We apply the Thurstone method of unidimensional psychometric scaling to data sampled by CNI/IBOPE in three di¤erent periods before the Brazilian presidential election in 2010 regarding voting intention with respect to the main three candidates. Our results coincide with the overall rank of the...

Em um duopólio de Cournot em que o efeito-cruzado da demanda é incerto e as …rmas são diferentemente informadas, um resultado de Chokler et alii (2006) mostra que a …rma melhor informada possui vantagem informacional (tem lucros esperados maiores) no caso de valores privados independentes e...

We build multidimensional fuzzy versions of the headcount and the Foster-Greer- Thorbecke poverty indexes comprised of ordinal variables. To do that, we de…ne ordinal expectation and ordinal variance for ordinal variables and extend Theils theory of dual variability to ordinal categorical...

The paper analyzes the debate between mettalism and “papelismo” which took place in Brazil in the second half of the 19th century and advocates that the latter was one of the currents that contributed for the genesis of developmentalism. In order to do so, it reviews the monetary...

A literatura recente tem sido pouco conclusiva a respeito dos determinantes do processo de desindustrialização vivenciado pela economia brasileira desde o final da década de 1980. Neste sentido, esse artigo contribui para o debate com uma abordagem econométrica baseada na metodologia...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of adopting an inflation targeting regime, in which central banks set the short-term interest rate as a response to deviations of inflation from its target and of output from its potential, over economic growth. To this end, we build a non-linear...

We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...

Peñaloza (J. of Math. Econ., 2009) modeled the functioning of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems as an in…nite dimensional linear programming prob- lem and used duality theory to determine the shadow-prices of banks. Though he proved the existence of optimal settlement rules in RTGS...

In this paper it is shown that permanent variations in the level of the exchange rate play an important role in the sectoral composition of the economy and this fact has important implications in terms of a disaggregated version of the Thirlwall’s law even if the argument of the quantitative...