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Unconditional quantile regressions
2009-05We propose a new regression method to evaluate the impact of changes in the distribution of the explanatory variables on quantiles of the unconditional (marginal) distribution of an outcome variable. The proposed method ... -
A public policy approach to local models of HIV/AIDS control in Brazil
2009-06Objectives. We investigated involvement and cooperation patterns of local Brazilian AIDS program actors and the consequences of these patterns for program implementation and sustainability. Methods. We performed a public ... -
The favela and its touristic transits
2009-07The article discusses the development of the favela into a tourist attraction. Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, is the paradigmatic 'tourist favela', with tours taking place regularly since the early 1990s and with three thousand ... -
A reconstrução racional do programa de pesquisa sobre o racionalismo clássico: Locke e a vertente empirista
2009-08Este artigo pretende reconstruir racionalmente a teoria do conhecimento de Locke enquanto incorporado a um programa de pesquisa acerca da natureza e estrutura das teorias e modelos da racionalidade. Sustentamos em artigos ... -
Are interest rate options important for the assessment of interest rate risk?
2009-08Fixed income options contain substantial information on the price of interest rate volatility risk. In this paper, we ask if those options will also provide information related to other moments of the objective distribution ... -
On the integrability of money-demand functions by the Sidrauski and the shopping-time models
2009-09This paper investigates which properties money-demand functions must satisfy so that they are consistent with Lucas's [Lucas Jr., R.E., 2000. Inflation and welfare. Econometrica 68, 247-274] versions of the Sidrauski and ... -
The Athenian economy in light of the welfare state: Karl Polanyi's work in perspective
2009-09Karl Polanyi considered that the relationship between the markets and their societies was a central feature of any social order. He studied what he called 'ancient societies,' to compare them with his own times, in an ... -
Political and institutional checks on corruption explaining the performance of Brazilian audit institutions
2009-09This article investigates the performance determinants of accountability institutions in new democracies. Current scholarship on accountability has identified a distinct mechanism through which the introduction of political ... -
Estimating cellphone providers' customer equity
2009-09This paper provides insights about how customer equity estimates can help businesses monitor the competition as well as aid managers in making their marketing investment decisions, and how companies can employ their marketing ... -
Theory of constraints and the combinatorial complexity of the product-mix decision
2009-09The theory of constraints (TOC) proposes that, when production is bounded by a single bottleneck, the best product mix heuristic is to select products based on their ratio of throughput per constraint use. This, however, ... -
Multiproduct price competition with heterogeneous consumers and nonconvex costs
2009-09-20This paper extends the oligopolistic model of price competition to environments with multiple goods, heterogeneous consumers, and arbitrary continuous cost functions. A Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies with an endogenous ... -
Endogenous mechanisms and nash equilibrium in competitive contracting games
2009-09-20We model strategic competition in a market with asymmetric information as a noncooperative game in which each firm competes for the business of a buyer of unknown type by offering the buyer a catalog of products and prices. ... -
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 ... -
Tests with correct size when instruments can be arbitrarily weak
2009-10This paper applies classical exponential-family statistical theory to develop a unifying framework for testing structural parameters in the simultaneous equations model under the assumption of normal errors with known ... -
A feedback learning and mental models perspective on strategic decision making
2009-10This study aims to be a contribution to a theoretical model that explains the effectiveness of the learning and decision-making processes by means of a feedback and mental models perspective. With appropriate mental models, ... -
The corruption-enhancing role of re-election incentives? Counterintuitive evidence from Brazil's audit reports
2009-12Traditional wisdom on the effect of re-election on incumbent performance is that first-term politicians refrain from rent extraction because they want to be re-elected. The authors find no evidence to support this belief. ... -
Aportes a Oratio de Hominis Dignitate de Pico della Mirandola
2009-12O artigo circunscreve, progressivamente, as concepções de homem e de dignidade humana desde Sófocles até Oratio de Hominis Dignitate, de Pico della Mirandola, escrita em 1486, considerada “il manifesto del Rinascimento”. ... -
O processo de internacionalização como elemento gerador de capacidades dinâmicas: o caso da WEG na Argentina e na China
2009-12The objective of he article is to research the dynamic capacities developed and used by WEG in its internationalization process and to explain how these capacities help the company defends and supports competitive advantage. ... -
Demanda variável e lucratividade em empresas prestadoras de serviços: um estudo de caso no setor de tecnologia da informação
2009-12Managing a variable demand scenario is particularly challenging on services organizations because services companies usually have a major part of fixed costs. The article studies how a services organization manages its ... -
Managing sustainability with the support of business intelligence: integrating socio-environmental indicators and organisational context
2009-12In this paper we explore how management of sustainability in organisations can be supported by business intelligence (BI) systems. We suggest that BI has an important role to play in helping organisations implement and ...
