A presidential election process can generate rational expectations of a ‘risk premium’ among investors, with a speculative bias due to political uncertainty, allowing for the occurrence of explosive behavior in stock prices. ...

Climate change is a reality and its effects directly affect society, including the production of food and commodities. Given this scenario, the need to face the consequences of climate change leads to studies to verify ...

Inflation can be affected by several transmission mechanisms, which can change over time. The world's productive matrix has oil as the predominant primary energy source, thus, fluctuations in its price impact the economic ...

Deforestation in the Legal Amazon region is one of the main factors generating greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions can be minimized with the efficient use of areas destined for agriculture in the region. Given ...

The objective of this research is incorporate environmental conditions in a synthetic index of well-being for the counties beyond traditional dimensions of income, education and health in order to contribute to the diagnosis ...

This research has focused to the recent dynamics of rural Brazil where activities related to non-agricultural occupations have shown an increasing importance face to agricultural occupations, in terms of absorption of labor ...

The present study aims to estimate the supply of environmental services Sorocaba Rivers Basin and Middle Tietê, located in the central-southeastern state of Sao Paulo. The focus of the environmental service is given to the ...

Market regulation brings on the expectation that government's intervention improves the economy. For example, the assumption that competitive environments enable efficient allocation of resources influences the development ...

Given the complexity of financial instruments currently in use, the purpose of this study is to examine, according to the proposed economic theory of Hyman P. Minsky, the factors that led to the recent financial crisis, ...

This work had as its objective, by the means of a historic reconstruction of the history of econometrics, with emphasis on its business cycle models, to introduce the concept of performativity to the analysis of economic ...