Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo busca trazer a debate a questão das assimetrias tarifárias no âmbito da energia elétrica no Brasil, que dizem respeito à existência de tarifas mais caras nas regiões menos desenvolvidas do país. Para investigação desse tema, o presente trabalho...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente estudo busca dar um dos primeiros passos necessários para se discutir a regulação da economia compartilhada no Brasil, oferecendo um panorama da regulação incidente sobre ela, sem se restringir a um setor ou uma plataforma em específico, e demonstrando quais...

The article presents an analysis of the relations between national state and human rights in Brazil between the years of 1968 and 1996. The purpose is to reconstruct the historical process of the incorporation of this theme as a state policy and to put into evidence the conditionings of the...

This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the productive efficiency of state courts of first degree in Brazil, based on the stochastic frontier approach [Aigner D.J. (1977), Meeusen W (1977) and Battese and Corra (1977)]. This study exploits the novel database by the Conselho Nacional de...

This text presents a set of empirical evidence to "test" some hypotheses about the impacts of Labor Justice on labor productivity. Hypotheses that this justice would encourage opportunistic and immediatist behaviors of employers and workers. And these behaviors would result in noncompliance with...

Since the 1930s, Labour Justice has played very important roles in resolving labour disputes in Brazil. Nonetheless, the question that arises today is whether that justice can (or even should) continue with those roles - or whether it is possible to conceive some alternatives, which involve...