The COVID-19 pandemic caused an interruption in Brazilian soccer in 2020. Since early July, the presence of fans at stadiums was strictly forbidden by law. The literature states that crowds' pressure could result in a referee's bias against the away team and increase the home team's pressure to...

How successful did the Brazilian Hereditary Captaincies done at the 16th century? Until recently, no data-oriented study has explored this question. In this article I use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to address this question, estimating several production possibility frontiers. The main...

Does the ranking of Covid-19 cases by municipality follow Zipf’s law (i.e. an estimated Pareto exponent of one)? This note tries to answer this question using daily data from Brazil for the Mar 30, 2020 -Oct 22, 2021 period. We used a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator and the...

The end of the nineteenth century is a remarkable period in Brazilian economic history. In 1889, Brazil had just turned from Empire to a Republic when a monetary and financial crisis known as Encilhamento took place. The infant Brazilian republic had neither experience nor adequate institutions...

One of the remarkable developments in New Institutional Economics is the study on how institutions transition. This paper analyzes the role of Duarte Coelho, the first donatary and administrator of the captaincy of Pernambuco in the early colonial Brazil. His historical role and strong...