Economic growth and balance-of-payments constraint in Brazil: An analysis of the 1995–2013 period

The purpose of this work is to analyze the balance-of-payments-constrained growth in Brazil considering Thirwall’s Law (1979). To this end, we estimate export and import demand functions using two econometric models: vector error correction and structural state space model for the period of 1995–201...

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Main Authors: Marcos Tadeu Caputi Lélis, Eduarda Martins Correa da Silveira, André Moreira Cunha, Andrés Ernesto Ferrari Haines
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:EconomiA
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758016301266