Browsing by Author "Azevedo, Paulo Furquim de"
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Além dos achismos e das evidências anedóticas: medindo a eficiência dos tribunais brasileiros
2012-12-01This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure efficiency in Brazilian State Courts. Results show that relative efficiency varies substantially across the states. There is a group of consistent top performers, ... -
Allocation of authority in franchise chains
2010-07-19This article investigates the level of delegation in franchise chains, distinguishing the two most relevant franchising models: Business Format Franchising and Learning Network Franchising. The two models basically differ ... -
Cartel deterrence and settlements: the Brazilian experience
2010-07-22Settlements are an important part of a program of cartel deterrence, particularly when the likelihood of conviction and the litigation costs are higher. This type of negotiated procedure to reach finality is in essence ... -
Comprometimento, características da cooperativa e desempenho financeiro: uma análise em painel com as cooperativas agrícolas paulistas
2013-06-01Many papers have discussed the importance of a higher degree of commitment between a cooperative and its members, prompting empirical studies on the subject. This paper joins this current by investigating what conditions ... -
Concorrência e estratégias de precificação no sistema agroindustrial do leite
2008-09-01This article aims to evaluate the degree of competition in the dairy industry, in the relevant markets of Ultra High Temperature (UHT) milk and pasteurized milk, by means of price transmission and marketing margin behavior. ... -
Cooperativas médicas: ilícito antitruste ou ganho de bem-estar?
2010-07-19Um fenômeno verificado no mercado de saúde é a coordenação de médicos em cooperativas médicas para fazer frente ao exercício de poder de compra por parte das operadoras de planos de saúde. Na linha dos argumentos de Galbraith ... -
Desafios da agroindústria canavieira no Brasil pós-desregulamentação: uma análise das capacidades tecnológicas
2011-09-01This paper aims to appraise the technological capabilities (LALL concept, 1992) of Brazilian sugarcane agroindustry for a sample of three leading production states: São Paulo, Paraná and Minas Gerais. A field research ... -
Determinantes da separação entre propriedade e gestão nas cooperativas agropecuárias brasileiras
2012-12-01Brazilian agricultural cooperatives are by and large characterized as complex organization with diffuse ownership. However, 48% of them do not segregate the owners from management, which goes against what is stated in the ... -
Formas plurais no franchising de alimentos: evidências de estudos de caso na França e no Brasil
2007Plural forms are an important subject in the franchising literature. The co-existence of franchised and company-owned outlets in the same chain is well-known fact, deserving the huge attention it received from researches. ... -
Interfirm arrangements in different institutional environments: Mcdonald’s france and brazil case study
2007This paper aims to investigate the effect of the institutional environment variables on the organizational choice by franchise chains that share a business format. Inasmuch as this type of franchising requires strict ... -
O Judiciário e o Estado regulador brasileiro
2016-12Este livro dialoga com a crescente produção acadêmica sobre a importância das interconexões institucionais para o desenvolvimento de um país. Considerando que a década de 1990 foi marcada, em quase todo o mundo, por um ... -
Measuring efficiency of Brazilian courts with data envelopment analysis (DEA)
2011-10In Brazilian law, there may be nothing as uncontroversial as the idea that courts are slow, inefficient and unable to attend to citizens' demand. Court inefficiency has been well acknowledged for many decades. Yet, the ... -
The modes of provision of prison services in a comparative perspective
2008-03-01This paper aims to compare the performance of two modes of provision of prison services: public, and with the participation of private companies. There are few empirical studies concerning the alternative modes of governance ... -
Poder compensatório: coordenação horizontal na defesa da concorrência
2009Agreements among competitors to negotiate prices are challenged by antitrust authorities as per se illegal. Implicitly competition policy assigns negligible probability to such arrangements to yield net social benefits. ... -
Preços administrados e discricionariedade do Executivo
2015Administered prices during the first term of President Dilma were used as an instrument to meet inflation target, so as to subordinate industrial policies to short run macroeconomic aims. This strategy was ineffective to ... -
Private entrepreneurs in public services: a longitudinal examination of outsourcing and statization of prisons
2013-03Some fear that the profit-maximizing orientation of private entrepreneurs conflicts with societal goals expected in the provision of complex public services. Received contractual theories advocate that private involvement ... -
Private operation with public supervision: evidence of hybrid modes of governance in prisons
2010-10Received theories suggest a possible cost-quality tradeoff when private outsourcing arrangements are used in public services. Using data from Brazilian prisons, our study provides evidence that contradicts this prediction: ... -
Redesigning the food chain: trade, investment and strategic alliances in the orange juice industry
2006Change in trade barriers and capital flow creates opportunities for redesigning the food chain. The orange juice chain in U.S. and Brazil provides an interesting illustration of how institutional harmonization, high import ...
