We rank the participant nations in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games according to their technical efficiency. Usually they are ranked in accordance with the number of medals they have won and no resources available are considered. In order to evaluate the relative performance of the countries, we...

This work follows the series of studies conducted in Ipea, in order to compare the efficiency of the Brazilian health system to health systems of other countries. We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life expectancy; infant...

We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life expectancy; infant survival rate; years of life recovered from diseases; population; area) from the health system of Brazilian and OECD countries with an expenditure measure (health...

We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life expectancy; infant survival rate; years of life recovered from diseases; population; area) from the health system of Brazilian, Latina America and Caribbean Countries with an expenditure...

This paper calculates the optimal monetary policy rule for Brazilian economy, assuming that monetary authority adopts a flexible inflation targeting regime in which, besides the inflation target, there is also a target for public debt/GDP ratio. According to the open economy proposed model, risk...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a validade no uso de políticas fiscais anticíclicas, na tentativa de identificar a propensão à estabilidade num modelo macrodinâmico incorporando um regime de metas inflacionárias como arcabouço operacional para o controle da inflação numa economia...

O presente artigo apresenta um modelo dinâmico não linear que gera um ciclo-limite a partir de duas equações diferenciais, onde uma dessas equações representa a dinâmica do ajustamento de preços e a outra o ajustamento das quantidades, em um contexto em que prevalecem preços e salários...

After the publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (hereafter, GT), an intense debate about its main preposition – that the long-run equilibrium of the economy is a position of involuntary unemployment – was established. The consensus view that emerged from it,...

This paper introduces an Integrated Economic-Hydrologic water modeling at the basin scale that can provide essential information for policymakers in resource allocation decisions. The model is applied to the Pirapama river basin, in Pernambuco state, Northeast of Brazil. Includes essential...

This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the financial sustainability of the Brazilian electricity distributors taking into account financial statements, regulatory and quality information in the period between 2011 and 2014. It also analyzes characteristics of the companies...