Publication in Revista do Serviço Público

The article “Rotatividade nos cargos de confiança da administração federal brasileira (1999-2013)“, co-authored with Felix Lopez and Karina Bugarin has just been published in the special issue on Bureaucracy and Public Policy of Revista do Serviço Público.

The Revista do Serviço Público is the oldest academic journal in the area of public policy in Brazil. Its first issue dates back to 1937. Click here to learn more about the journal (in Portuguese).

Research at the Brazilian Senate and in the media

The article “Moral & Incentives: An applied mechanism design and legal analysis of a bill that rewards citizens for denouncing corruption in Brazil”, co-authored with Tomás Bugarin, has been presented at the First Latin American Workshop in Law and Economics (First LAWLE) in Santiago, Chile, on November 21, 2014. A an earlier article, published at the Brasil, Economia e Governo“, was used as a main reference by Brazilian Federal Senator Randolfe Rodrigues to support his vote in favor of financial incentives to deter corruption.

Please read Senator Rodrigues vote (in Portuguese) here.

Furthermore, the Brazilian Law journal Carta Forense dedicated its October issue to the debate on financial rewards to corruption whistleblowing  and, once again, that earlier article was cited as a main reference.

Please read the complete article (in Portuguese) by Brazilian Prosecutor Eduardo Del-Campo here.

New working papers at the Economics and Politics Research Group

The working paper Regulação Ótima e a Atuação do Judiciário: Uma Aplicação de Teoria dos Jogos, co-authored with Fernando B. Meneguin, has just been published in the working papers series of the Economics and Politics Research Group.
Please check this and other working papers’ contents here.

Here are a few other working papers that I published there:

Number Date Publication
30/2013 10-16-2013 Ética & Incentivos: O que diz a Teoria Econômica sobre recompensar quem denuncia a corrupção? Mauricio Bugarin
27/2013 09-18-2013 Partidos, facções e a ocupação dos cargos de confiança no executivo federal (1999-2011), Felix Lopez, Mauricio Bugarin and Karina Bugarin
15/2013 06-26-2013 Incentivos à corrupção e à inação no serviço público: Uma análise de desenho de mecanismos, Maurício Bugarin and Fernando Meneguin
08/2013 06-12-2013 On the Optimality of Exclusion in Multidimensional Screening, Paulo Barelli, Suren Basov, Mauricio Bugarin and Ian King
05/2013 06-12-2013 Partisan Voluntary Transfers in a Fiscal Federation: New evidence from Brazil, Mauricio Bugarin and Ricardo Ubrig

 

Prêmio Tesouro Nacional e repercussão na mídia II

A pesquisa de Fábio Ávila de Castro, mestre em Economia do Setor Público sob minha orientação e membro do Economics and Politics Research Group, vencedor do segundo lugar no Prêmio Tesouro 2014, teve nova citação na mídia.

Com o título “Mais ricos respondem por 70% do IR, diz pesquisa”, o Valor Econômico refere-se à pesquisa em reportagem de 25/11/2014.

Leia a íntegra da reportagem aqui.

Leia o trabalho premiado aqui.

Prêmio Tesouro Nacional e repercussão na mídia

Fábio Ávila de Castro, mestre em Economia do Setor Público (ECO/UnB) e membro do Economics and Politics Research Group foi agraciado com o segundo lugar no Prêmio Tesouro Nacional com trabalho derivado de sua dissertação de Mestrado em Economia do Setor Público, por mim orientada.

O trabalho do Fábio foi ainda matéria de reportagem no jornal Valor Econômico em 13/11/2014.

Leia aqui a matéria.

Manifesto de Professores Universitários de Economia em prol da verdade na campanha eleitoral

MANIFESTO DE PROFESSORES UNIVERSITÁRIOS DE ECONOMIA
Este texto é um manifesto de um grupo de 164 professores universitários de Economia, ligados a diversas instituições no Brasil e no exterior. O nosso objetivo é desconstruir um dos inúmeros argumentos falaciosos ventilados na campanha eleitoral.

Leia o Manifesto completo aqui.

Veja as repercussões na mídia do Manifesto:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2014/10/1532618-economistas-e-professores-assinam-manifesto-contra-pt.shtml
http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/economia/em-manifesto-economistas-dizem-que-crise-alardeada-por-dilma-nao-existe
http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/mercados/economia/164-economistas-nao-ha-crise-internacional/
http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/eleicoes,economistas-entram-no-front-politico-por-dilma-e-aecio,1576818
http://epocanegocios.globo.com/Informacao/Acao/noticia/2014/10/economistas-se-dividem-entre-apoio-dilma-e-aecio.html
http://www.valor.com.br/eleicoes2014/3735676/departamentos-de-economia-entram-na-disputa-eleitoral
http://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/eleicoes/noticia/3635648/164-economistas-criam-manifesto-rebatem-dilma-nao-crise-internacional
http://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/professores-universitarios-fazem-manifesto-contra-gestao-da-economia-14249880

Paper on the Optimality of Exclusion published online in the Journal of Mathematical Economics

The article “The Robustness of Exclusion in Multi-dimensional Screening” has been published online in the Journal of Mathematical Economics’s homepage. It will appear in volume 54 (October, 2014) of the journal.

You can also access the article free of charge until November 15, 2014 directly here.

Please find below the article’s abstract:

We extend Armstrong’s (1996) result on exclusion in multi-dimensional screening models providing support for the view that the result holds true in a large class of models. We first relax some of the strong technical assumptions he imposed and provide alternative sufficient conditions for exclusion not relying on any form of convexity. We then proceed to show that exclusion obtains generically. We illustrate the results with examples and applications.

 

Paper published at Iberoamericana

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.

Interviewed and cited on Reelection by Zero Hora Newspaper

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

 

Paper published at Economics Bulletin

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.