This paper analyses the consumption patterns of tourists from different domestic origins and choosing different domestic destinations in Brazil in terms of their expenditure level and composition. The authors also look at the various alternatives for financing tourist expenditures and their implications for the net multipliers in an integrated framework. The paper uses survey data for domestic tourism in Brazil to consolidate an interregional matrix of expenditures by tourists and then employs an interregional input– output system for Brazil to compute the tourism multiplier effects based on alternative hypotheses for the sources of financing of tourist expenditures. The results are analysed and their implications for regional inequality in the country are discussed.

This study projects the economic impacts of COVID‐19 outbreak on the Brazilian economy using a dynamic interregional computable general equilibrium model. We considered two scenarios. The first scenario has two channels of transmission over the economic system: a negative shock of labor supply due to the rates of morbidity and mortality caused by the pandemic, and a temporary shutdown of nonessential economic activities. The second scenario adds to the first the effects of the government fiscal package adopted to counteract the effects of COVID‐19 on the economy. Furthermore, in both scenarios, a sensitive analysis related to the temporality of the shutdown is considered by assuming 3 and 6 months of shutdown. The results indicate a reduction of 3.78% in the national GDP growth rate in Scenario 1 and a reduction of 0.48% in Scenario 2, in 2020, with 3 months of shutdown. With 6 months, the reduction would be greater, 10.90% and 7.64% in Scenarios 1 and 2, respectively. Thus, the government fiscal stimulus considered in this study partially mitigates the reduction in GDP projected under the COVID‐19 outbreak. The study also presents sectoral projections at the national and state levels. The estimates indicate reductions in the GDP of most of Brazilian states in both scenarios.

Urban sprawl is a pattern of growth observed in some big and medium cities which could increase the cost of providing public services by municipalities and thus affect welfare and quality of life for urban residents. This paper analyses the effects of urban sprawl on the cost of providing public services for the medium‐density and high‐density Brazilian urban centers. We investigate the role of different measures of urban sprawl into equations of public good provision using spatial econometric techniques. Our empirical evidence shows that the main public services affected by urban sprawl are education, health, and social assistance, urban infrastructure and culture, and sports. Also, the results are sensitive to the urban sprawl measure used and the relation between urban sprawl and the cost of providing local public services has a threshold effect associated with the size of the urban center.

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a eficiência produtiva da agricultura em escala microrregional usando técnicas de estimação de fronteiras de produção estocásticas e análise exploratória de dados espaciais. As estimações foram feitas para as lavouras permanentes e temporárias separadamente com dados do Censo Agropecuário 2006. Os resultados da equação de produção mostram que os fatores produtivos área de terra e trabalho representam ganhos de produtividade para essas lavouras ligados aos retornos crescentes de escala e à intensidade tecnológica. Os resultados também indicam que a relação entre eficiência e especialização é positiva nas lavouras permanentes e negativa nas lavouras temporárias. Fatores geográficos relacionados com precipitações, temperatura e biomas se mostraram mais relevantes para explicar os diferenciais regionais de eficiência das lavouras temporárias. A análise espacial aplicada à lavoura permanente identificou clusters de alta eficiência nas regiões Nordeste e Sul e um núcleo de baixa eficiência na região Norte. Para as lavouras temporárias, destacam-se poucos clusters de alta eficiência situados nas regiões Nordeste e Sudeste e áreas extensas de baixa eficiência situadas predominantemente no Nordeste e Norte do Brasil.