Listagem por autor "Arvate, Paulo Roberto"
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Altruísmo e competição inter-geracional: o impacto do envelhecimento da população nos gastos em educação dos municípios brasileiros
2008In this work, we tried to test two hypotheses for the Brazilian municipalities on the relationship between the aging of the population an educational expenditures. The first is that the increase of the elderly share reduces ... -
Uma análise da eficiência nos gastos em educação fundamental para os municípios paulistas
2011The aim of this paper was to evaluate the relative efficiency of the counties with regard to spending on primary education in 2005. To this end, we used some indexes and indicators of results of an analysis of efficient ... -
Another argument against negotiated grants: how the bill for local corruption is distributed
2016The objective of this paper is to indicate another argument against negotiated grants (NGs): the possibility of local leaders seeking NGs in order to transfer the bill for local corruption to the whole country. Our argument ... -
Aprovação de empréstimos a governos subnacionais no Brasil: há espaço para comportamento político oportunista?
2008The aim of this study was to test whether political influence comes into play in the approval of loans to State governments by the Brazilian National Senate. Although all the requests for loans submitted to the Senate ... -
Campaign donation and government contracts in Brazilian states
2013-12-06A corporate firm may influence policies in its favor by transferring money to political candidates. However, empirical studies which document evidence about the return on campaign donations are rare (Großer, Reuben and ... -
Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investigation into voting behavior
2016This article reports results from an economic experiment that investigates to what extent voters punish corruption and waste in elections. While both are responsible for a loss of welfare for voters, they are not necessarily ... -
Corrupção e ineficiência
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Corruption and the size of government: causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries
2010The purpose of this article is to examine the causality between government size and corruption, and to verify if there is a different pattern of causality between developed Organization for Economic Co-operation and ... -
Diferentes padrões de políticas salariais nos estados brasileiros: uma análise a partir do diferencial de salários público-privado
2009-09-01Public servant wages represent a significant part of Brazilian state governments' current expenses. Based on the literature, this paper has tried to identify which states practice efficient, compensatory or appropriation ... -
Economias de escala na oferta de serviços públicos de saúde: um estudo para os municípios paulistas
2010-08-19Este artigo avalia os efeitos das variáveis de escala na oferta de serviços públicos de saúde dos municípios paulistas, com o objetivo de investigar os possíveis efeitos do processo de descentralização dos serviços de saúde ... -
Education production efficiency: evidence from Brazilian universities
2009This paper investigates how efficient are the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Brazil, and which institution – public or private – is more efficient in the production of knowledge. In addition, it was also verified ... -
Electoral competition and local government responsiveness in Brazil
2013-03The empirical literature on the effects of competition on the supply of public goods shows controversial results at the local level. The main objective of this paper is to investigate this relationship in a federalist ... -
Um estudo empírico sobre a influência ideológica na determinação dos gastos dos governos estaduais entre 1986 e 1998
2004The main idea of this working is to understand the ideological influence of both Executive (GOVI) and Legislative (LEGI) branches of government on the subnational government expenditures (states) in Brazil between 1987 and ... -
Existe um hedge para a moeda em ambientes de inflação: a evolução institucional da dívida pública no Brasil
2000-12-01O objetivo deste artigo é encontrar uma justificativa teórica para a alocação da dívida pública na riqueza financeira dos agentes em face aos sucessivos defaults impostos pelo setor público aos demandantes de dívida pública ... -
The fire-armed police effect: evidences from a quasi-natural experiment in Brazil
2016We estimate the impact of fire-armed police on violent crimes (homicides and acts of aggression) in a quasi-natural experiment in Brazil. In 2003, Brazilian legislators approved a law that regulates the use of firearms by ... -
Fiscal conservatism in a new democracy: 'sophisticated' versus 'naive' voters
2009-02We use data from gubernatorial elections in Brazil to test the electoral reactions of 'sophisticated' and ''naive' voters to fiscal surpluses. Our results complement Brender and Drazen [Brender, Adi, and Drazen, A., (2005b), ... -
Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor
2017We explore an electoral quasi-experiment where a woman nearly won or lost to a man in a mayoral election. Our data combines municipal Brazilian election results, which occur every four years, with municipal level votes for ... -
Gender stereotypes in politics: what changes when a woman becomes the local political leader?
2014-02-12This study documents how the presence of a woman in an executive political role affects the gender stereotype of women in politics. We use Brazilian electoral data and restrict our focus to close mayoral races (using an ... -
Generic-branded drug competition and the price for pharmaceuticals in procurement auctions
2013-12-05This paper studies the effects of generic drug’s entry on bidding behavior of drug suppliers in procurement auctions for pharmaceuticals, and the consequences on procurer’s price paid for drugs. Using an unique data set ...
