Listagem por autor "Mello, João Manoel Pinho de"
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Dry law and homicides: evidence from the São Paulo metropolitan area
2009We use time-series and cross-section variation in adoption of dry laws in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) to measure the impact of recreational consumption of alcohol on violent behavior. Adoption of dry laws causes ... -
Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
2010-06-16We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ... -
Imperfect competition, entry and taxation of commodity producers
2012-08Apresentação do palestrante Vinicius Carrasco Pontifícia - Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro no contexto do evento "The Economics and Econometrics of Commodity Prices". Mais informações em: <http://epge.fgv.br/conf ... -
Information asymmetry and competition in credit markets: the pricing of overdraft loans in Brazil
2005-02-17This paper evaluates how information asymmetry affects the strength of competition in credit markets. A theory is presented in which adverse selection softens competition by decreasing the incentives creditors have for ... -
Informational spillovers in the pre-1914 London sovereign debt market
2007-06-21We document a novel type of international financial contagion whose driving force is shared financial intermediation. In the London peripheral sovereign debt market during pre-1914 period financial intermediation played a ... -
Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil
2016This paper investigates the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with geo-referenced crime information from the city of São ...
