimization model that maximize the energy is accumulated in the hydro plants. This model consider only the uncertainty of water affluence. Our first issue is...

The privatization policy for power generation system in Brazil needs that investments on new plants should be profitable. This depends on regulation rules: a) the cost of energy supplied on deficit situation; b) the normative value of energy that is the maximum value of energy for long-run...

Space-varying regression models are generalizations of standard linear models where the regression coefficients are allowed to change in space. The spatial structure is specified by a multivariate extension of pairwise difference priors, thus enabling incorporation of neighboring structures and...

The neigbohood effect was used to analyze two problems of farm activity in Brazil. The first estimate a measure of total factor productivity for 550 homogeneous micro region, that is defined as a latent variable with the spatial trend propriety. The second analyze the occupation process in the...

This paper describes the inference procedures required to perform Bayesian inference to some multivariate econometric models. These models have a spatial component built into commonly used multivariate models. In particular, the seemingly unrelated regression and vector autoregressive models are...

The high interest rates offered in Brazil can be seen as a limit for the Brazilian economic growth. This is one of the current major Brazilian debates where political and monetary authorities aim to search the causes of these high yields to suggest public policies for its reduction. This paper...

The functioning of the labor market can be represented by worker flows, and the fluctuation of these flows determines the fluctuation of unemployment. The literature measures the importance of a flow such as the proportion of the variance of long-term or stationary unemployment that is explained...

This paper is concerned with the study of Bayesian inference procedures to commonly used time series models. In particular, the dynamic or state-space models, the time-varying vector autoregressive model and the structural vector autoregressive model are considered in detail. Inference...