In Latin America, the 1970s left very complicated memories for most people. All the countries from the south of the continent were ruled by violent dictatorships strongly based on ideology. In Buenos Aires, the last dictatorship was also a fertile period of musical creativity. Most of the bands...

Digital Technologies make it possible to decentrally settle institutional frameworks based on self-implementation of exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of IPRs and collective rules setting of this kind agents...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of inter-municipal cooperation on local taxation. Municipalities that join/create an inter-municipal jurisdiction choose between three tax regimes, which may induce both horizontal and vertical tax externalities. Using the differences in...

In a context of generalization of decentralization in the world going "hand in hand" with democratization and globalization, Brazil qualifies the universality of this process, at least in matter of fiscal federalism. In the paper, we firstly adopt a comparative perspective relative to an...

Le retour du Brésil à la démocratie s’est accompagné d’une ouverture aux échanges au niveau multilatéral (OMC) et régional(Mercosur). Simultanément, la constitution de 1988 affirmait une volonté forte de décentralisation fiscale. Vingt ans plus tard, le bilan de l’intégration...

In a context of generalization of decentralization in the world going "hand in hand" with democratization and globalization, Brazil qualifies the universality of this process, at least in matter of fiscal federalism. In the paper, we firstly adopt a comparative perspective relative to an...

Le retour du Brésil à la démocratie s’est accompagné d’une ouverture aux échanges au niveau multilatéral (OMC) et régional(Mercosur). Simultanément, la constitution de 1988 affirmait une volonté forte de décentralisation fiscale. Vingt ans plus tard, le bilan de l’intégration...

Voting records indicate that dissents in monetary policy committees are frequent and predictability regressions show that they help forecast future policy decisions. In order to study whether the latter relation is causal, we construct a model of committee decision making and dissent where...

This paper develops a model where the value of the monetary policy instrument is selected by a heterogenous committee engaged in a dynamic voting game. Committee members differ in their institutional power, and in certain states of nature, they also differ in their preferred instrument value....

We study a legislature where decisions are made by playing an agenda-setting game. Legislators are concerned about their electoral prospects but they are also genuinely concerned for the legislature to make the correct decision. We show that when ideological polarization is positive but not too...