Macroeconomic Policy
Mostrando 25-36 de 83 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Global booms and busts: how is Brazil's middle class faring?
Brazil's Post War economic history has been marked by inflationary booms and busts, which kept large parts of the population poor, as income distribution remained highly skewed, and most governments failed to put enough efforts and resources into education and health. That seems to have changed recently, as an increasing number of studies have shown consider
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Publicado em: 2010-09
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26. Price-setting policy determinants: micro-evidence from Brazil
The paper studies the frequency of price changes from a survey data on Brazilian companies. The data set has the advantage of including all of the economic sectors: agricultural and food products, trading, industry and services. Strong evidence of nominal price rigidities is found on the data with average and median price durations around 10.1 and 8.1 months
Economia Aplicada. Publicado em: 2010-06
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27. China: estabilidade e crescimento econômico
China: stability and economic growth. China experienced an extraordinary economic growth since 1978, while keeping inflation low. Which are the main determinants for this performance and to what point has macroeconomic policy been responsible? Obviously, many factors have been important although none of them may be appointed as the sole determinant. The pape
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Publicado em: 2010-06
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28. Transparência do banco central: uma análise para o caso brasileiro
Central Bank transparency: an analysis of the Brazilian case. Nowadays there is a tendency among central banks of increasing transparency in the conduction of the monetary policy. After the adoption of inflation targeting in Brazil there was an increase in the communication of the Central Bank of Brazil with the public. This paper makes a brief review of the
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Publicado em: 2010-03
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29. Um estudo empírico dos ciclos político-econômicos no Brasil
The political business cycle theory suggests that economic fluctuations can be explained by the electoral calendar. Knowing that economic performance has great influence in the electorate vote decision, the incumbent may try to manipulate the economy policy in order to maximize the chances of victory of the government candidate. Empirical studies that aimed
Publicado em: 2010
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30. Uma estimativa do modelo DSGE para o Brasil com rigidez real e nominal
According to the emphasis by Dib (2003), recently there has been a growing interest in the development of economic models that outline the role of rigidities in nominal price, based on the optimizing behavior of rational agents in a dynamic, stochastic, general-equilibrium (DSGE) environment. Although, there are advantages shown by these models, it was obser
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 2010
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31. Increase, fluctuations and external debt in the economy of the United States: 1980-2000 / Crescimento, flutuações e endividamento externo na economia dos Estados Unidos: 1980-2000
This work aims to explain how the external indebtedness of the U.S. economy since the 1980s attenuated and still attenuates the macroeconomic effects originated from the tendency of the gross domestic product to stagnate. This tendency comes from the fall of the productive accumulation in its relation to the national product, explained by the growing disadva
Publicado em: 2010
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32. From old to new developmentalism in latin America
The failure of the Washington Consensus and of macroeconomic policies based on high interest rates and non-competitive exchange rates to generate economic growth prompted Latin America to formulate national development strategies. New developmentalism is an alternative strategy not only to conventional orthodoxy but also to old-style Latin American national
Publicado em: 26/06/2009
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33. Rethinking the economics of capital mobility and capital controls
This paper reexamines the issue of international financial capital mobility, which is today's economic orthodoxy. Discussion is often framed in terms of the impossible trinity. That framing distorts discussion by representing capital mobility as having equal significance with sovereign monetary policy and control over exchange rates. It also distorts discuss
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Publicado em: 2009-09
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34. Ciclos econômicos e a composição da pobreza no Brasil
This work aims to study and to analyze the impact of macroeconomic cycles over poverty composition in contemporaneous Brazilian economy (1987 2005). Specifically, intends to find answers to three questions: first, who are the demographic groups the most suffer in the recessive cycles; second, if is the economic growth enough to benefit all groups most associ
Publicado em: 2009
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35. Políticas Econômicas e Políticas de Saúde no Brasil de 1979 a 2008: três décadas de contratempos / Economic politics and health policies in Brazil from 1979 to 2008: three decades of setbacks
This research work examines the relationship between fiscal policy and federal financing of health in the last three decades from 1979 to 2008 considering the lack of macroeconomic policies, especially tax policy, that restricts the features of SUS, prevents the proper understanding of its limits of funding. Thus, the work follows the evolution of successive
Publicado em: 2009
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36. The economic geography in Brazilian food industry: investments, idle resources and cyclical dynamics (1990 - 2007) / A geografia econômica do setor agroalimentar brasileiro: investimentos, recursos ociosos e dinâmica cíclica (1990 - 2007)
This thesis analyzes the development of the Brazilian food sector in the post-1990, and its relations with the fluctuations of the Brazilian economy, with its international integration and agricultural policy. The investments, demand and idle resources has an important role. The central hypothesis is that the dynamics of the Brazilian food industry in the 19
Publicado em: 2009