In the rise of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), governments worldwide as well companies go through a transition, trying to adapt themselves to the Knowledge Society demands. Such innovative ...

This article proposes a comparative analysis among Brazilian municipalities in order to identify the determinants of the potential and of the ability to collect urban property tax (IPTU) in Brazil. The analysis applied the ...

The aim of the paper is to assess the informational content of a survey-based measure of the Brazilian manufacturing capacity utilization rate produced by the Brazilian Institute of Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation. ...

Monetary and fiscal institutions have played a decisive role in the stabilisation of the Brazilian economy since the mid-1990s. In Brazil institutional reforms were predominantly made in response to a succession of internal ...

This article analyze the necessary conditions for Brazilian income per capita to duplicate in a time span of fifteen years, as it happened in the 1970s. Growth accounting is used to identify the sources of growth of Asian ...

Despite of international evidence of asymmetric price adjustments in many markets, particularly in gasoline markets, the literature on this issue with Brazilian data is very scarce. Thus, the aim of this paper is to fill ...

Using the model proposed by Cagan (1956), the money demand and prices are investigated in Brazilian high-inflation period between 1970 and 1994. Once the relevant series potentially have structural breaks, cointegration ...

This paper establishes some stylized facts about the public educational system of two Brazilian states: Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and São Paulo (SP). First, this paper shows that teachers' wages are not related with their ...

This paper reviews the economic fundamentals for regulation in the oil industry, with a focus on the current regulatory proposal for the Brazilian oil industry. The observed exploration and production (E&P) contracts foresee ...