https://hdl.handle.net/10438/17371 2021-11-28T19:38:41Z 2021-11-28T19:38:41Z Silva, Alexandre Pacheco da Aquino, Theófilo https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27792 2019-11-13T17:17:02Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impacts of new technology in legal services Silva, Alexandre Pacheco da; Aquino, Theófilo

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Alston, Lee J. Melo, Marcus André B. C. de Bernardo, Mueller Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27779 2021-04-20T02:03:20Z 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brazil in transition: beliefs, leadership, and institutional change Alston, Lee J.; Melo, Marcus André B. C. de; Bernardo, Mueller; Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Brazil is the world’s sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder. The authors examine the roles of beliefs, leadership, and institutions in the elusive, critical transition to sustainable development. Analyzing the last fifty years of Brazil’s history, the authors explain how the nation’s beliefs, centered on social inclusion yet bound by orthodox economic policies, led to institutions that altered economic, political, and social outcomes. Brazil’s growth and inflation became less variable, the rule of law strengthened, politics became more open and competitive, and poverty and inequality declined. While these changes have led to a remarkable economic transformation, there have also been economic distortions and inefficiencies that the authors argue are part of the development process. Brazil in Transition demonstrates how a dynamic nation seized windows of opportunity to become a more equal, prosperous, and rules-based society.

2016-05-01T00:00:00Z Hallerberg, Mark Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27778 2021-04-20T01:48:38Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unexpected outcome of fiscal rules: the fiscal responsibility law and increases in social spending in municipal Brazil Hallerberg, Mark; Pereira Filho, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Much work has been done on the impact of fiscal rules on fiscal discipline, usually measured as either changes in budget deficits or debt burdens, but there is little comparative research on the impact of such rules on the distribution of spending and on spending outcomes. Moreover, the effects of such rules are not static, and may depend upon whether a given government is dealing with an economic boom or bust or which party or parties are in office. In this paper, we argue that fiscal rules reduce the asymmetry of information between voters and incumbents over the budget and, as a consequence, the latter reduces their rent increasing the supply of public goods. At the same time, which types of public good receive higher priority depends upon which party is in power. To examine this argument, we focus on the budgets of municipalities in Brazil. We examine the distribution, and changes in, spending across different portfolios in a period without such rules in place and after the country’s Fiscal Responsibility Law (FRL) entered force. The Law passed at the national level and is exogenous to all municipalities. Moreover, different cities experienced substantial economic booms and economic busts owing at least in party to largely exogenous factors, such as changes in commodity prices. We show that the imposition of the rule generally led to increases in social expenditures through 2010. We also find a “de facto” higher supply of public goods in most the important expenditure at the municipal level: education. In broader theoretical terms, these findings suggest that a fiscal rule like the FRL can affect more than fiscal discipline. It can also lead to greater shifts in budget allocations to a given party’s most preferred policy area, which in turn increases “allocative efficiency.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Silva, Alexandre Pacheco da https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27776 2021-04-19T03:30:44Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

The future of legal professions Silva, Alexandre Pacheco da

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Silveira, Rafael Alcadipani da https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27775 2021-04-19T03:27:50Z 2017-07-03T00:00:00Z

“They killed my friend!”: the impact of death in organization identification Silveira, Rafael Alcadipani da

2017-07-03T00:00:00Z Desconhecido https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27774 2021-04-19T03:19:34Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the use of multi-stakeholder governance in institutional crises Desconhecido Institutional crises might affect the credibility of companies but also a specific sector. This study illustrates that organizations purposively engage in multiple partnerships, across different institutional levels, and in multiple steps to restore legitimacy in a system. To illustrate this argument, we analyse how Brazilian multinational beef processors reacted following a Greenpeace’s report release in between 2009 and 2015 at two levels. This embedded case study was carried out with field visits, 30 interviews with multiple stakeholders and secondary data analysis. Findings show that it started at institutional level with selecting key stakeholders to set sustainable standards for beef production. Then, multiple partnerships at the value chain level at the Amazon region to promote the change. This study contributes to an systemic understanding of multi-stakeholder governance as the actual changes happen in value chain describing the process of interconnecting and linking these two levels of analysis (institutional and value chain).

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Donna, Javier Pereira, Pedro Pires, Tiago Andrade, André https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27753 2019-10-07T20:12:46Z 2018-12-10T00:00:00Z

Measuring the welfare of intermediaries in vertical markets Donna, Javier; Pereira, Pedro; Pires, Tiago; Andrade, André We empirically investigate the welfare of intermediaries in oligopolistic markets, where intermediaries offer additional services. We exploit the unique circumstance that, in our empirical setting, consumers can purchase from manufacturers or intermediaries. We specify an equilibrium model, and estimate it using product-level data. The demand includes consumers with costly search and channel-specific preferences. The supply includes two distribution channels. One features bargaining about wholesale prices between manufacturers and intermediaries, and price competition among intermediaries. The other is vertically integrated. The model is used to simulate counterfactuals, where intermediaries do not offer additional services. We find that intermediaries increase welfare.

2018-12-10T00:00:00Z Teles, Vladimir Kuhl Vasconcelos, Rafael da Silva https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27751 2019-07-29T14:16:35Z 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z

The role of resource misallocation in structural change Teles, Vladimir Kuhl; Vasconcelos, Rafael da Silva We develop a multi-sector model of economic growth to explain the distinct patterns of structural change in manufacturing sectors in industrialized countries and those in developing and emerging industrial countries. To this end, we include a redistribution mechanism generated by a government because this mechanism affects an economy’s relative prices and dynamic of resource allocation. This mechanism can imply changes in the production structure or the perpetuation of structures harmful to economic growth. We also demonstrate that sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change and unbalanced aggregate growth in this environment impose fewer restrictions on the elasticity of substitution between intermediate goods, the technological gap across sectors and the household’s income effect. Moreover, using micro-founded parameters, our numerical results are consistent with the observed data from Brazilian industry.

2019-02-27T00:00:00Z Beltrão, Kaizô I. Dellasoppa, Emilio https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27749 2020-02-18T19:21:10Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

State crimes: extrajudicial killings and the unknown and (misclassified, etc.) unspecified data. Deaths by police officers in Brazil (RJ, SP, BA): 1996/2014 Beltrão, Kaizô I.; Dellasoppa, Emilio

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Siqueira, Érica Souza Diniz, Eduardo Henrique Gonzalez, Lauro https://hdl.handle.net/10438/27743 2019-07-24T18:39:44Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Socialtech: fintech with social goals and hybridism in emergent technological platforms of social financial organizations Siqueira, Érica Souza; Diniz, Eduardo Henrique; Gonzalez, Lauro

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z