Browsing FGV EPGE - Ensaios Econômicos by Subject "Economia"
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Bandas de cambio : teoria, evidencia empirica e sua possivel aplicação no Brasil
1994-04Este relatório visa o estudo de bandas de câmbio em seus diferentes aspectos. Na primeira parte está apresentada uma versão simplificada, não matemática, da teoria das bandas de câmbio e de suas experiências nos diversos ... -
Banning information as a redistributive device
2004-07-01In this paper we analyze the optimality of allowing firms to observe signals of workers’ characteristics in an optimal taxation framework. We show that it is always optimal to prohibit signals that disclose information ... -
Barreiras a entrada: o caso do setor de creme dental brasileiro
1997-01Ao se estudar as consequências sobre o bem-estar social de um mercado relevante onde há elevada concentração na produção, deve-se identificar, primeiramente, se a competição potencial existe. Uma forma de detecta-la seria ... -
The Bayesian Foundations of solution concepts of games
1987We transform a non co-operati ve game into a -Bayesian decision problem for each player where the uncertainty faced by a player is the strategy choices of the other players, the pr iors of other players on the choice of ... -
Beyond indifferent players: on the existence of prisoners dilemmas in games with amicable and adversarial preferences
2004-12-01Why don’t agents cooperate when they both stand to gain? This question ranks among the most fundamental in the social sciences. Explanations abound. Among the most compelling are various configurations of the prisoner’s ... -
Biased managers, organizational design, and incentive provision
2004-02-01We model the tradeoff between the balance and the strength of incentives implicit in the choice between hierarchical and matrix organizational structures. We show that managerial biases determine which structure is optimal: ... -
Bounds for the probability distribution function of the linear ACD process
2003-07-01This paper derives both lower and upper bounds for the probability distribution function of stationary ACD(p, q) processes. For the purpose of illustration, I specialize the results to the main parent distributions in ... -
O Brasil precisa de política industrial? De que tipo?
2006-10-01Este trabalho discute a conveniência do uso de políticas industrias no Brasil. Argumenta-se que o sucesso dos países do Leste Asiático, muitas vezes relacionado ao uso de política industrial (PI), é resultado principalmente ... -
Brazil's middle classes
2014-12-23This paper discusses the Brazilian middle class, its definition, evolution, profile, attitudes and durability. It describes the methodology that uses per capita household income derived from household surveys to determine ... -
Brazil: steps toward investment grade
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Brazil: the pressure points in labor legislation
2000-07-01Brazil’s experience shows that the economic and political history of a country is a critical determinant of which labor laws influence wages and employment, and which are not binding. Long periods of high inflation, ... -
The brazilian education quality index (Ideb): measurement and incentives upgrades
2008-12-29The increasing availability of social statistics in Latin America opens new possibilities in terms of accountability and incentive mechanisms for policy makers. This paper addresses these issues within the institutional ... -
Brazilian indexing and inertial inflation: evidence from time-varying estimates of an inflation transfer function
1986This paper is a theoretica1 and empirica1 study of the re1ationship between indexing po1icy and feedback mechanisms in the inflationary adjustment process in Brazil. The focus of our study is on two policy issues: (1) did ...
