Neste trabalho o método de opções reais foi utilizado, em confronto com o do valor presente líquido, para avaliar se uma parte do Parque dos Manguezais, em Recife-PE, maior área de manguezal urbano do mundo, deve ou não ser utilizada para construção de uma rodovia, se sua totalidade deve...

This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...

The cease-and-desist commitment (CCP, a mechanism equivalent to a Consent Decree in the United States) is an agreement between the Administrative Counsel of Concurrence Defense (CADE) and an anticompetitive firm, aiming to cease the investigated practice in a certain period of time. During this...

In order to stimulate the quality of the service, ANEEL introduced penalties in the contracts with the concessionaires of public services of transmission of electric energy in the case which the transmission facilities are turned off, be for accident or for maintenance. In this sense, a variable...

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...

O CCP equivale a um acordo entre o CADE e a firma acusada de agir anticompetitivamente, com vistas a interromper a prática investigada dentro de um prazo estabelecido. Durante este compromisso, o processo fica suspenso e, após este período, se for concluído que a parte acusada se comportou...

We consider a leader and a subordinate he appoints who engage in team production. The public observes the organization’s performance, but is unable to determine the separate contributions of the leader and of the subordinate. The leader may therefore claim credit for the good work of his...