Mauricio Bugarin's Blog

The Economics Department of Yokohama National University (YNU), Japan, “is the world’s unique and single institution that provides for International Input Output DB on Asia that cover the recent years up to 2012!” Prof. Keiichi Yamazaki, YNU.

The database is freely available at the Research Center for Economic and Social Statistics in Asia (ReCESSA). Please click here to access ReCESSA.

The Center publishes a free-access working paper series. Please click here to view the entire list of working papers.

I will present the research “Economic confidence and preference for redistribution: The security & income trade-off and an application to Brazilian 2014 street protests” at the Catholic University of Brasilia (Campus Avançado Asa Norte – SGAN 916 Módulo B Avenida W5) room B108,  this Friday, March 27 at 9am. All are welcome!

Seminário
O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia tem a satisfação de convidar V.Sª.  para o seminário acadêmico, que será realizado no dia 27 de março (sexta – feira)  às 9h,  na sala B108, com o seguinte tema:

“Economic confidence and preference for redistribution: The security & income trade-off and an application to Brazilian 2014 street protests”.

Prof. Dr. Mauricio Bugarin
Universidade de Brasília-UnB

The research “Aplicações da Lei Newcomb-Benford às Planilhas de Obras Públicas” co-authored with Flávia Ceccato was awarded a Honorary Mention at the 7th Secretary of the Federal Budget Award.

The article “Lei de Benford e Auditoria de Obras Públicas: Uma Análise de Sobrepreço na Reforma do Maracanã” has been published in Revista do TCU.

“The Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (Tribunal de Contas da União – TCU) audits the accounts of administrators and other persons responsible for federal public funds, assets, and other valuables, as well as the accounts of any person who may cause loss, misapplication, or other irregularities that may cause losses to the public treasury. Such administrative and judicative authority, among others, is provisioned in art. 71 of the Brazilian Constitution. “

The award-winning research “On the Institutional Incentives Faced by Brazilian Civil Servants” co-authored with Fernando Meneguin has been published in Latin American Studies-LA Ronshu.

The award winning research “Problemas de Seleção Adversa e Perigo Moral nos Procedimentos de Apuração de Descumprimento de Obrigações na Anatel: identificação teórica, evidência estatística e um mecanismo para a sua superação”, on the problems of adverse selection and moral hazard in telecom regulation in Brazil, co-authored with Nathalia A. de Souza, has been published as a book chapter in 2014.

Please click here to get access to the publication.

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).

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.

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:

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.