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)...

Since the last decade, there has been much debate on the central government's activism in the implementation of development policies that resemble those from Brazil's authoritarian past. However, only rarely, scholars and practitioners have discussed the state capacities that are necessary to...

The auto industry, since the 1960s, showed substantial growth in South Korea causing the country at the end of the 1980s was among the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. In the early 1990s, associated with the opening up of the economy held by the Korean government, the auto industry...

The article examines governmental policies for the revitalization of the shipbuilding industry in Brazil since the mid-2000s. It analyzes such policies from the perspective of their political-institutional arrangements. In order to evaluate both the political capacities and...

This paper analyzes the effect that shortcomings in the processes of "development, evaluation and selection of project" investments in infrastructure produce on the deployment and operation of these projects. The methodology adopted was to identify best practices in project development,...

This article presents a simulation of Public-Private Partnership for the maintenance and operation of all paved federal highways. To do so, we evaluate the distribution of benefits and costs between taxpayers, government and road users as a way to set toll values bankable by users, easing the...

The paper discusses the main challenges and opportunities for attracting both private domestic and foreign capital to foster the growth of concessions projects in the infrastructure sector, and proposes solutions from the Brazilian recent experience and other emerging economies. Given the...