Este artigo desenvolve um modelo de geraçõess sobrepostas e crescimento endógeno com dívida pública onde o governo pode alocar seus gastos de diferentes formas. Assim, para aumentar a parcela de gastos em educação ou infraestrutura como proporção da renda o governo tem de se endividar....

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the relation among corruption, institutional quality and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – It expands the Erlich and Lui ( JPE ) endogenous growth model. From this model, institutional aspects such as judicial corruption, bureaucracy,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The authors hypothesise that an increase in...

This paper explores the link between an environmental policy and economic growth employing an extension of the Neoclassical Growth Model. We include a state equation to renewable natural resources, and consider natural resources as a component of the aggregate productivity. It is assumed that...