Managed care capitation contracts provide monetary incentives for doctors to save medical costs while standard health insurance contracts do not. The paper proposes an alternative model for insurance markets which is used to analyze managed care contracts. In our model, households would like to...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de geração de empregos por porte de empresa no setor industrial, no período de 1986 a 1995. A base de dados foi criada a partir de uma subamostra da Pesquisa Industrial Anual (PIA) - realizada pelo Departamento de Indústria do IBGE. De acordo...

As a result of the consolidation of the democracy after the end of the military regime in the mid-1980s, Brazil has gone through a period of remarkable decentralization both in fiscal and political terms. The move towards decentralized management and control of public finances has been followed...

Este artigo tem como objetivo estudar as condições necessárias à implantação de um mercado líquido de letras hipotecárias no Brasil. A consolidação do processo de estabilidade macroeconômica bem como a diminuição dos níveis e volatilidade das taxas de juros são condições...

This article tries to explain why it is necessary to continue to change the social security system. The so-called social security reform must be seen as a set of reforms: every step that is made, means that the system is moving to a situation of equilibrium. Some importants advances have already...