U S Economy
Mostrando 1-12 de 23 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Domestic coalitions in the FTAA negotiations: the Brazilian case
Abstract This paper proposes an explanation to the domestic coalitions organised in Brazil around the FTAA negotiations, which stand as a hard case for the existing theories on political cleavages: industrialists and trade unions, albeit having shared common interests in the negotiations, did not adopt a joint strategy to foster their positions. The hypothes
Contexto int.. Publicado em: 10/05/2016
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2. U.S. International Agricultural Trade Policy: Interests, Institutions and Information in the Corn Supply Chain
The purpose of this article is to analyze the U.S. international agricultural trade policy by focusing on instruments and institutional arrangements. Policy decision-making is analyzed by means of three variables: 1) how interests are mobilized; 2) how information is disseminated; and 3) how spaces are occupied in deliberation arenas. The study refers to the
Bras. Political Sci. Rev.. Publicado em: 01/04/2016
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3. Elaboração de indicadores bibliométricos a partir de patentes de nanotecnologia
The need to assign values to consumer and globalization have created a new format in the economy. These phenomena have increased investments in technology until the crisis of 1970 that generated a reduction in economic growth and consequently reduction in research funding. This context created resources that could gauge the areas that lacked development. One
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 27/02/2012
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4. The effect of social security, health, demography and technology on retirement
This article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of the elderly and investigates the factors that may account for the increase in retirement in the second half of the last century. We develop a life-cycle general equilibrium model with endogenous retirement that embeds Social Security legislation and Medicare. In- dividuals are ex ante
Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV. Publicado em: 24/02/2012
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5. A Common-Feature Approach for Testing Present-Value Restrictions with Financial Data
It is well known that cointegration between the level of two variables (labeled Yt and yt in this paper) is a necessary condition to assess the empirical validity of a present-value model (PV and PVM, respectively, hereafter) linking them. The work on cointegration has been so prevalent that it is often overlooked that another necessary condition for the PVM
Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV. Publicado em: 24/02/2012
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6. Fiscal policy and private investment: latin america in a comparative perspective
The main objective of the paper is to assess the impact of fiscal variables on private investment comparing some Latin-American economies to other advanced ones. For such purposes, the authors carry out an econometric analysis for the period 1990-2008. They make use of two dynamic panel models in which they group countries with similar characteristics and de
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Publicado em: 2012-06
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7. Arbitrage pricing theory in international markets / Teoria de apreçamento arbitragem aplicada a mercados internacionais
This dissertation studies the impact of multiple pre-specified sources of risk in the return of three non-overlapping groups of countries, through an Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) model. The groups are composed of emerging and developed markets. Emerging markets have become important players in the world economy, especially as capital receptors, but they we
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 05/09/2011
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8. Essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics
This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of elderly American males and investigates the factors that may account for the changes in retirement between 1950 and 2000. We develop a life-cycle general equilibrium model with endogenous retirement that embeds Social Security legislatio
Publicado em: 25/02/2011
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9. Indígenas urbanos y derechos culturales: los límites del multiculturalismo liberal
In this article, i assess the limits of liberal multiculturalism to describe and evaluate the reality of contemporary indians. Liberal multiculturalism structures indian identity appealing to the following five categories: ancestral territory, rural territory, wild nature, atavic cultural practices, and subsistence economy. This way of understanding indian i
Revista Direito GV. Publicado em: 2011-12
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10. Jóvenes mexicanos em medio de la crisis económica: los problemas de la integración laboral
The article analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis on the Mexican labor market, with a focus in the study of forms for participation the workers young in the labor market. Specifically, it examines how the crisis deepened, so differential, the greater vulnerability of labor and young workers, to encourage processes of precarious and unprotected w
Sociedade e Estado. Publicado em: 2011-08
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11. The Effect of social security, demography and technology on retirement
This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in retirement over the second part of the last century in the U.S. economy. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous retir
Publicado em: 21/10/2010
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12. 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