The informatics industry (ISIC 30 – office, accounting and computing machinery) is one of the fastest growing sectors in manufacturing in the World and in Brazil, and receives special tax breaks in Brazil (the so called “Informatics Law”). We investigate this sector after its...

This paper establishes a relationship between the observability of common shocks and optimal organizational design under a multiagent moral hazard environment. We show that, with sucient information about common shocks, a cooperative organization can be optimal even if outputs are highly...

This paper tries to measure the welfare gains from technological innovation, focusing on the most important technological breakthough of Brazilian auto industry during the last decade: the so-called \ ex-fuel" cars, able to operate using various fuel types. In order to do that, initially a...

O objetivo do artigo é o cálculo de parâmetros usualmente adotados na literatura sobre previdência social, como as taxas de reposição previdenciária, alíquotas de contribuição atuarialmente justa e valores presentes de contribuições e de benefícios, para o caso brasileiro. Os...

Brazil at the turn of the twentieth century offers an interesting puzzle. Among the large economies in the Americas it had the lowest level of literacy in 1890, but by 1940 the country had surpassed most of its peers in terms of literacy and had done a significant improvement of its education...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo estimar um modelo empírico para três tipos de crime no município de São Paulo: homicídios, roubos e furto de veículos. O trabalho usa como unidades geográficas as áreas de atuação dos distritos policiais e leva em conta possíveis efeitos espaciais entre...

In this paper we study the outcome of the six rst \existing energy" auctions in Brazil. Under the current regulatory regime, the bulk of the trade between existing generators and distribution companies is done through bilateral eight-year contracts, negotiated in auctions organized by the...

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o impacto da saúde sobre o desempenho escolar de alunos da quarta série do ensino fundamental em todo o Brasil no ano de 2005 e 2007. No Brasil, a carência de bases de dados contendo simultaneamente indicadores de saúde e de desempenho escolar dificulta as...

The main purpose of the paper is to provide a link between the location decision and the internal organization of vertically integrated firms. The results of the model show that the decisions about location and managerial (de)centralization are interdependent: For certain parameters, firms...

This paper aims to discuss the role of technological specialization in economic growth. Economic literature has stressed that there are theoretical reasons and empirical results to associate trade specialization in high-tech products with growth. There are also theoretical reasons to associate...