The objective of this study is to estimate the socioeconomic impact of the deployment of last-mile digital infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. To measure the impact of the economic and social aspects of this type of infrastructure, the analysis differentiates according to the...

This paper aims to investigate, using data on both the placing of automobile dealers and automobile demand and supply variables, the effects of new automobile dealers' entry in previously monopoly markets. First, we identify relevant variables which influence the existence and the number of...

Portuguese Abstract: O Brasil tem assistido a intensos debates acerca da definição das exceções à regra geral de neutralidade de redes prevista no Marco Civil da Internet. Nessas discussões, a literatura estrangeira tem se revelado a principal fonte de orientação no enfrentamento de...

The objective of this study is to estimate the socioeconomic impact of the deployment of last-mile digital infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. To measure the impact of the economic and social aspects of this type of infrastructure, the analysis differentiates according to the...

This working paper is an initial effort to analyze theoretical contributions from New Institutional Economics (NEI), specially the Transaction Costs framework, for understanding financial mechanisms to innovation. Transaction Costs economy is one hand from firm’s contractual theories that...

Portuguese Abstract: O consenso da literatura é o de que o baixo nível de enforcement dos contratos e garantias seja uma causa importante do alto spread bancário no Brasil. No entanto, por conta de uma dinâmica de causalidade reversa, pode haver uma endogeneidade na estimação deste efeito...

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...

The economic literature has spent decades of analytical effort in order to provide theoretical and empirical evidence on behavior differences between firms managed by capital (conventional capitalist firms) and firms managed by labor (including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly...

The antitrust policy is built through antitrust agency's decisions that are, in Brazil, pronounced by CADE. To appraise CADE's decisions, thus, is to appraise the antitrust policy in Brazil. This implies that is necessary to know if such decisions are consistent with the antitrust theory. The...

Portuguese Abstract: "O contexto e a construção do private enforcement do direito da concorrência tem crescido com a transposição da directiva sobre danos (2014/104/UE de 26 de novembro de 2014). Porém, tal evolução será inútil se não for seguida por formas processuais capazes de pôr...