This paper investigates what are the main components of consumer's inflation expectations. We combine the FGV's Consumer Survey with the indices of inflation (IPCA and government regulated prices), professional forecasts ...

This paper extends the idea of Brezinski's hybrid acceleration procedure, for the solution of a system of linear equations with a symmetric coefficient matrix of dimension n, to a new context called cooperative computation, ...

The adoption of Benefits Management (BM) is important to ensure that information technology (IT) projects add value to the organization; however, the literature still lacks empirical evidence about how organizations are ...

The paper analyzes the multiple ways in which the discourse of diversity has been enunciated in the corporate realm. Such discourse is currently stated as human capital or human resource, it appears as a symbolic asset in ...

This paper discusses how partnership between local organisations and Government inside governance spaces affects local development. The aim is to raise some critical issues about the concept of partnership and about ...

Following the dynamism in spin-off research, in this study we conduct a structural and longitudinal bibliometric analysis of a sample of 812 articles on spin-offs published in 234 journals included in the ISI Web of Knowledge ...

Manuscript typeEmpirical Research Question/IssueThis study investigates the interplay between country-level governance quality and the capital structure choice at the firm level in Brazil and Chile. We examine the association ...

This article studies the non-parametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified ...

The development of a steam turbine dynamic model for full scope power plant simulators is described in this work. Model completeness is one of the main features of the model developed as it attempts to completely cover the ...

In this work we investigate the influence that nicotine exerts on attention focusing, modeling the coupling of reward and thalamocortical circuits. Each neuron in the neural networks that replicate such circuits is described ...