Fleet managers state that fuel consumption accounts for 50% of the operating costs of their cargo and passenger vehicle fleets. Aiming to reduce these costs, transport companies contract telematics services to track their ...

This monograph seeks to demonstrate that with the technological developments and competition from operators have a serious consequence on the collection of ICMS - Tax on Goods and Services. In France, the company launched ...

Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption actually has caused several environmental imbalances. The urgency of change these standards promotes research, debates and national and international environmental ...

In the last decades, cities have increased the number of activities and services that depends on an efficient and reliable electricity service. In particular, households have had a sustained increase of electricity consumption ...

This dissertation consists of two independent essays that have the same ultimate goal: to influence consumers to make decisions that are aligned with the objectives of a business or policy maker. In the following two ...

The publication of the sixty-first edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, corresponding to 2008-2009, comes at a critical point in the economic development of the Latin American and Caribbean ...

O presente trabalho dedica-se ao estudo da hipervulnerabilidade do consumidor idoso diante das operadoras de planos privados de assistência à saúde. Mais especificamente, busca analisar se a aplicação da teoria do diálogo ...