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    • Affirmative action and interracial friendships 

      Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Stinebrickner, Ralph; Stinebrickner, Todd
      2010-06-01
      In two recent cases involving the University of Michigan, the Supreme Court examined whether race should be allowed to play an explicit role in the admission decisions of schools. The primary argument in these court cases ...

    • Career concerns: a human capital perspective 

      Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Pastorino, Elena
      2012-09-12
      We introduce human capital accumulation, in the form of learning by doing, in a life cycle model of career concerns and analyze how human capital acquisition a ects implicit incentives for performance. We show that standard ...

    • Learning-by-employing: the value of commitment 

      Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Pastorino, Elena
      2010-06-24
      We analyze a dynamic principal–agent model where an infinitely-lived principal faces a sequence of finitely-lived agents who differ in their ability to produce output. The ability of an agent is initially unknown to both ...

    • Limited memory and the essentiality of money 

      Araujo, Luis Fernando Oliveira de; Camargo, Bráz Ministério de
      2010-06-25
      This paper investigates the relationship between memory and the essentiality of money. We consider a random matching economy with a large finite population in which commitment is not possible and memory is limited in the ...

    • Monetary equilibrium with decentralized trade and learning 

      Araujo, Luis Fernando Oliveira de; Camargo, Bráz Ministério de
      2010-06-25
      This paper analyzes the stability of monetary regimes in an economy where fiat money is endogenously created by the government, information about its value is imperfect, and learning is decentralized. We show that monetary ...

    • Money versus memory 

      Araujo, Luis Fernando Oliveira de; Camargo, Bráz Ministério de
      2010-06-25
      A well–established fact in monetary theory is that a key ingredient for the essentiality of money is its role as a form of memory. In this paper we study a notion of memory that includes information about an agent’s past ...

    • Test score disclosure and school performance 

      Camargo, Bráz Ministério de; Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro
      2012-09-12
      In this paper we test whether the disclosure of test scores has direct impacts on student performance, school composition and school inputs. We take advantage of the discontinuity on the disclosure rules of The National ...