The main purpose of this paper is to calculate the effective total factor productivity (ETFP) of the Brazilian agricultural and industrial sectors during 1990-2009. The results are the following: all sectors have reached high ETFPs, with a few exceptions; however, the ETFPs have not mobilized...

Spanish Abstract: La consolidación de mercados de tierra en economías en países en vías de desarrollo es una alternativa de crecimiento necesaria y viable que requiere, entre otros elementos, la comprensión de los mecanismos de generación de precios de la tierra rural. En la ciencia...

The main purpose of this paper is to calculate the effective total factor productivity (ETFP) of the Brazilian agricultural and industrial sectors during 1990-2009. The results are the following: all sectors have reached high ETFPs, with a few exceptions; however, the ETFPs have not mobilized...

This study investigates the determinants of the great difference between winning bids and reserve prices in the transmission electricity sector in Brazil between 1999- 2010, through an econometric approach based on Heckman (1979) that considers the heterogeneous among the winner's and loser's...

Raising the public administration's efficiency is, without any doubt, one of the greatest challenges nowadays in Brazil. The State's technical and allocative efficiency dimensions necessarily require efficiency of public agencies in the acquisition of inputs for their production and supply...

This paper aims to analyse the information asymmetry as a source of inefficiencies to the Brazilian Power Industry. This article focuses on the currently adopted prices formation model based on operation costs minimization without price bidding. We show that the use of adverse selection, by...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as recentes fusões e aquisições na siderurgia brasileira e mundial no sentido de verificar se a reestruturação observada resultou em elevação dos lucros do setor. Primeiramente, testamos um modelo teórico proposto por Inderst e Wey (2004) e encontramos...

The reform process that the Brazilian electric industry has been undergoing since the mid 90’s suffered a great inflection after the energy rationing of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2002 that followed it. The privatization programs initiated in the previous decade were suspended, which led...