The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...

The paper econometricaly estimates demand systems for the beer sector in Brazil. The own and cross elasticities of demand display, as a rule, the behavior predicted in theory. One can define upon a conjectural variations model developed for oligopoly, a measure of welfare loss as proportion of...