Bearing in mind the market failures pointed out by the economic literature and following the international empirical evidence, and based on original micro data of the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry in the late 1990s, ...

Self-regulation (SR) is a common way of enforcing quality in markets (such as banking, financial services and several professions) and in a variety of public and private organizations. We provide experimental evidence of ...

Research on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative in Brazil has generated a voluminous literature that sheds important light on our understanding of the policy-making process in Brazil and the relationship ...

The present study has as objective to develop an integrated approach of quality attributes to the researches that study the food consumer behavior. From the review of literature, it was possible to identify three distinct ...

The solvation of six solvatochromic probes in a large number of solvents (33-68) was examined at 25 degrees C. The probes employed were the following: 2,6-diphenyl-4-(2,4,6-triphenylpyridinium-1-yl) phenolate (RB); ...

O objetivo deste estudo foi o de avaliar a geração de dejetos de suínos em granjas de alta tecnologia no estado de São Paulo, procurando caracterizá-los com relação aos potenciais de utilização: como fertilizante orgânico, ...

Previous research has focused on discrimination that occurs in formal markets. However, discrimination in informal markets remains understudied. We conducted a field experiment to examine whether street vendors in Bogotá, ...