In this paper we compare the costs of two regulatory policies about the entry of new firms. We consider an incumbent firm that has more information about the market demand than the regulator. Then, the incumbent firm can use this advantage to persuade the regulator to make entry more difficult....

We consider a leader and a subordinate he appoints who engage in team production. The public observes the organization’s performance, but is unable to determine the separate contributions of the leader and of the subordinate. The leader may therefore claim credit for the good work of his...

Since the beginning of the 90's the New Economic Geography (NEG) has been a theoretical reference for several researches on regional and urban economics. The main task of this paper is to present a critical assessment of the NEG approach, which has in the book The Spatial Economy, by M.Fujita,...

Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the biggest Brazilian cities did not show a trend of reduction, differently from the whole country. Also, the inequality in those cities is substantially higher than the Brazilian. We...

The objective of this article is to investigate whether, despite of the goal of utility maximization defended by the neo-classic economic theory, the altruism can prevail inside organizations. Initially, one brief discussion of the altruism will be presented, analyzing this concept from some...

A teacher needs, as an economic analyst, to use indicators that give her accurate information about the classes. This work aims at testing the hypothesis: “The perceptions of the students about the subjects and about the teacher vary according to the specificity of each class”. For this...

This work intends to demonstrate the relevance and range of the contributions of Herbert A. Simon, as the pace of its ideas were useful as fundament to the development of many theoretical currents out of the mainstream. In this picture it will be highlighted, very briefly, examples in the...

The objective of this paper is to study the implementation of an integrated system of information, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies, on the fossil fuels market that can bring economic benefits to the consumers, create conditions for a more effective interview of the...

This work has as objective to analyze the supposed existing positive relation between financial development and economic growth. The financial system influences the economic growth due to the functions that it plays, such as: ) the mobilization of resources; b) allocation of the resources in the...

A vegetação de caatinga, usada para produção de lenha e carvão, resulta em renda para as famílias rurais da região Nordeste. O Ibama cogitou o cancelamento da isenção de taxa de vistoria aos produtores de carvão com plano de manejo florestal. O modelo principal-agente desenvolvido...