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0132: Pragmatic Policy in Brazil: the Political Economy of Incomplete Market Reform

Armando Pinheiro, Regis Bonelli and Ben Schneider

0131: Economic Regulation and Cost-efficiency in Brazilian Urban Public Transport: the Case of Belo Horizonte

Alexandre Gomide

0130: Do Informal Workers Queue for Formal Jobs in Brazil?

Fabio Veras Soares

0129: Some Stylized Facts of the Informal Sector in Brazil in the 1980’s end 1990’s

Fabio Veras Soares

0128: Accounting for Brazil's Growth Experience – 1940-2002

Edmar Bacha and Regis Bonelli

0127: Challenges of the Private Health Plans Regulation in Brazil

Carlos Reis

0126: The Timing of Development and the Optimal Production Scale: a Real Option Approach to Oilfield E&P

Katia Rocha, Marco Dias and José Teixeira

0125: Distributional Effects of Optimal Commodity Taxes Combined with Minimum Income Programs in Brazil

Ana Barbosa, Eduardo Fiuza, Marcel Scharth and Seki Asano

0124: Armington Elasticities for Brazil – 1986-2002: New Estimates

Octavio Augusto Tourinho, Honorio Kume and Ana Pedroso

0123: Regulatory Reform in Brazilian Infrastructure: Where Do We Stand?

Armando Pinheiro

0122: Residential Segregation and Social Exclusion in Brazilian Housing Markets

Maria Morais, Bruno Cruz and Carlos Oliveira

0121: The Process of Public Resources Allocation for Investment in Hospital Capacities

Alexandre Marinho

0120: Demand for Housing and Urban Services in Brazil: a Hedonic Approach

Maria Morais and Bruno Cruz

0119: Automobile Demand and Supply in Brazil: Effects of Tax Rebates and Trade Liberalization on Price-marginal Cost Markups in the 1990s

Eduardo Fiuza

0118: Forecasting Brazilian Output in Real Time in the Presence of breaks: a Comparison Of Linear and Nonlinear Models

Marcelle Chauvet, Elcyon Lima and Brisne Vasquez

0117: Labor Productivity in Brazil during the 1990s

Regis Bonelli

0116: Multivariate Spatial Regression Models

Dani Gamerman and Ajax Moreira

0115: Human Resource Management and Public Sector Reforms: Trends and Origins of a New Approach

Roberto Nogueira and José Santana

0114: Fiscal Competition: a Bird's Eye View

Ricardo Varsano, Sergio Ferreira and José Afonso

0113: Brazilian Population Ageing: Differences in Well-being by Rural and Urban Areas

Ana Camarano

0112: Population and Social Security in Brazil: an Analysis with Emphasis on Constitutional Changes

Kaizô Beltrão, Sonoe Pinheiro and Francisco Oliveira

0111: Fiscal Decentralization and Subnational Fiscal Autonomy in Brazil: Some Facts of the Nineties

Mônica Mora and Ricardo Varsano

0110: Trade Liberalization and Labor Markets in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence

Jorge Arbache

0109: Reducing Schooling Inequality in Brazil: Demographic Opportunities and Inter-cohort Differentials

Carlos Velez, Sergei Soares and Marcelo Medeiros

0108: the Impacts of the Minimum Wage on the Labor Market, Poverty and Fiscal Budget in Brazil

Miguel Foguel, Lauro Ramos and Francisco Carneiro

0107: Efficient and Equitable Commodity Taxation: Micro-Simulations Based on an Estimated Brazilian Consumer Demand System

Seki Asano, Ana Barbosa and Eduardo Fiuza

0106: Explaining Agriculture Expansion and Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon – 1980/98

Claudio Ferraz

0105: Bayesian Analysis of Econometric Time Series Models Using Hybrid Integration Rules

Ajax Moreira and Dani Gamerman

0104: Core Inflation: Robust Common Trend Model Forecasting

Ajax Moreira and Hélio Migon

0103: Measuring the Tax effort of Developed and Developing Countries. Cross Country – Panel Data Analysis – 1985/95

Marcelo Piancastelli

0102: Space-varying Regression Models: Specifications and Simulation

Dani Gamerman, Ajax Moreira and Havard Rue

0101: Optimal Rules for Monetary Policy in Brazil

Joaquim Andrade and Jose Angelo Divino

0100: Robustness and Stabilization Properties of Monetary Policy Rules in Brazil

Ajax Moreira and Marco Cavalcanti

0099: Estimation of the Brazilian Consumer Demand System

Seki Asano, Ana Barbosa and Eduardo Fiuza

0098: Brazilian Agriculture in the 1990s: Impact of the Policy Reforms

Steven Helfand and Gervásio Rezende

0097: Brazilian Agriculture in the 1990s: Impact of the Policy Reforms

Francisco Oliveira and Kaizô Beltrão

0096: Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Sergio Firpo, Roberta Guedes and Phillippe Leite

0095: The Public-Private Wage Gap in Brazil

Miguel Foguel, Indermit Gill, Rosane Mendonça and Ricardo Paes de Barros

0094: The Nairu, Unemployment and the Rate of Inflation in Brazil

Elcyon Lima

0093: Poverty, Inequality and Macroeconomic Instability

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Carlos Corseuil, Rosane Mendonça and Mauricio Reis

0092: The Public-Private Wage Gap in Brazil

Sonia Rocha

0091: Labor Market and Poverty in Brazil

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Carlos Corseuil and Phillippe Leite

0090: Value Determinants of Plant Extractivism in Brazil

Sven Wunder

0089: Labor Market Regulations and the Duration of Employment in Brazil

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Carlos Corseuil and Mônica Bahia

0088: Measuring the Stability of the Price System

Antonio Fiorencio and Ajax Moreira

0087: Estimation of a Weights Matrix for Determining Spatial Effects

Elcyon Lima and Paulo Macedo

0086: Automobile Pollution Control in Brazil

Claudio Ferraz and Ronaldo Motta

0085: Investment and Uncertainty in a Quadratic Adjustment Cost Model: Evidence from Brazil

Rodrigo Pereira

0084: Labor Market Regulations and the Demand for Labor in Brazil

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Carlos Corseuil and Gustavo Gonzaga

0083: Latent Indexation and Exchange Rate Passthrough

Antonio Fiorencio and Ajax Moreira