Mauricio Bugarin's Blog

The article “A Emenda Constitucional dos Precatórios: Histórico, Incentivos e Leilões de Deságio”, on court-ordered debt payments in Brazil, has been accepted for publication at Estudos Econômicos. It is the result of collaborative work with Fernando Meneguin from the Brazilian Senate.

Estudos Econômicos is a top-ranked academic journal in Economic Theory and Applications in Brazil, created in 1971 and published four times a year by the Department of Economics of the School of Economics, Business and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo.

The general interest article “O que é desenho de mecanismos e qual a importância de seu estudo?” was published today in the Economics blog “Brasil Economia e Governo”.

The article, in Portuguese,  introduces to the nonacademic reader the main concepts and ideas of the Mechanism Design area of research, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize.

Brasil Economia e Governo is an economics and government blog that was selected the best economics & finance blog in Brazil in 2011 according to Top Blog. Its goal it to offer didactic analyses of economic questions that are highly relevant to Brazilian development, most especially those that depend on the government action.

I will present the paper “Partisan Voluntary Transfers in a Fiscal Federation: New Evidence from Brazil.” this afternoon at 4pm at LAPCIPP, Political science Department, University of Brasilia. The presentation is part of LAPCIPP seminars program and will be held at the FA meeting room (sala da reunões da FA). The paper “Legisladores, Captadores a Assistencialistas: A Representação Política no Nível Local”, by Acir Almeida and Felix Lopez will also be discussed. If you wish to attend the event, you are welcome!

The article “Inequality and the Cost of Electoral Campaigns: The Cases of Brazil and Japan”  was accepted for presentation at the 2012 LACEA-LAMES meetings, to be held in Lima, Peru, in November 2012.

The LACEA-LAMES 2012 site is: http://www.lacealames2012.pe

Also, please check the page CURRENT RESEARCH & WORKING PAPERS for a list of 5 papers I am working on recently with their corresponding abstracts.

The Americas Quarterly just published a 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 Americas Quarterly is published by Americas Society and the Council of the Americas.

Please read the review at: http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3843#3829

Fernando Meneguin (Brazilian Federal Senate) and I were just awarded the Robert D. Cooter  ALACDE Award for Scholarship in Law and Economics. The award was announced during the 2012 ALACDE meeting in Peru and was handed to Fernando by prof. Cooter himself!

The  site of ALACDE is:  http://www.alacde.org/index.htm

Welcome to my blog! This is my very first post. I am starting this blog to keep you updated on my academic and teaching activities. You will find here information about my current research, working papers, publication, academic agenda, organization and participation in international and national events, teaching activities and academic advising activities.

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