Essa tese é constituída por três artigos: 'Tax Filing Choices for the Household', 'Optimal Tax for the Household: Collective and Unitary Approaches' e 'Vertical Differentiation and Heterogeneous Firms'.

2. We documented the within-host distribution of two vector species that differ in transmission efficiency, the leafhoppers Draeculacephala minerva and Graphocephala atropunctata, and which are free to move throughout ...

In 1991 Gary S. Becker presented A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social In uences on Price explaining why many successful restaurants, plays, sporting events, and other activities do not raise their ...

A basic assumption in mixed revealed preference (RP)/stated preference (SP) estimation is that both data sets represent basically the same phenomenon. Thus, we would expect individuals to show the same tastes regardless ...

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully used to identify individuals' preferences in conjoint analysis. One of the challenges of using SVMs in this context is to properly control for preference heterogeneity ...

This paper considers an economy populated by heterogeneous individuals in two respects: both parameters representing the subjective discount and the risk aversion rates are supposed to have a joint distribution. That is, ...

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully used to identify individuals' preferences in conjoint analysis. One of the challenges of using SVMs in this context is to properly control for preference heterogeneity ...