Título:	Essays in macroeconomics and political economy
Autor(es):	Lambais, Guilherme Berse Rodrigues
Orientador(es):	Andrade, Joaquim Pinto de
Assunto:	Quilombos Persistência histórica Macroeconomia comportamental Equilíbrio espacial
Data de publicação:	26-Jun-2020
Data de defesa:	5-Dez-2019
Referência:	LAMBAIS, Guilherme Berse Rodrigues. Essays in macroeconomics and political economy. 2019. 129 f., il. Tese (Doutorado em Economia)—Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2019.
Abstract:	This thesis has three independent chapters. The first chapter shows that ethnic territories connected to slave resistance, called quilombos, are correlated with higher levels of economic development in Brazil. To understand how quilombos can affect economic activity in the long run, I propose a new mechanism where initial religious beliefs and African iron-working and other high-valued skills are perpetuated in the long run through cultural-religious intergenerational transmission. First, I divide the Brazilian territory in virtual municipality cells of approximately 11 x 11 kilometers, which makes possible an extensive use of fixed effects, and show that cells with more quilombos have more economic activity proxied by nightlights. Second, in order to analyze the mechanisms through which quilombos can affect economic development and improve identification I employ a randomization inference approach with alternative spatial configurations of counterfactual quilombos. I then show that proximity to quilombos are related to more high-skilled and metal-related occupations and a wide array of cultural-religious outcomes, such as higher cultural activities, community trust, and collective action. The second chapter is co-authored with Joaquim Andrade and Pedro Cordeiro. This chapter analyzes identification issues of a behavioral New Keynesian model and estimates it using likelihood-based and limited-information methods with identification-robust confidence sets. The model presents some of the same difficulties that exist in simple benchmark DSGE models, but the analytical solution is able to indicate in what conditions the cognitive discounting parameter can be identified and the robust estimation methods confirm its importance for explaining the behavioral model. The third chapter is co-authored with Eustáquio Reis. We apply a spatial equilibrium approach to understanding Brazil’s initial heterogeneity of prices, working population, and income across municipalities in the late XIX century. Understanding the spatial equilibrium in the past is important to generate new insights on the development path taken subsequently into the XX century that would show a very unequal spatial development and a high degree of economic backwardness in an otherwise natural resource abundant country with a high land-labor ratio. Preliminary results show that the initial spatial equilibrium when shifted by exogenous geographic variables, such as terrain ruggedness, climate, and soil suitability for commodities and staple foods generate perverse results for productivity and welfare that sometimes gets amplified by the factor share of slavery in a municipality.
Unidade Acadêmica:	Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Gestão de Políticas Públicas (FACE) Departamento de Economia (FACE ECO)
Informações adicionais:	Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Administração, Contabilidade, Economia e Gestão de Políticas Públicas, Departamento de Economia, Brasília, 2019.
Programa de pós-graduação:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia
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