This article uses daily state information of the Social Isolation Index (SII) and recorded cases and deaths by COVID-19 for the period between March 13 and April 25, 2020 to estimate elasticities that relates these variables in Brazil. The results indicate that there was an adjustment period for...

Este artigo estuda o papel da política fiscal local no crescimento econômico de cidades. Para este fim, o artigo apresenta um modelo espacial de crescimento econômico com governo, que incorpora as contribuições das teorias do crescimento endógeno e da nova geografia econômica. O modelo _e...

This paper is an empirical study on the determinants of economic growth and population growth in Brazilian cities in the nineties. For this objective, it is used variables that represent the initial characteristics of these cities as Glaeser et alii (1995) and Glaeser e Shapiro (2003) papers....

This paper investigates criminality causes in cities and their relationship with the city size. For this goal, a formal model is presented based on Glaeser and Sacerdote (1999), however it incorporates the contributions of the ecological approach proposed by Brofenbrenner (1979). In the model,...