Os criterios de avaliacao sao declaradamente importantes para o desempenho escolar dos alunos. Apesar da diversidade dos criterios de avaliacao pelos quais os alunos, habitualmente, passam ao longo da sua formacao escolar, nao sao, geralmente, analisadas as diferencas nos resultados escolares...

This study aims to verify the effect of the download data transmission rate on the degree of satisfaction of consumers of fixed broadband internet access, evaluating whether this relationship is adequately explained by the three characteristics which, according to prospect theory (Kahneman e...

This study aims to verify the effect of the download data transmission rate on the degree of satisfaction of consumers of fixed broadband internet access, evaluating whether this relationship is adequately explained by the three characteristics which, according to prospect theory (Kahneman e...

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...

A vegetação de caatinga, usada para produção de lenha e carvão, resulta em renda para as famílias rurais da região Nordeste. O Ibama cogitou o cancelamento da isenção de taxa de vistoria aos produtores de carvão com plano de manejo florestal. O modelo principal-agente desenvolvido...

This work has as objective to analyze the supposed existing positive relation between financial development and economic growth. The financial system influences the economic growth due to the functions that it plays, such as: ) the mobilization of resources; b) allocation of the resources in the...

In this paper we compare the costs of two regulatory policies about the entry of new firms. We consider an incumbent firm that has more information about the market demand than the regulator. Then, the incumbent firm can use this advantage to persuade the regulator to make entry more difficult....

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...

A partir da concepção mais ampla de moeda discutida por Stiglitz e Weiss (1981) e de Meza (1987), desenvolvendo os aspectos microeconômicos do problema de racionamento de crédito e levando em consideração as reformas estruturais no Sistema de Pagamentos Brasileiro (SPB), bem como formas de...