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The relationship between financial stability and transparency in social-environmental policies

Claudio De Moraes, André Pinto Bandeira de Mello

This work analyzes, through social-environmental reports, whether banks with higher transparency in social-environmental policies better safeguard financial stability in Brazil.

What drives the real estate market? Could behavioral indicators be useful in house pricing models?

Evangelos Vasileiou, Elroi Hadad, Georgios Melekos

The objective of this paper is to examine the determinants of the Greek house market during the period 2006–2022 using not only economic variables but also behavioral variables…

Institutions and financial development: Comparative analysis of developed and developing economies

Fernanda Cigainski Lisbinski, Heloisa Lee Burnquist

This article aims to investigate how institutional characteristics affect the level of financial development of economies collectively and compare between developed and…

Greenhouse gas emissions patterns and insertion in global value chains: a comparative study between Brazil and China (2000–2016)

Tiago Ferreira Barcelos, Kaio Glauber Vital Costa

This study aims to analyze and compare the relationship between international trade in global value chains (GVC) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for Brazil and China from 2000…

Public investment, infrastructure and private investment in Brazil: is there a crowding-in effect?

Hugo Iasco-Pereira, Rafael Duregger

Our study aims to evaluate the impact of infrastructure and public investment on private investment in machinery and equipment in Brazil from 1947 to 2017. The contribution of our…

Relatedness and regional economic complexity: Good news for some, bad news for others

Arthur Ribeiro Queiroz, João Prates Romero, Elton Eduardo Freitas

This article aims to evaluate the entry and exit of companies from local productive structures, with a specific focus on the sectoral complexity of these activities and the…

Smoking effects on labor income: new evidence for Brazil

Leandro Pinheiro Vieira, Rafael Mesquita Pereira

This study aims to investigate the effect of smoking on the income of workers in the Brazilian labor market.

Impact of extreme rainfall shocks on the educational performance of vulnerable urban students: evidence from Brazil

Francisca Letícia Ferreira de Lima, Rafael Barros Barbosa, Alesandra Benevides, Fernando Daniel de Oliveira Mayorga

This paper examines the impact of extreme rainfall shocks on the performance in test scores of students living near at-risk urban areas in Brazil.

From “dull” to “cheerful”: the relevance of Adam Smith for today

Maria Pia Paganelli

Is there a secret recipe for economic growth?

Assessing the effects of gender stereotype in STEM in a Brazilian university

Camila Alvarenga, Cicero Braga

In Brazil, over 4.7 million women enrolled in university in the year 2017. However, Brazilian women have been consistently overrepresented in humanities and care majors and…

The impact of biomass power plants on Brazilian workers’ income: a synthetic difference-in-differences approach

Daniel de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Mikael Jhordan Lacerda Cordeiro, Júlia Gallego Ziero Uhr

This research assesses the economic impact of biomass plant installations on Brazilian municipalities, focusing on (1) labor income, (2) sectoral labor income and (3) income…

Debt, economic growth and threshold effects: Evidence from developing countries

María María Ibañez Martín, Mara Leticia Rojas, Carlos Dabús

Most empirical papers on threshold effects between debt and growth focus on developed countries or a mix of developing and developed economies, often using public debt. Evidence…

Regional income inequality in Brazil: state-level Distributional National Accounts

Davi Bhering

Brazil’s regional inequality is an important topic due to the large and persistent differences in development between states and the high levels of inequality in the country…

Does extending school time reduce the juvenile pregnancy rate? A longitudinal analysis of Ceará State (Brazil)

Alesandra de Araújo Benevides, Alan Oliveira Sousa, Daniel Tomaz de Sousa, Francisca Zilania Mariano

Adolescent pregnancy stands as a societal challenge, compelling young individuals to prematurely discontinue their education. Conversely, an expansion of high school education can…

Financialization and labor discipline in contemporary capitalism

Lucas Prata Feres, Alex Wilhans Antonio Palludeto, Hugo Miguel Oliveira Rodrigues Dias

Drawing upon a political economy approach, this article aims to analyze the transformations in the labor market within the context of contemporary capitalism, focusing on the…

Pursuing a Grand Theory: Douglass C. North and the early making of a New Institutional Social Science (1950-1981)

Keanu Telles

The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some…

Contagion by COVID-19 in the cities: commuting distance and residential density matter?

Denis Fernandes Alves, Raul da Mota Silveira Neto, André Luis Squarize Chagas, Tatiane Almeida De Menezes

This study addresses the COVID-19 infection and its relationship with the city’s constructive intensity, commuting time to work and labor market dynamics during the lockdown…

Pricing-to-market of Brazilian exports: a case of vehicle currency invoicing

Sérgio Kannebley Júnior, Diogo de Prince, Daniel Quinaud Pedron da Silva

Brazil uses the dollar as a vehicle currency to invoice its exports. This fact produces a tendency toward equalizing the prices of products in dollars in the international market…