Este trabalho objetiva contribuir para a tomada de decisões de alocação de recursos públicos no âmbito do Poder Legislativo federal. O foco foi a construção de critérios que pudessem eleger, em cada microrregião, as câmaras municipais com maior poder de difusão e influência no...

This paper introduces a new location model, which the main difference from mostalready presented in the literature is the explicit modeling of the synergy amongactivities of an industrial cluster. This model is introduced to study a real problem ofcompany allocation in a region located between...

This paper presents optimal rules for monetary policy in Brazil derived from a backward looking expectation model consisting of a Keynesian IS function and an Augmented Phillips Curve (IS-AS). The IS function displays a high sensitivity of aggregate demand to the real interest rate and the...