Apresentação 4: Uma Contribuição para a Estratégia de Desenvolvimento Nacional: Pesquisa Aplicada sobre Acumulação de Capacidades Tecnológicas e Inovação para o Fortalecimento da Competitividade Industrial no Brasil

Criado em Outubro de 1999, o Programa de Pesquisa tem como missão gerar uma contribuição fundamental ao fortalecimento da competitividade industrial no Brasil, por meio de pesquisa aplicada, de ponta, sobre acumulação de capacidades tecnológicas e inovação.

Apresentação 7: produção de pesquisa e impacto na sociedade

Comentarista: Renato Flores (Núcleo de Prospecção e Inteligência Internacional)

Exogenous shocks and misattribution of responsibility for economic performance: results from survey experiments

Recent models of economic voting assume that citizens can discount exogenous factors when assessing government's economic performance. Yet there is evidence that Latin American voters do not behave in such way, and attribute to presidents outcomes that are beyond their control. This paper presents three survey experiments designed to explore mechanisms that could potentially correct such misattribution, and therefore contribute to debiasing individual behavior towards government evaluation. Our results provide individual-level evidence of the misattribution found in aggregate studies of electorate behavior, and reinforce psychologist's skepticism towards prospects of mental decontamination, as we found very scant evidence that providing information, raising awareness, or increasing motivation to correct biases infuenced individual's evaluation of president's performance.

Cyclicality of SME Lending and Government Involvement in Banks

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan maturity, funding structure, liquidity, profitability, and credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks with high liquidity and stable deposit funding. Our findings have implications for the banking structure, financial stability and the finance-growth nexus in a local context.