The present paper analyses the influence of the judiciary and bankruptcy law in the credit market and in the economic growth in differents regions of the world. This paper also criticizes the current "Law and Finance" theory, mainly the papers of La Porta et al (1997,1998) and Levine et al...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar se o Projeto de Lei Complementar 488/2017 do Senado (PLS 488/2017) pode aumentar a permeabilidade dos criadores de políticas públicas ao uso de evidências, sobretudo comportamentais. A hipótese é a de que a regulação proposta pode...

We estimate DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) technical efficiency scores for 1170 Brazilian hospitals included in the SUS (Central Health System) using a recently proposed method that combines bootstrap and jackknife resampling to eliminate the influence of outliers and possible measurement and...