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The article “From the Diretas Já to the Passe Livre street demonstrations: 30 years of citizen-led institutional consolidation in Brazil”, co-authored with José Ricardo da Costa e Silva has been published at Iberoamericana.

The article reviews the 30-year period of institutional consolidation in Brazil that spans from the first “Diretas Já” street demonstration in March, 1983 to the “Passe Livre” protests in June, 2013.

Please check this and other recent publications here.

I was interviewed and cited at the September 21, 2014 issue of the Zero Hora newspaper on the issue of reelection.

You can read the complete article (in Portuguese) here, or at the Zero Hora Newspaper’s site:

http://zh.clicrbs.com.br/rs/noticias/eleicoes-2014/noticia/2014/09/conheca-os-pros-e-contras-da-reeleicao-4603139.html

The preliminary results paper “Consumer economic confidence and preference for redistribution: Main equilibrium results” co-authored with prof. Yasushi Hazama from the Institute of Developing Economies, IDE/JETRO-Japan, has been published at Economics Bulletin.

The article challenges the well-established result by Meltzer and Richard (1981) that suggests that poorer citizens tend to prefer bigger governments.

Please check the paper here.

The Journal Perspectives on Politics, published by the American Political Science Association just published  in its second issue of volume 12 (June 2014) a comparative review of the book The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America, in which Adriana Portugal (Tribunal de Contas do Distrito Federal), Sergio Sakurai (FEA-USP/Ribeirão Preto) and myself have a chapter.

The book analyses the delicate balance between politics and inequality in Latin America.

The review was written by Prof. Benjamin Goldfrank from Seton Hall University.

In his review, prof. Goldfrank also discusses prof. Stephen Klaplan’s book “Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America”. I recently published a review on that same book.

To read prof. Goldfrank’s comparative review on “The Great Gap”, please click here.

To read my review on “Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America”, please click here.

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The article “The Robustness of Exclusion in Multi-dimensional Screening” has been accepted on September, 2014 for publication at the Journal of Mathematical Economics.

The following papers have been accepted in August, 2014 for presentation at the LACEA-LAMES 2014 meetings in November, 2014:

“Benford Law and Audit of Public Works: An analysis of overpricing in Maracanã soccer arena’s renovation”. With Flávia Ceccato.

“Incentives for Corruption and Inertia in the Brazilian Civil Service: A Mechanism Design Approach”. Coauthor: Fernando Meneguin.

The following papers have been published in July, 2014:

“Turnover of Political Appointments in Brazil: 1999 to 2012 – Key indicators”, Journal of International Cooperation Studies (JICS) 22(1): 109-120, 2014. Coauthors: Felix Lopez, Karina Bugarin.

“How Latin American countries became fiscal conservatives: A book review of ‘Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America’ by Stephen Kaplan”, Journal of International Cooperation Studies (JICS) 22(1): 179-184, 2014.

The article “Rotatividade nos Cargos de Confiança da Administração Federal Brasileira (1999-2012) – Resultados Preliminares”  co-authored with Felix Lopes (IPEA) and Karina Bugarin (EPRG) has been published at the Boletim de Análise Político-Institucional, 5, 55-64.

The publication generated a series of media news. Please find below a few of them in Portuguese.

CORREIO BRAZILIENSE – ON LINE
Data: 29/05/2014 17:49
Cargos de confiança no serviço público, os DAS, cresceram 80% em 13 anos
http://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/politica-brasil-economia/33,65,33,3/2014/05/29/internas_economia,430045/cargos-de-confianca-no-servico-publico-os-das-cresceram-80-em-13-anos.shtml

JB – ON LINE – RJ
Data: 29/05/2014 17:17
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2014/05/29/cargos-de-confianca-com-maiores-salarios-cresceram-80-entre-1999-e-2012/

ESTADO DE MINAS – ON LINE
Data: 29/05/2014 16:44
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/economia/2014/05/29/internas_economia,534068/cargos-de-confianca-com-maiores-salarios-cresceram-80-entre-1999-e-2012.shtml

AGÊNCIA BRASIL
Data: 29/05/2014 16:34
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://cliente.linearclipping.com.br/unb/site/m012/noticia.asp?cd_noticia=11126363

TRIBUNA DA BAHIA – ON LINE ? BA
Data: 29/05/2014 18:59
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários crescem 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://www.tribunadabahia.com.br/2014/05/29/cargos-de-confianca-com-maiores-salarios-cresceram-80-entre-1999-2012

PORTAL AZ
Data: 29/05/2014 17:56
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://www.portalaz.com.br/noticia/geral/296076_cargos_de_confianca_com_maiores_salarios_cresceram_80_entre_1999_e_2012.html

CORREIO DO POVO.COM.BR
29/05/2014 17:07
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/Noticias/?Noticia=526749

TERRA
Data: 29/05/2014 17:04
Cargos de confiança cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://economia.terra.com.br/cargos-de-confianca-cresceram-80-entre-1999-e-2012,a2d4e307d8946410VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html

IN INVESTIMENTOS E NOTÍCIAS
Data: 29/05/2014 16:53
Cargos de confiança com maiores salários cresceram 80% entre 1999 e 2012
http://cliente.linearclipping.com.br/unb/site/m012/noticia.asp?cd_noticia=11126207

DCI – SP
Data: 30/05/2014
Governo aumenta em 80% os cargos públicos com comissão – INFORME ECONÔMICO
http://www.dci.com.br/politica-economica/governo-aumenta-em-80-os-cargos-publicos-com-comissao-id398610.html

Please check here the complete program of the Second Annual Meeting of the Economics and Politics Research Group, to be held at IPOL/UnB on June 7, 2014.

The paper “Moral & Incentives: An applied mechanism design analysis of a bill that rewards citizens for denouncing corruption in Brazil”, co-authored with Tomás Bugarin, was awarded a Robert D. Cooter Award’s Honorary Mention at the ALACDE conference in Guatemala on May 27, 2014.

Please check my detailed academic agenda here.