The debate between structural and reduced-form approaches has generated substantial controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public economics that combines the advantages of reduced-form strategies - transparent and credible identification - with an important...

One of the most heated debates concerning the standards of protection for foreign investment seems to have taken the wrong track and never looked back. The lapse relates to the question whether the concepts of “fair [or ‘just'] and equitable” treatment and “full protection and...

This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling...