This paper developed and applied the Stochastic Frontier Geographically Weighted (SFGW) to access the tax efficiency of the Brazilian states. The estimated coefficients obtained by this method were close to those from the traditional Stochastic Frontier estimation allowing, however, the...

This paper tried to evaluate the increasing of the federative public spending associated with the creation of a new State within the Brazilian Federation. The estimates pointed out that each new State increases the federative expenditure by R$ 832 millions. It was also estimated that Brazilian...

This paper aims at contributing to the decision-making regarding the allocation of public resources under the Federal Legislative Power. The focus of the paper was to construct criteria that could help elect the municipal legislative council in each micro-region that has the greatest power of...

This paper attempts to examine the evolution of the financial conditions of Brazilian States ten years after the re-structuring of their financial debt. Re-structuring the financial debt was implemented according to a fiscal adjustment program which established targets to be periodically...

Although it has an acceptance on the multidimensional nature of well-being, an unequivocal definition of the term does not exist. By the one hand utilitarian perspective prioritizes of the accumulation process and restricts the relation between well-being and the qualitative aspects of the...

This study analyzes the recent transformations in the consumption profile of audiovisual media services, transformations mainly marked by the intensive use of the internet. Such a phenomenon has reconfigured the strategies adopted by providers of traditional linear audiovisual media services, in...

In this paper, we characterize the domestic cargo flows for imports and exports, from and towards the Brazilian ports. Based on this characterization, it is possible to calculate basic competitiveness indicators, for different cargo types. We also present a discussion on minimum efficient scales...

In this paper, we analyze the structure of geographic markets for the port sector in Brazil, identifying influence areas for its main ports. We employed spatial clustering algorithms, based on foreign trade data. We observed that the geographic factor seems to be extremely important in...

In this paper, we present some models to analyze the impacts of surface transportation logistic costs on importers and exporters decisions on which ports to choose for foreign trade operations. We employed a technique based on fractional split distributions, in which the dependent variable...