Economics

Three main questions guide this research project with the objective of verifying if increases in specific spending categories can be observed before elections whereas other types of spending are reduced by governors in Argentinean provinces and in Brazilian states. The first one asks if since the democratization elections have served as a stimulus to change the composition of spending by governments in Argentinean provinces and in Brazilian states. Secondly, are governor elections in the immediate aftermath of the democratic transition more prone to provoke sudden changes in budget allocations to specific types of spending, again in the provinces and the states? Finally, what is the impact of federalism on the fiscal behavior of Argentinean provinces and Brazilian states in election years? In order to answer these questions, this project will explore how the elections for governor influenced the composition of spending in Argentinean provinces and states in Brazil from the beginning of democratization through to 2009.

From Lorena Guadalupe Barberia e George Avelino Filho.

This work calculates and decompounds the productivity variation of industrial sectors in different countries by applying a methodology that could foster a comparison of productivity variation over time. The Brazilian team, formed by Adriana Schor and Marc Muendler, is responsible for assessing the situation of firms over time and to calculate and decompound industrial productivity.

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Novaes obtained his degree in Economics from FEA-USP in 2004, and earned his masters degree from FGV-EESP in 2007. He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest are: quantitative methods and comparative politics, focusing especially Latin America. He currently studies party organization and adaptation.

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Barberia is a Doctor Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, principal researcher of the Research Center for Comparative and International Studies (NECI), principal researcher of the Center for Studies in Public Policy and Public Sector Economics (CEPESP) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, and a research associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She received her doctoral degree from Getúlio Vargas Foundation-EAESP in Government and Public Administration, a Master degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked in Ecuador and Panama as a Junior Economist and in research projects dealing with economies in transition at the Harvard Institute for International Development. From 2001 to April 2011, she was Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) from Harvard University.
 

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Professor da Silva received his degree in Economics from University of São Paulo in 1999, a masters degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 2002 and a doctoral degree in Government and Public Administration from Getulio Vargas Foundation-SP, in 2009, with a doctoral visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently the coordinator of the undergraduate courses in Economics and International Relations at the Álvares Penteado School of Commerce Foundation. His field of interest is Economics, especially Political Economy, in the following themes: participatory budgeting, electoral rules and legislative behavior.
 

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Schor holds an Economic Sciences degree from University of São Paulo (1991), a Masters degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1997), a doctoral degree in Economics from University of São Paulo (2003) and a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford University (2006). Her field of interest is Economics, especially Economic Growth, Fluctuations and Planning, in the following themes: productivity, trade liberalization, import tariffs, micro economy, industry and Brazil.
 

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