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Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2016We show that the usual inference methods used in Di fferences-in-Di fferences (DID) might not perform well with few treated groups and heteroskedastic errors. One important example is when there is variation in the number ... -
Exploring Latin America's responses to the great recession
2016Latin America's strong performance following the Great Recession has surprised analysts and the media alike. The region not only outperformed other economies in the same period, but displayed far better results than those ... -
The impact of government equity investment on internationalization: the case of Brazil
2016We examine the impact of government equity ownership on the degree of internationalization of emerging market firms. Our analysis of 173 Brazilian publicly traded firms from 2002 to 2011 shows that the higher the equity ... -
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 ... -
Sorting in higher education in Brazil
2016This paper investigates students sorting in higher education in Brazil based on three merged databases: (i) the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD/IBGE), (ii) the National Exam of Student Performance (ENADE), and (iii) ... -
Coalition management under divided/unified government
2016If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress must be the Congress,' says a popular joke about the divided government in the US two-party presidential regime. Divided government occurs when different political ... -
Governance formation process in Nongovernmental Organization (NGO): context, history and emergent factors
2016In a previous study we developed a taxonomy proposal to classify models and governance mechanisms used by the Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) in Brazil, considering the collective decision making process, strategic ... -
A critical assessment of Brazilian manufacturing competitiveness in foreign markets
2016Purpose – This study aims to examine the competitiveness of firms operating in the emerging economy of Brazil. This study examines the current perception of Brazilian business leaders regarding the level of competitiveness ... -
O exercício do controle social sobre a administração pública com o auxílio dos Tribunais de Contas Brasileiros
2016O propósito deste trabalho é discutir possíveis diferenças conceituais sobre os vocábulos participação e controle social, bem como levantar mecanismos e indicadores de controle social que possam aferir tanto a permeabilidade ... -
Seminário: as questões climáticas e os impactos nos negócios de energia
2016A presente publicação visa lançar como tema de pesquisa “As questões climáticas e os impactos nos negócios de energia” como um dos temas de importância do centro de estudos em energia. -
Second order analysis of control-affine problems with scalar state constraint
2016-01-09In this article we establish new second order necessary and sufficient opti- mality conditions for a class of control-affine problems with a scalar control and a scalar state constraint. These optimality conditions extend ... -
Brazil in transition: beliefs, leadership, and institutional change
2016-05Brazil 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 ... -
Revisiting the synthetic control estimator
2016-06-16VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL. -
Taxation of couples: a mirrleesian approach for non-unitary households
2016-07-02Optimal tax theory in the Mirrlees’ (1971) tradition implicitly relies on the assumption that all agents are single or that couples may be treated as individuals, despite accumulating evidence against this view of household ... -
Spillovers in a decentralized health economy
2016-11We estimate the direct as well as the spillover effect of a federal grant (Municipalities’ Participation Fund, FPM)) on local health indicators in Brazilian municipalities. We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) ... -
Brazilian economic outlook
2016-11-01
