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This study has as its main objective to analyze the best bankruptcy procedure considering the conflict of interests between managers, secured creditors and trade creditors. Such trade-off is strictly connected with industry and countries characteristics, which is also relevant to the design of...
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As previsões de custos operacionais são utilizadas nos estudos de viabilidade econômica de projetos e nos orçamentos das empresas. Pesquisas realizadas identificaram falhas em orçamentos, sugerindo que 80% das empresas não estão satisfeitas com o processo orçamentário e que mais de 50%...
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We ask whether barriers to entry are a quantitatively important reason for the income gap between developing countries and the U.S. We develop a tractable general equilibrium model that captures the effects of barriers to entry and the other main classes of distortion typically considered in the...
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A energia elétrica é um bem de consumo essencial tanto para as camadas mais abastadas da população, quanto para os pobres. Num contexto de pressões por elevação de tarifas e por aumento de consumo, o consumidor pobre depara-se com uma situação em que pagar a conta de energia elétrica...
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The aim of this work is to analyze the business cycles of the Mercosur?s member countries in order to investigate their degree of synchronization. The econometric model uses the Beveridge-Nelson-Stock-Watson multivariate trend-cycle decomposition, taking into account the presence of common...
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An important aspect of empirical research based on the vector autoregressive (VAR) model is the choice of the lag order, since all inferences in this model depend on the correct model speci.cation. There have been many studies of how to select the lag order of a nonstationary VAR model subject...
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The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have sufficient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms)...
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Este artigo investiga como as variáveis econômicas (renda, desemprego e desigualdade) afetam seis tipos de crimes no Rio Grande do Sul (2000-2011). Os modelos incluem características demográficas e de políticas públicas, além de permitir a existência de inércia nas taxas de...
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In the beginning of the eighties the Brazilian growth rate of per capita GDP fell abruptly. In this paper we ask if this fall can be ex-plained by the behavior of technological progress (measured by Total Factor Productivity or TFP). Our main conclusion is that the behavior of TFP can fairly...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo de compreender o processo de articulação das práticas exercidas pelos sujeitos organizacionais das administrações públicas em suas formas de fazer estratégia. Para alcançar este objetivo foi utilizada como referência a abordagem da estratégia como prática...
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