Proceedings of the Conference on Transnational Corporations and Development in Brazil (2013)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section I Macroeconomics and Policies
Political and Business Cycle Theory: The Brazilian Empirical Evidence from 1997 to 2013
Julyana Covre and Thyago Américo Schio……………………………….………………………...1
The Quality of Monetary Policy in Brazil: Adherence and COPOM’s Directors Turnover Effect
Allan Silveira dos Santos, Maria Helena Ambrosio Dias and Joilson Dias………...................10
Interaction between Macroeconomics Variables and IBOVESPA, Brazilian Stock Market’s Index:
Analysis from a VEC Model
Allan Silveira dos Santos, Angelo Rondina Neto, Eliane Cristina de Araujo,
Luma De Oliveira and Mateus Boldrine Abrita……………….………….………………….……32
Influence of Exchange Variation and Demand Conditions in the Determination of IPCA in Brazil
Erica Oliveira Gonzales, Allan Silveira dos Santos, Eliane Cristina de Araujo…………...….49
Capital Controls: Empirical Analysis of Effectiveness of the IOF in Brazil
Vinicius Borba da Costa and and Eliane Cristina de Araújo Sbardellati……………………..…64
Section II International Economics and Development
Lead-Lag Effect in the Stock Market of the Member States of the BRICS
Julyerme Matheus Tonin, João Ricardo Tonin, Marina da Silva Cunha and
José Carlos Bornia…………………………………………….…………………………………….81
World Technological Competences Captured by Multinationals in Environmental Technologies
Ana Urraca-Ruiz and Gemma Durán-Romero………..………………….…………………..…..97
Dairy Agro-Industry in Brazil and Transnational Corporations: Analysis of the Opportunities
and Challenges
Joel Fiegenbaum and Júlio Eduardo Rohenkohl……….………………..……………………...116
Impacts of Demand and Technology in Brazilian Economic Growth
Elcio Cordeiro da Silva, Daniel Lelis de Oliveira, José Tarocco Filho
and Umberto Antonio Sesso Filho…………………………………………………….……….…132
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Section III
Sectional Studies and Industrial Analysis
Structural Changes and External Vulnerabilities in Brazilian Economy
Rossana Lott Rodrigues, João Carlos Lopes, João Dias and Antonio Carlos Moretto…..…141
Sectoral Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Brazil from 1996 to 2009
Giovani da Silva Oliveira, Katy Maia and Aricieri Devidé Júnior………………………..…..…159
Brazilian Dairy Products Sector in the 1990s: An Input-Output Analysis
Cleise Maria de Almeida and Emerson Martins Hilgemberg…………………………………..175
Frictions in Brazil’s Labor Market: the Role of Job Destruction
Luma de Oliveira, Joilson Dias and Maria Helena Ambrosio Dias……..……………….….....196
Agribusiness Sugar Cane in Brazil: A Case Study
Celso Daniel Seratto, Ednaldo Michellon and Natalino Henrique Medeiros…………………212
Section IV Special Topics on Brazilian Economy
Price Asymmetry and Basis Risk of BM&F Bovespa Hydrous Ethanol Future Contract: Dynamics
of Biofuels Markets in Brazilian South-Center
João Ricardo Tonin, Antonio Augusto de Jesus Godoy, Julyerme Matheus Tonin
and Joilson Dias……………………………………………………………………......…………..229
University-Enterprise Partnerships in Brazilian Amazon: Obstacles, Dilemmas and Challenges
Ana Paula Bastos, Maurício Serra, Leandro Almeida and Marcia Juca Diniz.………….……247
Income Convergence among Municipalities of Parana and Sao Paulo States
Jorge Leandro Delconte Ferreira, José Luiz Parré and Maria LuziaLomba de Sousa……...267
Human Capital and Health Status in Brazil
Letícia Xander Russo and Joilson Dias……………………………………………………….….282
Is There Bubble Price in Real Estate of Ceará? A Post-Keynesian Approach
Marcelo Miranda de Melo…………………………………….……………………………….......296
Editorial Notes…………………………………………………………………………………..………307
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