Lourenço Paz

Lourenço Paz
Ph.D. in Economics student at the University of Maryland

Contact Information

   University of Maryland
    Department of Economics
3105 Tydings Hall
    College Park, MD 20742

paz "at" econ "dot" umd "dot" edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Last Update: 05-22-08

Research

Teaching

Former Professors

Friends on the Web

Economics Links

Research Interests: Applied Economics, International Trade, Labor Economics, Brazilian Economy

Refereed Publications

"Apontamentos sobre plano diretor de reforma do Estado, organizações sociais e contratos de gestão", Revista de Administração da USP- RAUSP 36(3), 2001. (in Portuguese; "Notes about State Reform, Social Organizations and Incentive Contracts").
"Especificações para a Função Consumo: Testes para Países da América do Sul", com (with) Fábio Gomes, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econonômico 34(1), 2004. (in Portuguese; "Consumption Function specifications: Tests for South American Countries").
"Can Real Exchange Rate Devaluation Improve the Trade Balance? The 1990-1998 Brazilian Case", with Fábio Gomes, Applied Economics Letters, (12) number 9 - July 2005, pp. 525-528. (leading letter)
“Consumption in Brazil: myopia or liquidity constraints? A simple test using quarterly data”, Applied Economics Letters, (13) issue 15 – December 2006, pp. 961-964. (leading letter).
"Corporate foreign currency debt in Brazil: Will dollar indebted firms invest more after real exchange rate depreciations?", Applied Economics Letter, 2007, forthcoming.

Other Publications

"Os desafios do Capitalismo Global", com (with) Ernesto Lozardo, Jornal do Economista do CORECON - SP, março de 2000. (in Portuguese; "Challenges of the Global Capitalism").

Papers and Work in Progress

"The determinants of criminal victimization in São Paulo state", with Fábio Gomes, Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 32th Brazilian Economics Meeting], ANPEC - Associação Nacional do Centros de Pos-graduação em Economia.
"Are Brazilian firms' savings sensitive to cash windfalls?", with Cristiano Costa, Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 32th Brazilian Economics Meeting], ANPEC - Associação Nacional do Centros de Pos-graduação em Economia.
"Brazilian border and Mercosul integration effects: an exploratory assessment using the gravity model", with Afonso A. Franco Neto,
Anais do XXXI Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 31th Brazilian Economics Meeting], ANPEC - Associação Nacional do Centros de Pos-graduação em Economia.

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Former Professors

At EAESP/FGV, São Paulo, Brazil

Ernesto Lozardo

At EPGE/FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Afonso Arinos de Mello Franco Neto	Bernardo Blum
Heitor Almeida	João Victor Issler
Luis H. B. Braido	Octávio Amorim Neto
Paulo Klinger Monteiro	Renato G. Flores Jr.

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Friends on the Web

Ignez Tristão

EPGE ALUMNI

Fábio Gomes	Fabio Araujo
Antonio Galvao Jr.	Heleno Pioner
Guilherme Rocha	Cristiano Costa

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Economics

Spatial Econometrics

Researchers	Institutions and Research Centers
Ingmar Prucha @ UMD	Maryland Population Research Center @ UMD
Harry Kelejian @ UMD	Spatial Analysis Laboratory @ UIUC
Luc Anselin @ UIUC	LaSage Matlab ML routine
	Journal of Econometrics Software
	spatial-econometrics.com

General

       Central Banks Around the World: link
       U.S. Census Bureau: link
       BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis: link
       NBER - The National Bureau of Economic Research: link
       ECRI - Economic Cycle Research Institute: link
       IPEA - Brazilian Research Institute: link
       Federal Reserve System: link
       Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: link
       IDEA - Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: link

Cepe - Centro de Pesquisa em Economia Internacional: link

Sociedade Brasileira de Finanças: link

       AEA -American Economic Association: link
       Econometric Society: link
       Royal Economic Society: link
       LACEA - Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association: link
       ANPEC (Brazilian): link
     NBER: link
       SSRN: link
       RePEc: link

IPUMS: link

Maryland Population research Center (MPRC): link

The Center for International Data at UC Davis: link

European Central bank: link

World Trade Organization: link

      WoPEc: link
     S-WoPEc: link
     BibEC: link
       EconPapers: link
       EconWPA: link
       OECD: link Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: link1, link2
       Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: link
       Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: link
       IFS: link
       Cowles Foundation: link
       CEMMAP: link
       IMF: link
       World Bank: link
       Institute for International Economics: link
       University of Maryland: link
       Inomics - EconSearch: link
       CatchWord: link

PSID on-line: link

Stata tutorial: link

David Card: link

David Hummels: link

Jon Haveman's data: link

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"Apontamentos sobre plano diretor de reforma do Estado, organizações sociais e contratos de gestão", Revista de Administração da USP- RAUSP 36(3), 2001. (in Portuguese; "Notes about State Reform, Social Organizations and Incentive Contracts").

"Especificações para a Função Consumo: Testes para Países da América do Sul", com (with) Fábio Gomes, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econonômico 34(1), 2004. (in Portuguese; "Consumption Function specifications: Tests for South American Countries").

"Can Real Exchange Rate Devaluation Improve the Trade Balance? The 1990-1998 Brazilian Case", with Fábio Gomes, Applied Economics Letters, (12) number 9 - July 2005, pp. 525-528. (leading letter)

"Os desafios do Capitalismo Global", com (with) Ernesto Lozardo, Jornal do Economista do CORECON - SP, março de 2000. (in Portuguese; "Challenges of the Global Capitalism").