We 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 ...

The external finance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is limited to private debt such as bank credit and trade credit. SMEs generally prefer bank credit over trade credit because the former tends to be less ...

How does welfare change in the short- and long-run in high wage countries when integrating with low wage economies like China? Even if consumers benefit from lower prices, there can be significant welfare losses from ...

In 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 ...

Optimal 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 ...

This seminar invites us to discuss Shakespeare and his culture on the stage and on the page.

This paper aims to analyze and describe the institutional evolution of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization responsible for the management of domain names and Internet communications ...

This article aims to reflect on restorative justice as a possible paradigm of institutional reform in the Brazilian context, given the numerous structural problems in its prison system. Initially, a diagnosis of the current ...