A key issue in the debate over gun control is how it will affectthe relative incentives of criminals and law-abiding citizens to acquireguns. We propose a simple model of interaction of criminals and law-abiding citizens as a contest where the parties arm themselves in orderto improve their...

This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...

This study presents the levels of Knowledge management maturity of 73 organizations, 66 of which are Brazilian public organizations from the federal government. Moreover, the paper highlights the main strong and weak points identified in those organizations for KM success and it points out...

Diese Studie analysiert und bewertet die Förderkulisse des Ernährungshandwerks im ländlichen Raum beispielhaft anhand der selbstschlachtenden Metzger. Dazu wurden leitfadengestützte Interviews mit Ministerien, Bewilligungsstellen, Handwerks- und Landwirtschaftskammern sowie Fleischerinnungen...

A Deliberative Public Administration is a political commitment to progressive and progressive transformation of public administration, especially in countries like Brazil, whose accumulated experiments of citizen participation has excelled around the world. Therefore, it is argued in favor of...

The long-term plan (LTP) is an important guiding instrument of development. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the PLP in Brazil to examine the capabilities, resources, the current institutional framework (Secretariat of Strategic Affairs from Presidency of the Republic of Brazil - SAE-PR)...