Portuguese Abstract: 1. Introdução. 2. Mercosul: antecedentes históricos e a falta de legitimidade democrática em relação às políticas adotadas pelos Estados. 3. Parlamento do Mercosul e o viés democrático da integração. 3.1. A experiência europeia. 3.2. Rumos e desafios do...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo tem por objetivo examinar o sistema das Opiniões Consultivas do MERCOSUL e a sua regulamentação pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, de forma a identificar a viabilidade da construção de um direito da integração no bloco, vez que uma das grandes...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo relata um caso de sucesso de empresarial no sector dos transportes na Colômbia. Comefeito, conta a história de Luis Gabriel Pinto, uma pessoa que toma a iniciativa de desenvolver o seu próprio projecto empresarial na prestação de serviços de logística para...

In this paper I analyze the interaction between firms’ earnings management behavior and conservatism. I predict that firms having conservatism-related bad news in the period have more pervasive earnings management than firms having good news. Departing from Burgstahler and Dichev (1997)...

This paper examines the importance of geographic distance for the occurrence of knowledge flows between countries and how this importance has been changing over time. The main channels for knowledge flows are presented and an econometric analysis conducted with a focus on knowledge flows...

The state capacity to formulate, supervise, and implement (and in some cases to evaluate) science, technology, and innovation policy is the subject of the present work. The goal is to compare state and policy capacity in Brazil, China, and Argentina to point out comparative institutional...

The analysis of the domestic content of exports has called the attention of a number of authors in the last years, with the growing importance of global value chains. As long as manufacturing production is increasingly fragmented between several countries and firms, the country responsible for...

The genetic engineering techniques are essential in modern agriculture and, at the same time, demand regulation on several levels. The diffusion of planting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has grown since 1996, notably in the United States, Argentina and Canada. In Brazil, the production...