Three essays in economic development and growth

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Pereira de Meneses Vaz, Paulo

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parente, Stephen L.
• Baer, Werner W.
• Dias, Daniel
• Cavalcanti, Tiago

• Economic Development
• Financial Frictions
• Transitional Dynamics
• Structural Transformation
• Discovery of Natural Resource

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2014 Paulo Pereira de Meneses Vaz

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50431

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/50431