This paper investigates the hypothesis of income convergence clubs among 722 municipal districts in Minas Gerais, evaluating the role of important economic and social variables, such as human capital, distribution of income and poverty, size of the economy, income and regional location in the...

Public debt management has gained prominence over the last years. The pursuit of an adequate public debt composition is critical to the objective of minimizing long term financing costs, while ensuring the maintenance of prudent risk levels. In this sense, we devise a benchmark for the public...

The aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of health conditions on the earnings of Brazilians. We have identified three ways through which health conditions affect workers’ earnings: labor force participation, hourly wages and weekly hours worked. A measure of the welfare reduction due to...

Esse livro inaugura uma nova etapa do Exame da Associação Nacional de Centros de Pós-graduação em Economia (ANPEC), rumo à sua profissionalização. Os autores presenteiam a comunidade acadêmica de economia com a resolução de todas as questões contidas nas provas de Microeconomia...

This paper presents the theoretical and empirical aspects of a monetary union between Brazil and Argentina based on the concept of Optimal Monetary Union. The behavior of some Brazilian and Argentinean macroeconomic indicators such as total debt, public deficit, interest rate and inflation rate...