The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of institutional supply arrangements to the world and sparked predatory competition among buyers. In this context, the rationalization of demand and use of medical inputs and the centralized management o these acquisitions are recommended strategies,...

This study conducts an evaluation of the tender for intercity passenger transport by bus in selected states of Brazil with the purpose of carrying out a preliminary diagnosis and pointing out alternatives in the light of good public transport management practices. For this, bidding processes in...

Portuguese Abstract: Cinco anos após a criação do Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão, este artigo fornece um quadro geral do que se pretendia que o Tribunal fosse e no que este se tornou, com o objetivo de fornecer uma base para o debate público sobre os potenciais...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar a "Metodologia para Determinação do Fator X" proposta pela ARSESP para a Revisão Tarifária do Setor de Distribuição de Gás Natural, no terceiro ciclo tarifário. A correta determinação do Fator X é de fundamental importância no...

This work is a compilation of studies produced at the Social Studies Department - Disoc/Ipea to support the elaboration of the document Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007. Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 and the role of the government in health care are...

This paper investigates the existence of adverse selection in the brazilian health plan market. By using recent developed methodology it was not possible to confirm the existence of the fenomenon in the before regulation period. These results present new challenges to the current regulation,...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of moral hazard in the Brazilian health system. The dataset used is the 1998 PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra Domiciliar), a Brazilian household sample survey. Brazilian health system is characterized as a mixed system: the public sector...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the spatial localization of health services supply at Brazilian north region. At Amazon region, where distances among localities are huge and the transport system has deficiencies, the supply of health infra-structure and human resources are crucial issues to...

This paper investigates the existence of adverse selection in the Brazilian health plan market. By using recent developed methodology it was not possible to confirm the existence of the fenomenon in the before regulation period. These results present new challenges to the current regulation,...