Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which … productivity performance of the operators. Therefore, we elaborate a detailed analysis of the productivity performance of the …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …

Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …

Uncertainty in election outcomes generates politically induced regulatory risk. For monopoly regulation, political …

legislative regulation of outsourcing. Probably, qualified impact evaluations of this phenomenon should be made, before any …