A avaliação de técnicas de combinação de previsões para previsão de valores esperados de uma série é um tópico bastante difundido, com a recomendação do uso de tais técnicas para previsão. Por outro lado, não há estudos comparativos do desempenho de combinação de previsões...

The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...

In this paper we discuss the actual and civilizational role of the state and its management. The MBO and the same OECD accounts-financial models are not recommended.With an comparative analysis we conclude for the necessity of a more organics and strategic models of governance and not...

Developments in spatial methodsconcerned with location, spatial interaction, spatial structure and spatial processesare creating new possibilities for studies of the properties of socioeconomic systems. In this paper, we use spatial statistical techniques with a geographic information system...

This paper discusses the spatial distribution of social structures in the Metropolitan Area of Porto Alegre in 1991 and 2000 (census years), using spatial statistical techniques with a geographic information system (GIS). These structures represent a social hierarchy of the metropolitan space...

In this article, we analyze the efficiency of Brazilian local legislative branches using the nonparametric estimator FDH (Free Disposal Hull). At the regional level, the results show high concentration of local legislative branches in the south. In addition, among the inefficient local...

It is almost a consensus that the ongoing transformations in the Brazilian demographic structure press for urgent changes in the current social security rules as the objective of guaranteeing the actuarial balance of the national pension system. It is therefore important to predict the impact of...

This text evaluates the effect of the BNDES Finame credit program on the survival of Brazilian firms, separated according to their size, between 2002 and 2016. To this end, we employ the survival analysis method. In this work, we use the microdata bases of RAIS and BNDES financing operations....

Diversos estudos têm mostrado os benefícios do comércio internacional para o Brasil de uma redução de tarifas. Com um modelo de equilíbrio geral computável (GTAP) são simuladas quatro alternativas: abertura ampla na OMC; negociação entre Mercosul e União Européia (Mercoeuro); ALCA; e a...

In this article, we analyze the efficiency of Brazilian local legislative branches using the nonparametric estimator FDH (Free Disposal Hull). At the regional level, the results show high concentration of local legislative branches in the south. In addition, among the inefficient local...