Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies …

paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

per 100,000 population and with an increasing trend. Yet most evidence of crime concentration, geo-temporal patterns, and … event dependence comes from cities in high-income countries. Understanding crime patterns in the region and how they compare … to those in high-income countries is of first-order importance to formulate crime reduction policies. This paper is the …

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies …

exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide … the two typologies of actors. -- Foreign Direct Investments ; Environmental Negative Externalities ; Structural Changes …

We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other …

among the heaviest drinkers – the group who, at the margin, are likely to create the largest externalities from drinking … price floor outperforms an ethanol tax. However, more flexible tax systems can achieve similar reductions in externalities …