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...

In this article we present a method of pricing maximum and minimum fares of leased public utilities. The theoretical ground of such method is the investment valuation theory, which allows us to price financial and real assets. The suggested method applies to leased public transport services...

This paper aims to investigate the patterns of interaction between national and multinational corporations located in Brazil and universities/public research institutes (PRIs) in that country. To this end, we used a database involving 319 questionnaires answered by those responsible either for...