Developing the solidarity in the path to transition: an essay on the socialism theory based on Marx - According to the main ideas that one may extract from Marx?s works on a transition theory, the socialism would be an intermediate stage for a superior system ? the communism ? made possible only...

According to the main ideas that one may extract from Marx's work on a transition theory, the socialism would be an intermediate stage for a superior system - the communism - made possible only after the complete development of the productive forces, capitalism's 'historical mission'....

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

The paper discusses the use of indicators, constructed with data from North American industrial sectors, and their application in the discussion of public policies, especially in competition policy, and to a lesser extent, in foreign trade policy. The premise is that the structure of domestic...

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

The paper discusses the use of indicators, constructed with data from North American industrial sectors, and their application in the discussion of public policies, especially in competition policy, and to a lesser extent, in foreign trade policy. The premise is that the structure of domestic...

Esse trabalho procura realizar uma análise integrada das hipóteses de auto-seleção e aprendizado para as exportações, oferecendo elementos para a discussão sobre a formulação recente da política de promoção de exportações. São utilizadas informações de firmas industriais...

In developing economies the purchase of a new machine by the firm can be a way of introducing a new product or processes. Under such considerations, this paper searches to measure the assumption of innovation via machine embodied technology, by verifying its impacts over the firm's productivity....

This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the productive efficiency of state courts of first degree in Brazil, based on the stochastic frontier approach [Aigner D.J. (1977), Meeusen W (1977) and Battese and Corra (1977)]. This study exploits the novel database by the Conselho Nacional de...

This study aims to analyze the technological differences in agricultural production between the municipalities in the semiarid and non-semiarid regions of Brazil's Northeast. It uses the technological meta-frontier model proposed by Battese, Rao e O'Donnell (2004), and O'Donnell, Rao e Battese...