The main goal of this PhD dissertation is to empirically investigate the Dutch disease hypothesis for the Brazilian economy from 1995 to 2009. In order to pursue this, the work examines the following question: Is there any evidence capable of corroborating the relationship between commodity export specialization and the real exchange rate appreciation in Brazil during the recent period? The hypothesis of the wo...
The main goal of this work is to develop an empirical investigation for the Brazilian States real per capita GDP growth from 1992 to 2009 using panel data and fixed/random effect and GMM estimation. The econometric results indicate the existence of a positive and significant relation for industry and manufactory industry GDP, the relative participation of the industry in the valued added, but not for the relati...