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Modelos Lineares e Não Lineares da Curva de Phillips para Previsão da Taxa de Inflação no Brasil. (2011). Ferreira, Roberto ; Castelar, Ivan ; Arruda, Elano Ferreira.
In: Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE.
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