In this paper, the literature on state-owned banks (SOB) and on the determinants of high spread and profitability of Brazilian banks are briefly reviewed. Then the paper proceeds to present the hypothesis that the way state-owned banks have interacted with public-owned banks in the market is...

This book compares the successes and failures of the development and growth processes of Argentina and Brazil. It provides important insights into the different performances of these economies through a series of comparative essays written by Argentinian and Brazilian economists.

Brazil is a country of continental proportions whose gross domestic product is unevenly distributed among its various regions. The impact of general domestic economic policies has often been perceived as not being regionally neutral, but as reinforcing the geographic concentration of economic...

There are two observed trends in the structure of financial institutions. The first one is consolidation, which leads to inter-firm concentration and the second one is the regional dispersion of their output. Both phenomena are often seen as consequences of development in the technology of...

This paper deals with maintenance strategies with minimal repairs for single-unit repairable systems which are subject to competing and dependent failures due to degradation and traumatic shocks. The main aims are to study different approaches for making a minimal repair decision (i.e.,...

Think tanks became key political and economic actors during the twentieth century, creating and occupying an intellectual and political position between academic institutions, the state, civil society, and public debate on organization and management. Think tanks are especially active in setting...