The aim of this paper was to measure for the first time the size of the Brazilian ocean economy. To do so we used the OECD methodology adapted for the Brazilian national economic accounts. An input-output matrix was developed to calculate the participation of the sectors. Multipliers of...

There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and more refined proxy. It is based on the fixed effects of...

This paper examines the price impact of trading due to expected changes in the FTSE 100 index composition. We focus on the latter index because it employs publicly-known objective criteria to determine membership and hence it provides a natural context to investigate anticipatory trading...