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Solving euler equations: classical methods and the C1 contraction mapping method revisited
2006In this paper we describe the classical methods used to solve the Euler equations. Special attention is devoted to the iterative method based on a contraction mapping derived from these equations in Maldonado and Moreira ... -
An empirical model of the Brazilian country risk - An extension of the beta country risk model
2006This paper develops a statistical model to study the Brazilian country risk using a country beta model in the spirit of Harvey and Zhou (1993), Erb et al. (1996a, b) and Gangemi et al . (2000). Specifically, the impact of ... -
Aprendizagem corporativa e acumulação tecnológica: a trajetória de uma empresa de transmissão de energia elétrica no norte do Brasil
2006Based on an intra-company standpoint, this article examines the implications of underlying learning processes in the accumulation of technological capability in an electrical energy transmission company in Northern Brazil ... -
Lessons learnt from an unsuccessful G2G endeavor in brazil
2006In recent years, many governments have seized the moment provided by Information Technology as the ideal opportunity to rethink their administrative praxis. This restructuring concentrates not only on the internal aspects ... -
Globalisation of innovative capabilities: Evidence from local and foreign firms in the electronics industry in Malaysia and Brazil
2006The focus of this article is to examine the extent to which firms in the electronics industry in Malaysia and Brazil (Manaus) have developed significant levels of innovative technological capabilities (TCs). By examining ... -
The Brazilian fiscal adjustment: structural change and policy continuity, 1995-2004
2006This chapter discusses fiscal adjustment in Brazil since macroeconomic stabilisation in the mid-1990s. It is argued that the authorities' growing awareness of the need for fiscal discipline was as important as the pace of ... -
The financial potential of sporadic customers in E-retailing: Evidence from the brazilian home appliance sector
2006The scope of this article is to explore the transaction profitability of frequent and sporadic buyers in the e-commerce arena. Evidence in relationship marketing literature stressing the impact of purchase frequency on ... -
Política externa como política pública: uma análise pela regulamentação constitucional brasileira (1967-1988)
2006The goal of this paper is to relate debates on foreign policy and public policy through a constitutional perspective. To free ourselves from the consensus that exists around the notion that foreign policy has always been ... -
A note on the non-convexity problem in some shopping-time and human-capital models
2006Several works in the shopping-time and in the human-capital literature, due to the non-concavity of the underlying Hamiltonian, use first-order conditions in dynamic optimization to characterize necessity, but not sufficiency, ... -
Ageing and leisure among business people in Sao Paulo
2006This paper draws from exploratory research conducted within in a larger project on leisure changes across family life cycles. It reports the results of interviews with 17 males who had graduated from an elite business ... -
Redesigning the food chain: trade, investment and strategic alliances in the orange juice industry
2006Change in trade barriers and capital flow creates opportunities for redesigning the food chain. The orange juice chain in U.S. and Brazil provides an interesting illustration of how institutional harmonization, high import ... -
European bank penetration during the first wave of globalisation: Lessons from Brazil and Chile, 1878-1913
2006Although the macroeconomics of Latin America during the first wave of globalisation has been largely documented, key microeconomic aspects remain insufficiently studied. This is the case for the process of the foreign bank ... -
Electricity consumption as a predictor of household income: an spatial statistics approach
2006This paper investigates the relationship between electricity consumption, economic classification and household income, by means of comparing Brazilian Census Micro-Data with the customer database of AES Eletropaulo, a ... -
Atenção básica em saúde: comparação entre PSF e UBS por estrato de exclusão social no município de São Paulo
2006Within the baseline studies of the PROESF, this article aims to compare the assistance modalities PSF and the traditional UBS per stratum of socially excluded users in São Paulo. The study is considering the opinions of ... -
The Brazilian federation: Facts, challenges, and perspectives
2006INTRODUCTION Following decades of protectionism and a powerful interventionist state, the Brazilian economy suddenly exposed itself to external competition and went through a rapid process of privatization. The institutional ... -
Uniform payoff security and Nash equilibrium in compact games
2007We introduce a condition, uniform payoff security, for games with compact Hausdorff strategy spaces and payoffs bounded and measurable in players' strategies. We show that if any such compact game G is uniformly payoff ... -
Testing household-specific explanations for the inverse productivity relationship
2007The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ... -
The decisional juridical discourse of the appellate body of the WTO: Among treaties and dictionaries as referents
2007This present paper is devoted to the analysis of the decisional juridical discourses of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. For this end, we decided to develop the research around two poles which shall be ... -
Institutional quality and endogenous economic growth
2007Purpose - This paper seeks to investigate the relation among corruption, institutional quality and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach - It expands the Erlich and Lui (JPE) endogenous growth model. From this model, ... -
Orçamento de capital
2007De acordo com Pindyck (1988), a maior parte ou mesmo a totalidade dos gastos com investimentos em projetos reais é irreversível. Por isso é vital para a sobrevivência a longo prazo das empresas que elas utilizem seus ...
