The aim of this paper is to analyze the impacts of the reduction of the Brazilian Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI) on the local sales of vehicles during the period between January and November of 2009. In order to evaluate these impacts, sales have been modeled as a function of price, income...

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

The policy of restraining the opening hours of bars to prevent homicides, developed in south area of São Paulo, may be considered an innovating initiative giving the articulation of political actors and the alternatives used to overcome the local difficulties. This research has two general...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impacts of the reduction of the Brazilian Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI) on the local sales of vehicles during the period between January and November of 2009. In order to evaluate these impacts, sales have been modeled as a function of price, income...

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

The policy of restraining the opening hours of bars to prevent homicides, developed in south area of São Paulo, may be considered an innovating initiative giving the articulation of political actors and the alternatives used to overcome the local difficulties. This research has two general...

Portuguese Abstract: A lógica do pensamento keynesiano mostra como a incerteza envolvida na imobilização de capital restringe a dinâmica da economia e a necessidade de promoção de instituições que reduzam as condições de risco. A economia brasileira tem se defrontado, há décadas, com...

Na década de 90 muitas unidades da federação concederam isenções tributárias para atrair investimentos. No ambiente competitivo da economia brasileira após 1997, a pesquisa comparativa avalia o impacto da guerra fiscal nas receitas do ICMS, na geração de postos de trabalho na indústria...

This paper studies the impact of the preferential tax treatment of housing capital in a model economy that includes the main housing tax provisions currently in place in the U.S. and a minimum downpayment requirement upon purchasing non-divisible houses. Distortions arise because the tax code...

In this paper we investigate the real effects of fiscal policy in Brazil during the 1995-2008 period by estimating a VAR model that explicitly takes into consideration the role of public debt in the determination of fiscal variables, as recommended by Favero and Giavazzi (2007). According to our...