Browsing by Author "Arvate, Paulo Roberto"
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Ideological changes and tax structure: Latin American countries during the nineties
2007-12-05Sabatini (2002) and Roberts and Wibbles (1999) Pointed Out That Voters in Latin American Countries are no Longer Choosing According to Their Ideological Preferences. Ashworth and Heyndels (2002) Showed That the Tax Choice ... -
Institutional quality and capital taxation
2016-02We describe the preferred taxation regime in a small economy with uncertain institutional quality. We obtain that a preferential taxation regime in which taxes can be matched to the mobility of the tax base may be worse ... -
Intergovernmental transfers and public spending in Brazilian municipalities
2015-03-02We estimate the effects of unconditional (full fiscal decentralization) versus conditional (partial fiscal decentralization) block grants on local public spending in Brazilian municipalities. Our results suggest that the ... -
Lighting and homicides: evaluating the effect of an electrification policy in rural Brazil on violent crime reduction
2017Introduction: This study estimates the effects of lighting on homicides in rural areas of developing countries. Methods: We use an IV strategy by exploring the LUZ PARA TODOS or Light for All (LPT) program that was adopted ... -
Lighting and violent crimes: evaluating the effect of an electrification policy in rural Brazil on violent crime reduction
2016-01-19This paper estimates the effect of lighting on violent crime reduction. We explore an electrification program (LUZ PARA TODOS or Light for All - LPT) adopted by the federal government to expand electrification to rural ... -
A maturidade das instituições e a tributação do capital
2012Pesquisa em foco: Institutional quality and capital taxation in developing economies - 2011. Pesquisadores: Luis Araujo e Prof. Paulo Arvate -
Mensurando o desempenho e a eficiência dos gastos estaduais em educação fundamental e média
2009The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative performance and efficiency of Brazilian states in the provision of basic and secondary education. In order to do so performance indicators are initially built using ... -
A mudança de comportamento do setor público após o choque mundial de 1975 como resultado de conflitos sociais
2005-11-24The aim of this article is double: to verify if the changing of public sector behavior was affected by the adjustment process that the world economy passed after the 1975´s shock and to see if the same was explained by the ... -
Mudanças institucionais, receitas cumulativas do governo federal e exportações no Brasil entre 1982 e 2001
2004Since the beginning of the 80s, the Brazilian Federal Government has been substituting its income raised by traditional taxation for income from social contributions (cumulative) in the make-up of its total revenue (change ... -
Municipalities secession and uncertainty on public goods provision
2010-07-01This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. The theoretical model proposes that the median voter is not fully informed about the efficiency effect of secession on public good provision and ... -
Uma nova versão para a política monetária do Plano de Ação Econômica do Governo (Paeg)
2002-09-01There is divergence between Lara Resende (1982) and Cysne (1993) about what was determine to not to obey of monetary target that serve how an instruments of inflation combat on PAEG´s. To understand what happened, we rebuild ... -
Participação relativa da dívida pública interna na riqueza financeira dos agentes privados: um estudo exploratório
2000-12-01O objetivo deste artigo é verificar quais as variáveis que explicam a participação da dívida interna pública na riqueza financeira dos agentes, M4. Constata-se que a taxa real de juros ( variável fundamental em modelos de ... -
The queen bee: A myth? The effect of top-level female leadership on subordinate females
2018We investigate the effect of female leadership on gender differences in public and private organizations. Female leadership was constructed using a quasi-experiment involving mayoral elections, and our research used a ... -
Regime político e participação do legislativo na determinação da taxa de câmbio de países que conviveram com elevada inflação e persistentes déficits em transações correntes: os casos de Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, México e Peru entre 1970 e 1989
2004The main of this article is verify the political variables influence on the exchange rate determination of four Latin American countries that lived with both high inflation and the current account deficit on 70´s and 80´s. ... -
Should voters be afraid of hard budget constraint legislation? Fiscal responsibility law in Brazilian municipalities
2010-06-29This manuscript demonstrates that voters have nothing to be afraid of when new hard budget constraint legislation is implemented. Our claim is that this kind of legislation reduces the asymmetry of information between ... -
Superior economic performance in developed and developing countries
2017Purpose - The extant literature on emerging economies states that the development of the institutional context contributes to the creation of hypercompetitive conditions. The purpose of this paper is to test this assertion ... -
Tamanho do governo Brasileiro: conceitos e medidas
2010-02-01The purpose of this paper is to build a measure of government size for Brazil in terms of state-owned companies. We build the government size considering the federal government's current expenditure (international measure) ... -
Vertical transfers and the appropriation of resources by the bureaucracy: the case of Brazilian state governments
2009-10The purpose of this study is to explore whether the transfers received by state governments in Brazil are being appropriated by the bureaucracy as wages. The wage differential between the public and private sectors was ...
