The aim of this paper is to analyze the impacts of the reduction of the Brazilian Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI) on the local sales of vehicles during the period between January and November of 2009. In order to evaluate these impacts, sales have been modeled as a function of price, income...

This thesis is dedicated to the study of inductive environmental tax norms, one of the instruments with increasing propagation used for nature preservation. These norms are defined in this work as any tax norm that within its environmental policy guidance is able to induce certain behaviour of...

Relationship between the land market, economic growth and land insecurity explained by an overlapping model. This paper analyzes the relationship between the land market failures and the economic growth in Brazil, starting from an overlapping model including two sectors: agricultural and...

The paper seeks to analyze the distribution of real estate assets among Brazilian families and IPTU-property tax-their main form of taxation. The text points out that real estate property usufruct is more concentrated than family income itself, despite the fact that IPTU boasts a dubious...