This paper exploits the diversity of panels at the court of appeals in the state of Sao Paulo to address the role of career backgrounds and ideology in shaping the response of judicial decisions to a major criminal reform, enacted under Law 12,403/2011, which tightens the requirements for...

Federal Statute nº 13.147, enacted by National Congress in July 13th, 2017, altered extensively the Brazilian Labour Code. Several of the alterations were justified under the need to solve legal certainty issues, that allegedly caused excessive labour litigation. In the same direction, changes...

The present work aims to analyze characteristics of home entries in criminal proceedings involving drug crimes, in order to determine whether home policing, within the context of drug policies, selectively or geographically segregates defendants who face the criminal justice system. Based on...

The 2015 Civil Code of Procedure (Law 13.105) entailed extensive changes in the system of civil appeals in Brazil but, after more than seven years of its enactment, there hasn't been any empirical assessment regarding the impacts of the procedural reform on the propensity to appeal in civil...

The rise of global value chains (GVC) across sectors raises new challenges to the analysis of countries' competitiveness and their industries. This paper analyzes how the leather-footwear complex is positioned in the global market after the reconfiguration of the international market occurred...

The paper analyzes the process of Brazilian deindustrialization from the perspective of the transformations occurred in the global economic system in the last three decades. Realizes the performance of the Brazilian industry in the international economy from the technological, productive,...

This paper tries to do an international and technological comparison of the Brazilian manufacturing in 2011. The main conclusion is the following: the Brazilian manufacturing has technological supply chains similar to the more developed countries, although it needs development in a few sectors.

Although there is agreement that the effect of broadband expansion on the economy, from an general overview, is positive; not an unanimous voice arguments that this impact be positive on all sectors. By applying a multivariate two way panel data model and estimated by bayesian methodology, this...

The last three decades have witnessed important changes in transportation, communication and data processing, with effects over productive processes, trade flows and the international movement of capital. From the viewpoint of developing economies this led to the recommendation of adhering to...

The Brazilian transport sector has difficulties to act systematically due to the absence of a flow and use of information and integration of databases and actors. This activities are usually performed by Monitoring and Evaluation Systems (MES). In Brazil, these activities are still incipient and...