New edition of Brazilian Journal of Economics is on the air

The EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE) – released Number 4 of Volume 75 of the Brazilian Journal of Economics (RBE), for the months of October to December 2021.

In this edition, the following articles are published:

Expenditure and school performance: Evidence from the Financial Resources Transfer Program of the Municipality of São Paulo
Vanderson Amadeu da Rocha, Walter Belluzzo, Alexandre Chibebe Nicolella

Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity in Brazil
Marcos Araujo Marcolino, Daniela Costa

An Empirical Cross-Country Study of the Determining Factors of the Bank Spread
Fernando Nascimento Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Barros

Pro-cyclical import coefficient in Brazil
Clarissa Black

Elasticity of population (mis)reporting in Brazilian municipalities: A census tale
Enlinson Mattos, Jevuks Araujo

An RBC model of the Brazilian economy with stylized fiscal shocks
Rodrigo Mendes Pereira

About RBE

The Revista Brasileira de Economia (RBE) is the oldest economy publication in Brazil and the second oldest in Latin America. Within the universe of academic publications in Economics, RBE is considered a generalist journal, with articles on various areas of Economic Sciences.

Founded by Arizio de Viana, its first editor, and by Eugênio Gudin – one of the most influential economists in Brazilian history – the magazine welcomes any topic and methodology in its pages, as long as they are at the frontier of its field of knowledge and are guided by rigor that come from the first number.

Currently, Ricardo Cavalcanti, coordinator of the Professional Masters in Finance and Business Economics and professor at EPGE, is the editor-in-chief of RBE.