A publicação é resultado do Seminário 'O Brasil e a Alca', realizado em outubro de 2001 e coordenado pelo profº Marcos Cintra. A obra abrange a questão da inserção do Brasil na economia mundial envolvendo o Mercosul, a ...

The aim of this is to discuss the process of 'learning' in Economics. The basic to be considered is that the 'Rational Expectation Hipothesis' is not consistent with that process, and that in order to include it in our ...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the relations between regulation, competition policy and consumer protection these relations in three key sectors of Brazil’s infrastructure: telecommunications, electricity and ...

Corruption is a phenomenon that plagues many countries and, mostly, walks hand in hand with inefficient institutional structures, which reduce the effectiveness of public and private investment. In countries with widespread ...

Latin America is the region that bears the highest rates of inequality in the world. Deininger and Squire (1996) showed that Latin American countries achieved only minor reductions in inequality between 1960 and 1990. On ...