LEGALISATION COSTS, CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR* (2008)
António Antunes, Tiago Cavalcanti
It is known that the informal sector size depends on the development level of a country. Table 1 presents estimates for the dimension of the informal sector of selected countries. In the United...
Assessing the 'Engines of Liberation': Home Appliances and Female Labour Force Participation
Cavalcanti, Tiago, Tavares, José
The secular rise in female labour force participation, highlighted in the recent macroeconomics literature on growth and structural change, has been associated with the declining price and wider...
Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size
Cavalcanti, Tiago, Tavares, José
The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an...
Women Prefer Larger Governments: Female Labor Supply and Public Spending
Jose Tavares, Tiago Cavalcanti
The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy: an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in...
Business cycle and level accounting: the case of Portugal
C68, E32, O47, Depression, Business cycles, Development,
The Effect of Financial Repression & Enforcement on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
António Antunes, Tiago Cavalcanti, Anne Villamil
This paper studies the effect of financial repression and contract enforcement on entrepreneurship and economic development. We construct and solve a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous...
Computing General Equilibrium Models with Occupational Choice and Financial Frictions
António Antunes, Tiago Cavalcanti, Anne Villamil
This paper establishes the existence of a stationary equilibrium and a procedure to compute solutions to a class of dynamic general equilibrium models with two important features. First, occupational...
The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate
Cavalcanti, Tiago, Tavares, José
Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates...
ACCOUNTING FOR LABOR INCOME DIFFERENCES IN BRAZIL: THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL
Juliana Ferraz Guimarães, Tiago Cavalcanti, Raul Silveira Neto
Religion in macroeconomics: a quantitative analysis of Weber’s thesis
Tiago Cavalcanti, Stephen Parente, Rui Zhao
Religion, Growth, Industrial revolution, O11, O41, Z12,
The effect of financial repression and enforcement on entrepreneurship and economic development
Antunes, António, Cavalcanti, Tiago, Villamil, Anne
A general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents (with respect to wealth and ability) shows that differences across countries in intermediation costs and enforcement generate differences in...
Computing general equilibrium models with occupational choice and financial frictions
Antunes, António, Cavalcanti, Tiago, Villamil, Anne
This paper establishes the existence of a stationary equilibrium and a procedure to compute solutions to a class of dynamic general equilibrium models with two important features. First, occupational...
Computing General Equilibrium Models with Occupational Choice and Financial Frictions
António Antunes, Tiago Cavalcanti, Anne Villamil
This paper establishes the existence of a stationary equilibrium and a procedure to compute solutions to a class of dynamic general equilibrium models with two important features. First, occupational...
The Effect of Financial Repression & Enforcement on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Antonio Antunes, Tiago Cavalcanti, Anne Villamil
This paper studies the effect of financial repression and contract enforcement on en-trepreneurship and economic development. We construct and solve a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous...