cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964502
title: Revenue Sharing: A Problem of Federalism in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT This paper shows that the extension and inefficiency of federalism in Brazil is mostly associated with gaps in the competence to tax, as well as to distortions in the system of transfers to States and Local Governments, respectively known as State Participation Fund - SPF and Municipal Participation Fund - MPF. We discuss the concepts of fiscal federalism and decentralization and suggest changes that could contribute to a better distribution of resources and to fiscal discipline.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964506
title: Deregulation of Labor and Unemployment Markets in Advanced Capitalist Economies

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to discuss the relevance of micro and macroeconomic factors as the determinants of the present level of unemployment in some advanced capitalist economies. Through these results it will be possible to determine the importance of the conventional hypothesis that high levels of unemployment can be explained by the rigidities in the labor market as well as its policy implications.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964506.v1
title: Deregulation of Labor and Unemployment Markets in Advanced Capitalist Economies

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to discuss the relevance of micro and macroeconomic factors as the determinants of the present level of unemployment in some advanced capitalist economies. Through these results it will be possible to determine the importance of the conventional hypothesis that high levels of unemployment can be explained by the rigidities in the labor market as well as its policy implications.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964508.v1
title: Heterarchy: Exploiting Ambiguity and Organizing Diversity

description: ABSTRACT This paper explores the concept of heterarchy as an organizational form that is an alternative to hierarchies and markets. Heterarchies are characterized by lateral accountability and multiple organizing principles, or in different terms, by distributed intelligence and the organization of diversity. Empirical materials are drawn from the contemporary Hungarian economy where firms operate in an environment of institutional uncertainty. An analysis of the ownership structure of the largest 200 firms and the top 25 banks identifies distinctive network properties created by ties of inter-organizational ownership. Heterarchy contributes to flexibility; but the interweaving of multiple logics of justification poses new problems of accountability.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964508
title: Heterarchy: Exploiting Ambiguity and Organizing Diversity

description: ABSTRACT This paper explores the concept of heterarchy as an organizational form that is an alternative to hierarchies and markets. Heterarchies are characterized by lateral accountability and multiple organizing principles, or in different terms, by distributed intelligence and the organization of diversity. Empirical materials are drawn from the contemporary Hungarian economy where firms operate in an environment of institutional uncertainty. An analysis of the ownership structure of the largest 200 firms and the top 25 banks identifies distinctive network properties created by ties of inter-organizational ownership. Heterarchy contributes to flexibility; but the interweaving of multiple logics of justification poses new problems of accountability.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964509
title: Impacts of relations between Central Bank and State Banks in the post-1994 federative arrangement: Analysis in the light of the Banespa case

description: ABSTRACT This article indicates, through the case study of the Banespa federalization process, that there should be serious reservations concerning the current idea that there was centralization of power in the central government enforced by the federal executive in the 1990’s. The Banespa case is a critical case study as it demonstrates that the restructuring of the state banking system is not caused by federal government in the name of the maintenance of economic stabilization process. The authors argue that the agreement involving the situation of state banks was the fruit of a political bargaining between the state government and the federal government. Thus, the current restructuring of federative system can be better explained by a bargaining process between the branches of the government than by the restructuring enforced by the top people.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964509.v1
title: Impacts of relations between Central Bank and State Banks in the post-1994 federative arrangement: Analysis in the light of the Banespa case

description: ABSTRACT This article indicates, through the case study of the Banespa federalization process, that there should be serious reservations concerning the current idea that there was centralization of power in the central government enforced by the federal executive in the 1990’s. The Banespa case is a critical case study as it demonstrates that the restructuring of the state banking system is not caused by federal government in the name of the maintenance of economic stabilization process. The authors argue that the agreement involving the situation of state banks was the fruit of a political bargaining between the state government and the federal government. Thus, the current restructuring of federative system can be better explained by a bargaining process between the branches of the government than by the restructuring enforced by the top people.
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/e970872b3c9f3f2f98f686b5db792732
title: Jornada Basin LTER Cross-scale Interactions Study (CSIS) Block 13 meteorological station: 5-minute summary wind and air temperature data: 2013 - ongoing

description: This data package contains 5-minute air temperature and wind summary data from Jornada Basin LTER Cross Scale Interactions Study (CSIS) Block-13 met station. Average air temperature, wind speed, and wind direction are measured and calculated at an automated meteorological station connected to a 900 MHz spread spectrum wireless network. Wind speed is measured at 37cm, 75 cm, 150 cm, and 300 cm, wind direction at approximately 3m, and air temperature and relative humidity at approximate 2.5m. This is a subset of baseline weather data collected at the 15 Jornada Basin LTER CSIS study blocks, New Mexico. Measurements are aggregated at intervals of 5, 30, 60 minutes and daily, with precipitation additionally provided with 1 second aggregation during precipitation events. The met station variables measured include air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind direction, wind speed. Precipitation is not measured at Block 1 and Block 12 because of proximity to Block 2 and Block 13, respectively . This is an ONGOING dataset.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964512
title: Incompetence and Confidence Building behind 20 years of quasi-stagnation in Latin America

description: ABSTRACT Latin America remained almost stagnant in per capita terms in the last twenty years. The original causes are well known: the interrelated debt crisis and the fiscal crisis of the state. But why Latin American countries took so long to recover macroeconomic stability? Not only because fiscal adjustment and market oriented reforms were checked by interest groups, but also because, even when policymakers were free from political constraints, they nevertheless often made serious policy mistakes: mistakes that derived from technical or emotional incompetence, and from a subordinate “confidence building” strategy, that implied doing everything they supposed international agencies and financial markets would expect in order to achieve credit and credibility, instead of using their own judgment to make decisions and design required reforms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964512.v1
title: Incompetence and Confidence Building behind 20 years of quasi-stagnation in Latin America

description: ABSTRACT Latin America remained almost stagnant in per capita terms in the last twenty years. The original causes are well known: the interrelated debt crisis and the fiscal crisis of the state. But why Latin American countries took so long to recover macroeconomic stability? Not only because fiscal adjustment and market oriented reforms were checked by interest groups, but also because, even when policymakers were free from political constraints, they nevertheless often made serious policy mistakes: mistakes that derived from technical or emotional incompetence, and from a subordinate “confidence building” strategy, that implied doing everything they supposed international agencies and financial markets would expect in order to achieve credit and credibility, instead of using their own judgment to make decisions and design required reforms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964515
title: Business Governance in Brazil and South Africa: How Much Convergence to The Anglo-Saxon Model?

description: ABSTRACT The effect of globalization on national economic and political strategies is a central theme in policy analysis. At the core of this debate is business governance, interpreted in this paper in a wide sense as the laws, rules, and routines that govern large-scale corporations. Conventional wisdom has it that cross-national patterns of business governance are converging on the so-called Anglo-Saxon, capital-market driven model. In this paper I analyze recent changes in Brazil and South Africa, to conclude that models of business governance should be seen jointly with the institutional underpinnings of the economy. These include legal traditions that are unlikely to undergo rapid changes, other institutional features directly related to the ways in which first compete in the global economy, and the mechanisms through which social actors resist changes adverse to their interests.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19887379
title: Public policy and competitiveness in agriculture

description: ABSTRACT In the last three decades the agricultural sector of the less developed countries has lost competitiveness. The strong agricultural policy would explain the gain in the most developed countries. Their agricultural policy didn’t change, even when the government adopted a liberal strategy. Only European Union has demonstrated gains in competitiveness during all of the time. If we consider that at the beginning it showed the worst situation in terms of comparative advantage, we can conclude that its Common Agricultural Policy has caused big trade diversion and contributed to the reduction of the world economic efficiency.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964515.v1
title: Business Governance in Brazil and South Africa: How Much Convergence to The Anglo-Saxon Model?

description: ABSTRACT The effect of globalization on national economic and political strategies is a central theme in policy analysis. At the core of this debate is business governance, interpreted in this paper in a wide sense as the laws, rules, and routines that govern large-scale corporations. Conventional wisdom has it that cross-national patterns of business governance are converging on the so-called Anglo-Saxon, capital-market driven model. In this paper I analyze recent changes in Brazil and South Africa, to conclude that models of business governance should be seen jointly with the institutional underpinnings of the economy. These include legal traditions that are unlikely to undergo rapid changes, other institutional features directly related to the ways in which first compete in the global economy, and the mechanisms through which social actors resist changes adverse to their interests.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964517.v1
title: La Política de la Privatización de las Telecomunicaciones en Brasil

description: ABSTRACT The article discusses the politics of telecommunications’ privatization policies in Brazil. It argues that its features result from a thoroughly negotiated reform process, explained either by the institutional setting defining a particular veto points structure and by the predominant conceptions, among members of governing coalition, about the proper economic role of the State. In the first part, telecommunications sector’s conditions previous to privatization, the privatization policy and its results are rapidly presented. In the second part, the ideas about the economic role of the state underlying the debate about privatization of State-owned enterprises are summarized. In the third part, it discusses the political process through which the privatization of telecommunications came true, stressing the role of institutions and relevant actors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964517
title: La Política de la Privatización de las Telecomunicaciones en Brasil

description: ABSTRACT The article discusses the politics of telecommunications’ privatization policies in Brazil. It argues that its features result from a thoroughly negotiated reform process, explained either by the institutional setting defining a particular veto points structure and by the predominant conceptions, among members of governing coalition, about the proper economic role of the State. In the first part, telecommunications sector’s conditions previous to privatization, the privatization policy and its results are rapidly presented. In the second part, the ideas about the economic role of the state underlying the debate about privatization of State-owned enterprises are summarized. In the third part, it discusses the political process through which the privatization of telecommunications came true, stressing the role of institutions and relevant actors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964520
title: Is There an Ideological Link Between Neopopulism and Neoliberalism?

description: ABSTRACT This paper deals with the resurgence of populism in Latin America, and particularly with the ideological underpinnings of this phenomenon. Quite unexpectedly, populism has reemerged in several countries, such as Argentina and Peru, in the wake of drastic and all-encompassing neoliberal reforms. This novel situation calls for a reinterpretation of the populist phenomenon. The author contends that neoliberalism and neopopulism have established a strong link at the ideological level. In order to provide empirical evidence for this hypothesis, a corpus of Carlos Menem’s presidential discourse has been analyzed. The author concludes by suggesting that neoliberalism itself tends to stir up populist tendencies in society.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964520.v1
title: Is There an Ideological Link Between Neopopulism and Neoliberalism?

description: ABSTRACT This paper deals with the resurgence of populism in Latin America, and particularly with the ideological underpinnings of this phenomenon. Quite unexpectedly, populism has reemerged in several countries, such as Argentina and Peru, in the wake of drastic and all-encompassing neoliberal reforms. This novel situation calls for a reinterpretation of the populist phenomenon. The author contends that neoliberalism and neopopulism have established a strong link at the ideological level. In order to provide empirical evidence for this hypothesis, a corpus of Carlos Menem’s presidential discourse has been analyzed. The author concludes by suggesting that neoliberalism itself tends to stir up populist tendencies in society.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607803
title: Sexual coercion in a natural mandrill population

description: Each prediction (and the test for male aggression ~ rank) corresponds to a differrent table and R script. The legends of the tables are within the corresponding script.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607802
title: Sexual coercion in a natural mandrill population

description: Each prediction (and the test for male aggression ~ rank) corresponds to a differrent table and R script. The legends of the tables are within the corresponding script.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964521.v1
title: Social Currency Recognition Observations on inflation and the price stability in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT This article deals with two aspects of inflation: distributive conflict and the role of extra money. In this context, the paper discusses some characteristic features of inflation process in Brazil, difficulties of the reproduction of the money during the inflation process and what were the aspects that have been solved by the Real Plan. Finally, Plano Real’s prospects are addressed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964521
title: Social Currency Recognition Observations on inflation and the price stability in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT This article deals with two aspects of inflation: distributive conflict and the role of extra money. In this context, the paper discusses some characteristic features of inflation process in Brazil, difficulties of the reproduction of the money during the inflation process and what were the aspects that have been solved by the Real Plan. Finally, Plano Real’s prospects are addressed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964523
title: Minimum Wage, “Lighthouse Effect” and Poverty

description: ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the minimum wage policy in various segments of Brazilian labor markets. Our basic technique is to quantify corner solutions imposed by the minimum wage. These points are later used as a focalization mechanism in the simulation of upper bounds of the effects of the minimum wage on poverty measures. We highlight the importance of two unusual effects of the minimum wage, i) The high percentage of informal employees receiving exactly one minimum wage, this enhances the effects of the minimum on poverty, and ii) The use of the minimum wage as a numeraire in wage determination, in particular within the formal sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964523.v1
title: Minimum Wage, “Lighthouse Effect” and Poverty

description: ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the minimum wage policy in various segments of Brazilian labor markets. Our basic technique is to quantify corner solutions imposed by the minimum wage. These points are later used as a focalization mechanism in the simulation of upper bounds of the effects of the minimum wage on poverty measures. We highlight the importance of two unusual effects of the minimum wage, i) The high percentage of informal employees receiving exactly one minimum wage, this enhances the effects of the minimum on poverty, and ii) The use of the minimum wage as a numeraire in wage determination, in particular within the formal sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964524
title: Interest rate, liquidity preference and loan funds: a critical analysis of attempts to demonstrate equivalence between the theory of loan funds and preference for liquidity

description: ABSTRACT This article presents the attempts to demonstrate the equivalence between loanable funds and liquidity preference theories of interest rate done by Hicks, Lerner, Tsiang and Patinkin in order to show that these attempts were not succeed. That is so because these attempts had started from wrong conceptions about what are the issues under discussion in the debate between loanable funds and liquidity preference theories or because they had misrepresented one or another of both theories. In fact, the attempts done by Hicks and Patinkin disconsider the fact that what was essential in this debate was the mechanism by which saving and investment decisions have influence in the determination of interest rate. On the other hand, the attempts of Lerner and Tsiang misrepresent the relation between saving and investment and the finance motive of demand for money that is supposed by both theories.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964524.v1
title: Interest rate, liquidity preference and loan funds: a critical analysis of attempts to demonstrate equivalence between the theory of loan funds and preference for liquidity

description: ABSTRACT This article presents the attempts to demonstrate the equivalence between loanable funds and liquidity preference theories of interest rate done by Hicks, Lerner, Tsiang and Patinkin in order to show that these attempts were not succeed. That is so because these attempts had started from wrong conceptions about what are the issues under discussion in the debate between loanable funds and liquidity preference theories or because they had misrepresented one or another of both theories. In fact, the attempts done by Hicks and Patinkin disconsider the fact that what was essential in this debate was the mechanism by which saving and investment decisions have influence in the determination of interest rate. On the other hand, the attempts of Lerner and Tsiang misrepresent the relation between saving and investment and the finance motive of demand for money that is supposed by both theories.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607807
title: Electrophorus maldonadoi Zanfona

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607806
title: Electrophorus maldonadoi Zanfona

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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964526.v1
title: Brazilian industrial restructuring in the 90s. An interpretation

description: ABSTRACT The Brazilian industry has been deeply changed during the nineties although it is not easy to have a synthetic and encompassing view of the transformation occurred. ln order to have such a view one has to take into account the heavy influence of the years of high inflation (until mid 1994). Stabilization and overvaluation (of the real) in the years following the launching of the Real Plan were another decisive influence. The article argues that submitted to this set of conditioning events, industry in Brazil went through a (limited) catch up during the nineties. It also tries to show how progress has been mainly concentrated at the plane level - both in multinational and in domestic industrial firms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964526
title: Brazilian industrial restructuring in the 90s. An interpretation

description: ABSTRACT The Brazilian industry has been deeply changed during the nineties although it is not easy to have a synthetic and encompassing view of the transformation occurred. ln order to have such a view one has to take into account the heavy influence of the years of high inflation (until mid 1994). Stabilization and overvaluation (of the real) in the years following the launching of the Real Plan were another decisive influence. The article argues that submitted to this set of conditioning events, industry in Brazil went through a (limited) catch up during the nineties. It also tries to show how progress has been mainly concentrated at the plane level - both in multinational and in domestic industrial firms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19964527
title: Central banking reform and overcoming the moral hazard problem: the case of Brazil

description: ABSTRACT The implicit assumption that governments will bailout financial institutions under distress can generate negative incentives for the development of a sound financial system. This paper begins from the premise that these negative incentives, which create a situation of moral hazard, is essentially a political problem rather than a technical problem over generating correct institutional incentives. In the Brazilian case, we argue the current administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso was only able to significantly reduce its moral hazard problem in the financial sector through distancing its political relationship with two important political actors: the private financial sector and state governors. The ability of the government to eliminate the implicit assumption of an eventual Central Bank bailout over public and private commercial banks was only made possible through a series of political conditions, which includes the end of hyper-inflation under the Real Plan, that reduced the government’s dependence upon those two important political actors.