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Does a survey based capacity utilization measure help predicting Brazilian output gap in real-time?
2016The aim of the paper is to assess the informational content of a survey-based measure of the Brazilian manufacturing capacity utilization rate produced by the Brazilian Institute of Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation. ... -
Ex-post Evaluation of Mergers in the Supermarket Industry
2018In this paper we quantify the effects of horizontal mergers in the supermarket sector that took place in the US between 2003 and 2005. We contribute to the growing literature on ex-post merger evaluations in three ways: ... -
A hybrid spline-based parametric model for the yield curve
2018Empirical evidence indicates that both nominal and real yield curves in important markets have segmentation between their short end and their longer-maturity segments. This segmentation might affect term structure estimation, ... -
From closed source to open source software: Analysis of the migration process to Open Office
2017This article seeks to analyse the migration trajectory from commercial off-the-shelf and closed source software to open source software in order to establish the critical success/resistance factors associated with the ... -
Public transport and school location impacts on educational inequalities: Insights from São Paulo
2018In many large Latin American urban areas such as the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), growing social and economic inequalities are embedded through high spatial inequality in the provision of state schools and affordable ... -
Optimal control of bilinear systems in a complex space setting
2017In this paper we discuss optimality conditions for optimal control problems with a semigroup structure. As an application we detail the case when the state equation is the Schrödinger one, with pointwise constraints on the ... -
The brand meaning co-creation process on Facebook
2017Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for brand meaning co-creation between brands and fans on Facebook. Design/methodology/approach: A case study methodology was applied. Brand posts in the form of ... -
Regulation inside government: The challenges of regulating a government-owned utility
2017This article explores the process of independent regulation of a government-owned utility (GOU) in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector drawing on the theory of regulation inside government. Our fieldwork focused ... -
Sex and credit: Do gender interactions matter for credit market outcomes?
2018This paper studies the effects of gender interactions on the supply of and demand for credit using data from a large Albanian lender. We document that first-time borrowers assigned to officers of the opposite sex are less ... -
Sophistication and price impact of foreign investors in the Brazilian stock market
2017The purposes of this paper are to investigate the informational sophistication of foreign investors in the Brazilian stock market and to assess the price impact on local securities generated by the trading conducted by ... -
Barrier style contracts under Lévy processes once again
2018In this paper we present new pricing formulas for some Barrier style contracts of European type when the underlying process is driven by an important class of Lévy processes, which includes CGMY model, generalized hyperbolic ... -
Historical models and economic syllogisms
2018This paper proposes a classification of economic models into three types: historical, axiomatic and conditional. Historical or empirical models utilize the historical-deductive method, and are generalizations from the ... -
Litterfall mass and nutrient fluxes over an altitudinal gradient in the coastal Atlantic Forest, Brazil
2017Litterfall is one of the most important pathways through which nutrients are recycled in the terrestrial biosphere. In tropical soils, which are generally low in essential nutrients such as phosphorus and cations, the flux ... -
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 ... -
Dynamic contracting under adverse selection and renegotiation
2017We study the effects of renegotiation in an infinitely-repeated screening model with long-term contracts. We propose a simple and tractable recursive formulation to study equilibria in which the monopolist's profit is ... -
Does the capital of social capital matter? Relational resources of the board and the performance of Brazilian companies
2018Based on theories of social capital, in this study, we seek to assess the impact of a board’s social capital on the market value of companies listed on the Brazilian stock exchange. As our indicator of social capital, we ... -
Executive programs for Brazilian mid-career public managers: Pitfalls and challenges
2017This paper discusses the challenges of professional education for mid-career public managers at graduate level, pointing out pitfalls to avoid and obstacles to face. Analyzing the Brazilian case, the goal is to raise issues ... -
Wage increases, transfers, and the socially determined income distribution in the USA
2017This paper is based on a social accounting matrix (SAM) which incorporates the size distribution of income based on data from the BEA national accounts, the widely discussed 2012 CBO distribution study, and BLS consumer ... -
The Celsius Game: an experiential activity on management education simulating the complex challenges for the two-degree climate change target
2017As efforts for the sustainable development agenda evolve within the context of UN's Global Compact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the field of management education presents its own challenges. From an educational ...
