Utilizando sistemas de equações simultâneas de oferta e demanda, com variáveis endógenas, analisou-se o possível impacto econômico sobre o PIB e o PIB per capita advindo do aumento da difusão do acesso à internet em banda larga no Brasil. Empregaram-se dados, desagregados por Unidades...

Aplicando-se modelos econométricos sobre dados em painel, analisou-se o possível relacionamento entre aumento da densidade de acessos de banda larga por habitantes no Brasil e o crescimento do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) e PIB per capita. Utilizaram-se dados, desagregados por Unidades da...

Neste trabalho, por meio de análise de regressão de dados em cross-section, foram estudados alguns fatores referentes ao desenvolvimento econômico e humano que afetam a penetração do serviço de acesso à internet em banda larga nos municípios brasileiros. Como indicadores econômicos,...

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than...

This study elaborates a psychographics profile of the tourists visiting the Itaúnas State Park (Parque Estadual de Itaúnas), Espirito Santo, Brazil, and estimates the recreative use economic value for the Park, using a psychographics approach of the Travel Cost Method (TCM). It was observed...

Violence in Brazil is well known to be one of the biggest problems nowadays affecting the society. This problem incurs in several economic costs, in addition to all kinds of immeasurable costs due to life losses. For the economic costs, we can mention, for example, medical treatment costs,...

This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expectedrevenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It providesand compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observeddemands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...

This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expected revenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It provides and compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observed demands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...

The Brazilian public budget in health was R$ 53 bilion in 2003. What is the cost of treatment with the victims of the violence in Brazil? In this article we want answering this question. Two limitations in the available data hinder the calculation of the cost of the public health system with the...