We study experimentally a standard four-player Hotelling game, with a uniform density of consumers and inelastic demand. The pure strategy Nash equilibrium configuration consists of two firms located at one quarter of the ``linear city'', and the other two at three quarters. We do not observe...

Portuguese Abstract: O consenso da literatura é o de que o baixo nível de enforcement dos contratos e garantias seja uma causa importante do alto spread bancário no Brasil. No entanto, por conta de uma dinâmica de causalidade reversa, pode haver uma endogeneidade na estimação deste efeito...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar a "Metodologia para Determinação do Fator X" proposta pela ARSESP para a Revisão Tarifária do Setor de Distribuição de Gás Natural, no terceiro ciclo tarifário. A correta determinação do Fator X é de fundamental importância no...

This working paper is an initial effort to analyze theoretical contributions from New Institutional Economics (NEI), specially the Transaction Costs framework, for understanding financial mechanisms to innovation. Transaction Costs economy is one hand from firm’s contractual theories that...

This paper aims to contribute to a theoretic and analytical basis to analyze Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a particular institutional arrangement from the point of view of its transaction costs, an approach that still has been neglected. That negligence has frequently jeopardized the...

The purpose of this work is the exploration of statistical methods and evaluation criteria of relational technology diversification of technical-scientific services provided by the infrastructure of Brazilian scientific and technological research. The technical and scientific services of a...

This article evaluates the trajectory of foster family care services in Brazil, since its entry into the federal government's select public policy agenda, from the elaboration of the National Plan for Living in Family and Community (2006) which brought, among its objectives, the promotion and...