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Did government regulations lead to inflated credit ratings?
(INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2018)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations in 1975 gave select rating agencies increased market power by increasing both barriers to entry and the reliance on ratings for regulations. We test whether these ...
Scaling metabolic rate fluctuations
(NATL ACAD SCIENCES, 2007-06-26)
Complex ecological and economic systems show fluctuations in macroscopic quantities such as exchange rates, size of companies or populations that follow non-Gaussian tent-shaped probability distributions of growth rates ...
Reading the fine print: information disclosure in the Brazilian credit card market
(INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences, 2016)
Consumer credit regulations usually require that lenders disclose interest rates. However, in the absence of specific prominence requirements, lenders can conceal the interest rate in the fine print while still complying ...
A constitucionalidade da cobrança da taxa de serviço de coleta de lixo no município de Itapetininga
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrasilEspecialização em Gestão Pública MunicipalUTFPR, 2018-08-28)
This research aims to address of the constitutionality of the recycling tax of Itapetininga municipality, heartland of the São Paulo state, instituted by the Complementary Law n.º 13/2003, with the recent alterations brought ...
The impact of unilateral divorce law on murder
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2013)
This paper studies the effect of a law that enables the dissolution of marriage
without mutual consent of both spouses on the rates of murder in United
States. The analysis exploits the fact that states passed the law ...
The causal impacts of child labor law in Brazil: some preliminary findings
(Oxford Univ Press, 2017-03-01)
This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. We used a difference-in-differences (DD) approach to estimate ...
Contingent judicial deference: theory and application to usury laws
(2017)
Legislation that seems unreasonable to courts is less likely to be followed. Building on this premise, we propose a model and obtain two main results. First, the enactment of legislation prohibiting something raises the ...
Newton's law of cooling
(Wolfram Demonstration Project, 2016)
Newton's law of cooling
(Wolfram Demonstration Project, 2011)