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 discussion on food inflation is a highly relevant topic in the Brazilian economic debate, as it extends beyond the purely price-related issue to directly impact the population's ability to access basic food and, ...

The volatility in commodity prices has direct implications for the financial results of companies and consumers. Not infrequently, such variations occur in a sharp way, and in non-compliance with market fundamentals, that ...

The actions of speculators can generate divergences between the market price of an asset and its fundamental price, creating speculative bubbles. This study aimed to verify whether the actions of the four largest commercial ...

The arrangements of the production structure are divided by the links between sectors that interconnect the set of production chains, and these structural changes impact on the transformations of economic development. ...

The practice of physical activities has become a source of ample debates both in the academic environment and in the daily life of individuals, with respect to their benefits to physical and mental health. Despite this, ...

The goal of this work is to analyze the returns to education in the hourly wages in Brazil for the period of 2011 to 2015, last five years of PNAD data. Even thought the relationship between years of education and wages ...