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In this article, we analyze the efficiency of Brazilian local legislative branches using the nonparametric estimator FDH (Free Disposal Hull). At the regional level, the results show high concentration of local legislative branches in the south. In addition, among the inefficient local...
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This text evaluates the effect of the BNDES Finame credit program on the survival of Brazilian firms, separated according to their size, between 2002 and 2016. To this end, we employ the survival analysis method. In this work, we use the microdata bases of RAIS and BNDES financing operations....
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It is almost a consensus that the ongoing transformations in the Brazilian demographic structure press for urgent changes in the current social security rules as the objective of guaranteeing the actuarial balance of the national pension system. It is therefore important to predict the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146840
In this article, we analyze the efficiency of Brazilian local legislative branches using the nonparametric estimator FDH (Free Disposal Hull). At the regional level, the results show high concentration of local legislative branches in the south. In addition, among the inefficient local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965841
It is almost a consensus that the ongoing transformations in the Brazilian demographic structure press for urgent changes in the current social security rules as the objective of guaranteeing the actuarial balance of the national pension system. It is therefore important to predict the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111416
This text evaluates the effect of the BNDES Finame credit program on the survival of Brazilian firms, separated according to their size, between 2002 and 2016. To this end, we employ the survival analysis method. In this work, we use the microdata bases of RAIS and BNDES financing operations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156464
Diversos estudos têm mostrado os benefícios do comércio internacional para o Brasil de uma redução de tarifas. Com um modelo de equilíbrio geral computável (GTAP) são simuladas quatro alternativas: abertura ampla na OMC; negociação entre Mercosul e União Européia (Mercoeuro); ALCA; e a...
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Estimates based on household surveys often differ considerably from administrative records. In the PNADs, for instance, the estimated number of beneficiaries of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) and of the Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) are always lower than the official figures....
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The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according to IBGE (2000) database. Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities...
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The technological and institutional environment influences the way of doing research and the relationships between its participants. Intellectual property is a strategic issue to build the institutional framework of the new technological regime and therefore the dynamics of innovation in...
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