Browsing by Advisor "Costa, Carlos Eugênio da"
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Is 'tagging' a rationale for affirmative action in education?
2014-05-26In this paper, we try to rationalize the existence of one of the most common affirmative action policies: educational quotas. We model a two period economy with asymmetric information and endogenous human capital formation. ... -
Leilões 3G europeus e brasileiros: uma sugestão a fertilização
2006A research was accomplished on the UMTS frequency spectrum licensing on Europe on the years 2000 and 2001. It was analyzed the bidders behaviors’, the auction rules’, the auction environment and each auction objective. ... -
The long-run properties of a dynamic Mirrlees' model with aggregate shocks
2013-07-19We assess the existence of a long run stationary distribution of expected util- ities in a dynamic Mirrlees’s (1971) incentive structure when the government has only imperfect record keeping and the economy is subject to ... -
Mercados internos de capital: uma questão de sobrevivência
2006We have presented in this paper the importance and effects of internal capital markets, and the consequences of its application. In order to do it, we applied a basic model of internal capital markets, a ssessing its ... -
Oferta de trabalho, comportamento criminal e redistribuição de renda
2007-07-11Este trabalho desenvolve e calibra um modelo de equilíbrio dinâmico de crime. O objetivo É estudar e quantificar os determinantes do comportamento criminal: aparato de polícia, condições do mercado de trabalho, perfil ... -
On insurance markets with endogenous information acquisition: A robust mechanism design approach
2010-08-18Neste trabalho propomos a aplicação das noções de equilíbrio da recente literatura de desenho de mecanismo robusto com aquisição de informação endógena a um problema de divisão de risco entre dois agentes. Através deste ... -
Optimal unemployment insurance for couples
2015-05-29This work analyzes the optimal design of an unemployment insurance program for couples, whose joint search problem in the labor market differ significantly from the problem faced by single agents. We use a version of the ... -
O Papel da elasticidade da renda tributável na avaliação do custo de eficiência da tributação
2011-08-29O trabalho utiliza conceitos da economia do bem estar e a elasticidade da renda tributável para analisar o custo social das reações comportamentais dos contribuintes do imposto de renda sobre as pessoas físicas no Brasil, ... -
Preços de commodities agrícolas e o comportamento de mercado invertido (backwardation): o caso da soja
2013-01-28The relationship between spot and future market and commodity price Backwardation have had an emphasis on the literature of economics and finance. The aim of this paper is to present the main causes responsible for the ... -
Preços de imóveis residenciais novos no Rio de Janeiro: estimação através da metodologia de preços hedônicos
2012-05-30The purpose of this work is to understand, in city of Rio de Janeiro, which characteristics are important in the market of new residential properties. The hedonic price model was used, as it analyses the good by a collection ... -
The private memory of aggregate shocks
2009-08-07In economies characterized by both aggregate and privately observed idiosyn- cratic risks we show that constrained e¢cient allocations may display non-trivial dependence on aggregate shocks. Using two period versions of ... -
Serviços de saúde, a assimetria da informação e a intervenção do governo: os exemplos americano e brasileiro
2014-05-27The current essay shows how health service market is afected by assimetric information, that results in government intervention. To understand that, an analisis of how this market works has been done, taking in account ... -
Stock lending market, short-selling restrictions, and the cross-section of returns
2017Essa tese é composta por três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo é dedicado a estudar o impacto causal de restrições de venda a descoberto sobre retorno de ações. A base de dados utilizada neste trabalho possui todas as ... -
Taxation of couples: a mirrleesian approach to collective households
2015-04-29This dissertation presents a alternative approach to deai with family taxation probiem. More specifically we modei lhe family decision as a Nash Bargaining where the pianner can choose optimally lhe disagreement utilities. ... -
Teoria de Leilões com Aplicação ao Mercado de Petróleo Brasileiro
2009-06-30The reform process that the petroleum industry have undergone from the 90 ́s, associated to the transference of public utility services to the private sector, brought important changes to the economy. In this context, the ... -
Three essays on the estimation of asset pricing models
2016-09-23The thesis consists in three articles about the estimation of asset pricing models. The first paper analyses small sample properties of Generalized Empirical Likelihood estimators for the risk aversion parameter in CRRA ... -
Two essays on education and governament policies
2005-06-01Whether human capital increases or decreases wage uncertainty is an open ques- tion from an empirical standpoint. Yet, most policy prescriptions regarding human capital formation are based on models that impose riskiness ... -
Visão econômica sobre o desmatamento na Amazônia: o papel da ilegalidade e os mecanismos públicos para a preservação da floresta
2008-11-18In this work, we study the role that the perception of law enforcement has in agents’ decisions to invade public areas and explore in a predatory way the forest within. We developed a microeconomic model of choice under ... -
Who should bear the risk of economic growth?
2020-03-20Como os choques agregados são otimamente compartilhados entre trabalhadores e aposentados? Em primeiro lugar, como os riscos são compartilhados entre dois grupos de agentes: um que deve ser incentivado a trabalhar e outros, ...
