This study approaches the survival ability of firms in the North region of Portugal from 1985 to 2007, allowing regional and national comparisons through the application of non-parametric and semi-parametric methods. This analysis is based on the creation of a specific entrepreneurship database,...

Over the last decades, the challenge of giving support to national economic growth process has become an undisputed issue. Since the second term of the Lula government, the theme of resumption of investment was imposed. In particular, the State of Rio de Janeiro benefited from a cycle of large...

A decree from 2000 - which created the Brazilian Civil Aviation Council (Conac) -, joint with a law from 2005 - which created the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) - rule that the former proposes to the President of the Republic a regulatory benchmark for the airport industry. The recent...

O período de tempo no qual uma empresa opera em um determinado mercado indica seu histórico de desempenho nos negócios. As evidências disponíveis sugerem que empresas maduras apresentam menores probabilidades de saída de mercado e de falência. A relação entre idade das empresas e...

One of the most influential evolutionary model in Nelson and Winter's book is the one dealing with industrial dynamics (chapter 12). From that model came out meaningful insights about market structure and technological change relationship. Despite the improvements made by evolutionary models...

The promotion of public policy development, focusing on results, needs indicators for monitoring its effectiveness. The indices of municipal development, synthetic indices that capture certain aspects of local development, serve as reference for the diagnosis and monitoring of the results of the...

O período de tempo no qual uma empresa opera em um determinado mercado indica seu histórico de desempenho nos negócios. As evidências disponíveis sugerem que empresas maduras apresentam menores probabilidades de saída de mercado e de falência. A relação entre idade das empresas e...

Using microdata of Brazilian firms from a longitudinal matched employee-employer data set (Rais) in the period from 1993 to 2013, this paper confirms that the middle part of the size distribution is "missing" in Brazil and apparently this feature is more intense than in other countries for which...

Since the threshold of the 21st century, the issue of productivity began to occupy a central role in economic debate. From that point, many studies concerning the Brazilian economy have been made, and the unanimous conclusion was that the country has been unable to increase the average...