Innovation and Productivity Lab - LAPI

Innovation and Productivity Lab based in the University Federal of Pernambuco (PIMES-UFPE), Brazil. It focuses on the analysis of firm dynamics in Brazil. LAPI (at Portuguese acronym) is committed to seeking and evaluating firm-level data on innovation and productivity. It also intends to provide support to non-academic entities in the improvement of the productivity of firms.

E-mail address (corresponding researcher): rafael.vasconcelos@ufpe.br

• Project of Digital transformation - Projeto de transformação digital do setor produtivo da Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI)

  • • Partners: ABDI, FIEPE, SENAI-PE, ADDIPER, FITEC

• Tecnical report - Productivity in the Brazilian firms

  • Report 2020

• Published papers

  • Misallocation in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2017 (Rafael Vasconcelos)

    • Midia: Valor economico, Valor economico, Nexo , Nexo

• Working papers and Working in progress

  • Competition, Productivity, and Resource misallocation in High-Friction Economies (Rafael Vasconcelos)

  • Patent Infringement and Technological Innovation: evidence from the Brazilian Pharmaceutical industry (Rafael Vasconcelos)

  • Life Cycle Dynamics of Firms and Resource Misallocation in Brazil (João Pedro Cavalcanti e Rafael Vasconcelos)

• Lectures (Graduate level, in Portuguese)

  • Firm dynamics

  • Economic growth

  • DSGE models

  • New Keynesian models

  • Labor search and Matching models

  • Search models of money

• Lectures (Undergraduate, in Portuguese)

  • Principles of Economics (Slides 1, Slides 2, Slides 3)

  • Principles of Finance (Slides 1, Slides 2, Slides 3)