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    • Finanças públicas municipais 

      Korff, Eurico
      1977-10-01
    • Grants and dispersion of local education spending in Brazil 

      Mattos, Enlinson; Politi, Ricardo Batista; Yamaguchi, Afonso
      2018
      Grants and dispersion of local education spending in Brazil. Regional Studies. Since several federations rely on a decentralized system of public education, understanding local responses to intergovernmental grants is a ...
    • Inequality and size of government: Evidence from Brazilian states 

      Mattos, Enlinson; Rocha, Fabiana
      2008
      Purpose - This paper seeks to investigate the role of income-inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach - First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial ...
    • On the sovereign debt paradox 

      Martins-da-Rocha, Victor Filipe; Vailakis, Yiannis
      2017-12
      Bulow and Rogoff (Am Econ Rev 79(1):43-50, 1989) show that lending to small countries cannot be supported merely on the country's 'reputation for repayment' if exclusion from future credit markets is the only consequence ...
    • The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power 

      Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; Sanfelice, Viviane
      2015-09
      The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such strategy is rewarded ...