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...

The objective of this text is to rescue the perspective of social welfare macro sectorial analysis. The emergence of social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first, from a historical and conceptual perspective and...

The objective of this text is to rescue the perspective of social welfare macro sectorial analysis. The emergence of social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first, from a historical and conceptual perspective and...

This text aims to provide evidence regarding the adverse effects of anti-dumping measures on the competitive market strategies in different sectors of economic activity. To map firms' strategic behaviour, as well as the evolution of their market power, our empirical model consists of estimating...

This text aims to provide evidence regarding the adverse effects of anti-dumping measures on the competitive market strategies in different sectors of economic activity. To map firms’ strategic behaviour, as well as the evolution of their market power, our empirical model consists of...

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model used to quantify the impacts of trade policies on Brazil and its trade partners, under alternative assumptions of constante returns and perfect competition and economies of scale and imperfect competition. The results suggest that the...