Performance Indicators (PI) has been frequently used as tools for hospitals performance evaluation in Brazil. The presente work evaluates four public and two private hospitals using that approach and a frontier methodology referred in the literature as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA was...

This study aims to evaluate policies that can potentially improve the economic vulnerability of a group of emerging market countries that comprises 23 countries in the period 1998-2007, coping up to 96% of the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global as of December 2007. Through a panel data...

This paper aims at assessing the effects of real exchange rate overvaluation over the export composition for developing countries in a time span of 1970-2004. For this intent, it is estimated an exchange rate overvaluation index by using panel cointegration techniques (Dynamic Ordinary Least...