The main objective of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of trust issues within organizations to expand and refine theoretical constructs. Trust is approached in the economic perspective as a social mechanism for management. We seek to understand the role of trust in the...

Este trabalho analisa o status nutricional das crianças brasileiras menores de cinco anos de idade. Primeiro, são construídos indicadores de pobreza antropométrica e testado se as mudanças ocorridas entre os anos de 1996 e 2006 foram estatisticamente significativas. Para o período em...

This study aims to identify the preferences of the monetary authority in the Peruvian regime of inflation targeting through the derivation of optimal monetary policy rules. To achieve that, we used a calibration strategy based on the choice of values of the parameters of preferences that...

The estimated interest rate rules are reduced form equations and for that reason they do not directly reveal anything about the structural parameters of monetary policy. In this paper, we seek to further elucidate the Brazilian monetary policy under the inflation targeting regime by calibrating...

Mudanças na legislação tributária promovem a realocação dos fatores de produção, alterando a produção de setores e regiões e, consequentemente, a receita arrecadada pelos governos. A Proposta de Emenda à Constituição (PEC) no 233/2008, buscando manter inalterada a carga tributária...