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Three essays in economic development and growth

Pereira de Meneses Vaz, Paulo

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Title
Three essays in economic development and growth
Author(s)
Pereira de Meneses Vaz, Paulo
Issue Date
2014-09-16
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Parente, Stephen L.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Parente, Stephen L.
Committee Member(s)
  • Baer, Werner W.
  • Dias, Daniel
  • Cavalcanti, Tiago
Department of Study
Economics
Discipline
Economics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2014-09-16T17:17:20Z
Keyword(s)
  • Economic Development
  • Financial Frictions
  • Transitional Dynamics
  • Structural Transformation
  • Discovery of Natural Resource
Abstract
This dissertation is composed by three chapters. The first chapter regards an empirical evaluation of a type of development policy adopted in Brazil, which provides general insights into the causal effect of relaxing financial frictions on firms productivity. The second chapter concerns rationalizing Brazil's uneven development path over the postwar period through the lens of a Neoclassical growth model and its transitional dynamics. In the third chapter, a class of models of resource curse that can disentangle price and quantity effects of the discovery of raw natural resources is discussed.
Graduation Semester
2014-08
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