Browsing Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas by Author "Arvate, Paulo Roberto"
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Corruption and the size of government: causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries
2010The purpose of this article is to examine the causality between government size and corruption, and to verify if there is a different pattern of causality between developed Organization for Economic Co-operation and ... -
Diferentes padrões de políticas salariais nos estados brasileiros: uma análise a partir do diferencial de salários público-privado
2009-09-01Public servant wages represent a significant part of Brazilian state governments' current expenses. Based on the literature, this paper has tried to identify which states practice efficient, compensatory or appropriation ... -
Electoral competition and local government responsiveness in Brazil
2013-03The empirical literature on the effects of competition on the supply of public goods shows controversial results at the local level. The main objective of this paper is to investigate this relationship in a federalist ... -
Fiscal conservatism in a new democracy: 'sophisticated' versus 'naive' voters
2009-02We use data from gubernatorial elections in Brazil to test the electoral reactions of 'sophisticated' and ''naive' voters to fiscal surpluses. Our results complement Brender and Drazen [Brender, Adi, and Drazen, A., (2005b), ... -
Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor
2017We explore an electoral quasi-experiment where a woman nearly won or lost to a man in a mayoral election. Our data combines municipal Brazilian election results, which occur every four years, with municipal level votes for ... -
Institutional quality and capital taxation
2016-02We describe the preferred taxation regime in a small economy with uncertain institutional quality. We obtain that a preferential taxation regime in which taxes can be matched to the mobility of the tax base may be worse ... -
Lighting and homicides: evaluating the effect of an electrification policy in rural Brazil on violent crime reduction
2017Introduction: This study estimates the effects of lighting on homicides in rural areas of developing countries. Methods: We use an IV strategy by exploring the LUZ PARA TODOS or Light for All (LPT) program that was adopted ... -
The queen bee: A myth? The effect of top-level female leadership on subordinate females
2018We investigate the effect of female leadership on gender differences in public and private organizations. Female leadership was constructed using a quasi-experiment involving mayoral elections, and our research used a ... -
Superior economic performance in developed and developing countries
2017Purpose - The extant literature on emerging economies states that the development of the institutional context contributes to the creation of hypercompetitive conditions. The purpose of this paper is to test this assertion ... -
Tamanho do governo Brasileiro: conceitos e medidas
2010-02-01The purpose of this paper is to build a measure of government size for Brazil in terms of state-owned companies. We build the government size considering the federal government's current expenditure (international measure) ... -
Vertical transfers and the appropriation of resources by the bureaucracy: the case of Brazilian state governments
2009-10The purpose of this study is to explore whether the transfers received by state governments in Brazil are being appropriated by the bureaucracy as wages. The wage differential between the public and private sectors was ...
