This paper discusses the implications of assuming agents with bounded rationality over the design of public policies towards eradicating poverty, and uses the insights to study the case of the Brazilian program Bolsa Familia. The initial assumption is that the person receiving the benefits of...

Teve-se como objetivo neste artigo abordar elementos teóricos já estudados sobre o processo de decisão, bem como da Economia dos Custos de Transação e da Análise Sistêmica, de forma a propor uma estrutura analítica sistêmica, multinível e interdisciplinar, que possa ser usada para o...

This paper studies the applicability of time series models as a decision tool of buy and sell orders of live cattle futures contracts in the Brazilian Futures Market (BM&F), on dates close to expiration. The models considered are: ARIMA, Neural Networks and Dynamic Linear Models - DLM (this in...