This study sought to analyze the impact of the country risk shock on the Brazilian economic cycles post-inflation targeting regime. For this, we used a SOE-RBC model proposed by Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2003) modified to ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) in regards to the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions reduction on the first and early second decades of 2000s. It has also taken into account the institutional, ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics and regulation of the fuel retail market in order to analyze the behavior of the prices practiced by retailers of liquid fuel (Hydrous Ethanol and Gasoline ...

Corn production is one of the main economic activities in Brazil and it is used in the domestic and foreign markets. In addition, Brazil’s corn production has an important growth potential, therefore, more economic agents-like ...

The feeling of (un) security as an object of study in the social sciences and psychology is a vast field for investigation of causes and consequences. In this work the investigation is conducted from the point of view of ...