This paper has the goal of analysing the locational aspects of german investment in Portugal, focusing on the relations between territories and different types of economic activities. Our main focus of analysis will be two surveys made to german companies in Portugal by the Portuguese-German...

The present research examines the hole of the major national companies in the process of Brazilian and South American integration and productive development, under the aspects of market factors of production (land, labor, capital and technology), in the direct/indirect organization of the...

The present research examines the hole of the major national companies in the process of Brazilian and South American integration and productive development, under the aspects of market factors of production (land, labor, capital and technology), in the direct/indirect organization of the...

The analysis was based in 240 questionnaires answered by students of economics at University of Brasília. Using them, it was tried to make a whole description of the characteristics of these alumni and, in a second moment, to estimate econometric models to identify the causes of academic...

Two major changes in Brazilian legislation during the 1990s reshaped the local pharmaceutical industry: the ratification of the TRIPS agreement including a provision for pipeline inventions in 1996, and a Generic Drug Act in 1999, which introduced bioequivalence tests and facilitated generic...

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...

Although it is a little known fact the Convention no 158 of International Labor Organization (ILO) which prohibits the dismissal of an employee without cause ruled in Brazil from 10 April to 20 November 1996 and thereby providing an excellent opportunity to evaluate the effect of regulation on...

Political economy literature considers fiscal federalism as a mechanism to refrain the growth of government. However, an unbalanced federalism may induce government growth. This paper studies the Brazilian case, in which the municipalities are beneficiaries of a common pool of federal and state...

By considering the São Paulo state municipalities, the present study develops an econometric model – panel logit – to analyze the political and fiscal determinants of budgetary surpluses / budgetary deficits during the 1989 – 2001 period. According to the obtained results, the fiscal...