cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004019
title: Piketty and the inequalities in capitalism: an analysis of “Capital in the 21st century”

description: Abstract This paper analyzes the book Capital in the 21st century, written by Thomas Piketty in 2013, on the issue of inequality in capitalism. To do so, it is divided into three sections. In the first, it presents the author’s main ideas on the evolution of inequality since the nineteenth century, and on the causes of its increase in the world from 1970 onwards, as well as its proposal to create a progressive annual tax on capital to reverse this trend. In the second section, it seeks to make an alternative theoretical interpretation to that of Piketty, in light of the transformations in capitalism and the changes that occurred in economic thought from that time on the causes of this increase in inequality. In the third, contributions of the study in terms of the analysis performed are discussed, as well as its limitations that prevent a better understanding of this issue.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004020
title: Student funding policies: an analysis of the impact of Fies on the completion time of higher education

description: Abstract This study evaluated the impact of Fies (Brazilian funding program for students) on the total time and delay of the completion of higher education students enrolled in presential courses at private institutions based on information from INEP between 2007 and 2017. The total time is the number of years that the student was enrolled, whereas the delay refers to the number of years that the student took to complete the course beyond the minimum period of completion. The impact of Fies on the total time estimated by propensity score was around 4 months. The results of the delay variable also suggested a positive impact, but less intense and only significant in the first stage of the program, that is, from 2000 to 2009. Estimates were also made using the Lewbel method (2012), in an attempt to deal with the possible bias of unobservable characteristics that influence the individual decision to apply for Fies. The analysis showed a possible overestimation of the results when the unobserved characteristics of the students are not considered.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004020.v1
title: Student funding policies: an analysis of the impact of Fies on the completion time of higher education

description: Abstract This study evaluated the impact of Fies (Brazilian funding program for students) on the total time and delay of the completion of higher education students enrolled in presential courses at private institutions based on information from INEP between 2007 and 2017. The total time is the number of years that the student was enrolled, whereas the delay refers to the number of years that the student took to complete the course beyond the minimum period of completion. The impact of Fies on the total time estimated by propensity score was around 4 months. The results of the delay variable also suggested a positive impact, but less intense and only significant in the first stage of the program, that is, from 2000 to 2009. Estimates were also made using the Lewbel method (2012), in an attempt to deal with the possible bias of unobservable characteristics that influence the individual decision to apply for Fies. The analysis showed a possible overestimation of the results when the unobserved characteristics of the students are not considered.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20003927
title: Sample 11868 - Read2 - Metagenomic Reads Pescadero

description: Rock 11868. Metagenomic sequencing from Pescadero Basin. Hydrothermal environment. Reads 1
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20003927.v1
title: Sample 11868 - Read2 - Metagenomic Reads Pescadero

description: Rock 11868. Metagenomic sequencing from Pescadero Basin. Hydrothermal environment. Reads 1
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004022
title: State hydrocarbon policy and mode of accumulation in Argentina during the “postconvertibility” regime (2002-2011)

description: Abstract In the period 2002-2011, there was a widening gap between the expansive dynamics of capital accumulation and the declining performance of the petroleum industry in Argentina. By the end of 2011, there was major imbalance in the oil and gas sector in both external trade and the state budget. This paper analyzes the hydrocarbon policies implemented by the federal government during the period mentioned, in terms of how they correlate with the foundations and weaknesses of the “postconvertibility” regime. To fulfill this objective, we triangulate different methods and techniques of data collection and analysis. Among other results, the article contributes to understanding the present dilemmas related to state intervention in the sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004022.v1
title: State hydrocarbon policy and mode of accumulation in Argentina during the “postconvertibility” regime (2002-2011)

description: Abstract In the period 2002-2011, there was a widening gap between the expansive dynamics of capital accumulation and the declining performance of the petroleum industry in Argentina. By the end of 2011, there was major imbalance in the oil and gas sector in both external trade and the state budget. This paper analyzes the hydrocarbon policies implemented by the federal government during the period mentioned, in terms of how they correlate with the foundations and weaknesses of the “postconvertibility” regime. To fulfill this objective, we triangulate different methods and techniques of data collection and analysis. Among other results, the article contributes to understanding the present dilemmas related to state intervention in the sector.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004026.v1
title: Brazilian underdevelopment according to Celso Furtado: a “radiograph” of the income distribution structure in the country

description: Abstract Brazilian underdevelopment, as qualified by Celso Furtado, shows a notably distributive nature derived from the close relationship between external cultural dependence and the internal exploitation of workers. Despite the fact that this diagnosis dates back decades, nuances of the distributive structure in recent times highlight the current relevance of this interpretation, in such a way that the analysis of information mapped in a comprehensive “radiograph” of Brazilian income distribution was the objective of this work. It aimed at answering if what has happened, since Celso Furtado's last study, would have changed the most fundamental conditions described by him. In general, the information analyzed here, according to Furtado, suggested the persistence of Brazilian underdevelopment, as assessed based on the structural socio-economic asymmetries of which it is still composed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004026
title: Brazilian underdevelopment according to Celso Furtado: a “radiograph” of the income distribution structure in the country

description: Abstract Brazilian underdevelopment, as qualified by Celso Furtado, shows a notably distributive nature derived from the close relationship between external cultural dependence and the internal exploitation of workers. Despite the fact that this diagnosis dates back decades, nuances of the distributive structure in recent times highlight the current relevance of this interpretation, in such a way that the analysis of information mapped in a comprehensive “radiograph” of Brazilian income distribution was the objective of this work. It aimed at answering if what has happened, since Celso Furtado's last study, would have changed the most fundamental conditions described by him. In general, the information analyzed here, according to Furtado, suggested the persistence of Brazilian underdevelopment, as assessed based on the structural socio-economic asymmetries of which it is still composed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004031
title: The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis in the theories of economic growth: a maze of theoretical inconsistencies

description: Abstract The purpose of this study is to show that, in both the Hansen and Summers versions, the secular stagnation hypothesis is based on questionable theoretical foundations that seem inconsistent both with the neoclassical approach to growth and with the heterodox models of demand-led growth. We build on F. Petri´s recent critique of the incoherent use of the neoclassical investment function in situations with persistent labor unemployment, and show that the recent debate is directly connected with the old debate about the two problems raised by R. Harrod. The analysis allows us to understand some questions related to the current debate, such as the Gordon-Summers controversy on whether the causes of the recent stagnation tendencies in developed countries should be attributed to supply or demand factors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004031.v1
title: The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis in the theories of economic growth: a maze of theoretical inconsistencies

description: Abstract The purpose of this study is to show that, in both the Hansen and Summers versions, the secular stagnation hypothesis is based on questionable theoretical foundations that seem inconsistent both with the neoclassical approach to growth and with the heterodox models of demand-led growth. We build on F. Petri´s recent critique of the incoherent use of the neoclassical investment function in situations with persistent labor unemployment, and show that the recent debate is directly connected with the old debate about the two problems raised by R. Harrod. The analysis allows us to understand some questions related to the current debate, such as the Gordon-Summers controversy on whether the causes of the recent stagnation tendencies in developed countries should be attributed to supply or demand factors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004033
title: Economic freedom and national innovation: evidence for input and the production of innovation considering the development of countries

description: Abstract The aim of this study is to verify the effect of economic freedom on national innovation. Linear regression models were used, as well as the DP2 technique to synthesize the indicators of the Global Innovation Index and the Index of Economic Freedom in the period from 2013 to 2018. The sample covers 86 to 105 countries, according to each year analyzed. The relations were verified in light of the Institutional Economic Theory and the countries were analyzed according to the level of economic development. National innovation is made up of inputs and the production of innovation, covering factors that are necessary to develop innovation in a country. Innovation inputs include issues of human capital and research, institutions, infrastructure, market and business, all at a national level. The production of innovation is the output of knowledge and technology and creative results. The results show that economic freedom positively assists national innovation and innovation input, more specifically in developing countries. Regarding the production of innovation, the relationship is greater for developed countries. Economic freedom can promote the determinants that lead to input or to the production of innovation, which will depend on the stage of development that the country is in. National innovation reacts in response to the institutions rooted in the country in question.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004033.v1
title: Economic freedom and national innovation: evidence for input and the production of innovation considering the development of countries

description: Abstract The aim of this study is to verify the effect of economic freedom on national innovation. Linear regression models were used, as well as the DP2 technique to synthesize the indicators of the Global Innovation Index and the Index of Economic Freedom in the period from 2013 to 2018. The sample covers 86 to 105 countries, according to each year analyzed. The relations were verified in light of the Institutional Economic Theory and the countries were analyzed according to the level of economic development. National innovation is made up of inputs and the production of innovation, covering factors that are necessary to develop innovation in a country. Innovation inputs include issues of human capital and research, institutions, infrastructure, market and business, all at a national level. The production of innovation is the output of knowledge and technology and creative results. The results show that economic freedom positively assists national innovation and innovation input, more specifically in developing countries. Regarding the production of innovation, the relationship is greater for developed countries. Economic freedom can promote the determinants that lead to input or to the production of innovation, which will depend on the stage of development that the country is in. National innovation reacts in response to the institutions rooted in the country in question.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004036
title: Determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian firms

description: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian innovative firms. The paper investigates the determinants of cooperation in innovation considering the types of partners, as well as the determinants of cooperation with the foreign market and with Brazilian institutions, considering the types of partners. Based on data from PINTEC 2011 probabilistic models were estimated considering a significant sample of innovative Brazilian firms. The results suggest that R&D expenditure, firms’ characteristics, government support, the main sources of information and obstacles to innovation explain the cooperation in innovation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004036.v1
title: Determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian firms

description: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of cooperation in innovation in Brazilian innovative firms. The paper investigates the determinants of cooperation in innovation considering the types of partners, as well as the determinants of cooperation with the foreign market and with Brazilian institutions, considering the types of partners. Based on data from PINTEC 2011 probabilistic models were estimated considering a significant sample of innovative Brazilian firms. The results suggest that R&D expenditure, firms’ characteristics, government support, the main sources of information and obstacles to innovation explain the cooperation in innovation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004038.v1
title: Negative interest rates and inverted yield curves: an interpretation based on Liquidity Preference Theory

description: Abstract Unusual interest rate behavior has become increasingly frequent in developed economies. Even though intuitively unlikely, government bond yields in negative territory are found in most European countries, and inverted yield curves for Treasury bonds in the United States occurred during some months. This paper presents the influence of conventional and non-conventional monetary policy instruments over the previously mentioned phenomena, and an interpretation based on the Liquidity Preference Theory proposed by Keynes. This interpretation explains, based on agents’ behavior, why public and private asset purchase programs, yield curve control and communication based on forward guidance used by central banks could persist and influence financial markets. This situation has enabled the occurrence of atypical phenomena regarding interest rates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004038
title: Negative interest rates and inverted yield curves: an interpretation based on Liquidity Preference Theory

description: Abstract Unusual interest rate behavior has become increasingly frequent in developed economies. Even though intuitively unlikely, government bond yields in negative territory are found in most European countries, and inverted yield curves for Treasury bonds in the United States occurred during some months. This paper presents the influence of conventional and non-conventional monetary policy instruments over the previously mentioned phenomena, and an interpretation based on the Liquidity Preference Theory proposed by Keynes. This interpretation explains, based on agents’ behavior, why public and private asset purchase programs, yield curve control and communication based on forward guidance used by central banks could persist and influence financial markets. This situation has enabled the occurrence of atypical phenomena regarding interest rates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004039
title: Industrial policy and pharmaceutical trade networks: cases in Brazil, Ireland and India from 1995 to 2015

description: Abstract The level of industrial development of a nation can be inferred by the technological and productive domain of the country and its local productive structure. These elements are also important to determine the competitiveness of nations and their participation in international trade. The article empirically assesses how the development of the pharmaceutical industry is associated with changes in the patterns of specialization in the global medicines trade network to investigate the co-evolution of such dimensions in view of the industrial policy framework of three different countries: Ireland, India, and Brazil. The main results, obtained via the Network Analysis method, show that India and Ireland, unlike Brazil, have adopted more consistent and long-term policies, essential for the success of a sector development strategy, measured by their roles in the world trade network of medicines. Furthermore, the results make it clear that trade opening is not a sufficient condition for a country to reach higher levels of competitiveness.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004039.v1
title: Industrial policy and pharmaceutical trade networks: cases in Brazil, Ireland and India from 1995 to 2015

description: Abstract The level of industrial development of a nation can be inferred by the technological and productive domain of the country and its local productive structure. These elements are also important to determine the competitiveness of nations and their participation in international trade. The article empirically assesses how the development of the pharmaceutical industry is associated with changes in the patterns of specialization in the global medicines trade network to investigate the co-evolution of such dimensions in view of the industrial policy framework of three different countries: Ireland, India, and Brazil. The main results, obtained via the Network Analysis method, show that India and Ireland, unlike Brazil, have adopted more consistent and long-term policies, essential for the success of a sector development strategy, measured by their roles in the world trade network of medicines. Furthermore, the results make it clear that trade opening is not a sufficient condition for a country to reach higher levels of competitiveness.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004041
title: Evaluating the impact of federal government health financing on the effectiveness of primary care: evidence for Brazil through hospital admissions

description: Abstract The objective of this work is to verify, through causal inference, if positive shocks in federal government funding in primary health care negatively affect the probability of use (hospitalization) of the hospital system due to improvements in collective health. Data from Brazil, which, with regard to health policies, has a basic health care system that is universal, public and free, was used. The results largely suggest that greater federal funding of primary care generated higher averages for this indicator in small municipalities in the country. This result indicates that this financing resulted in a significant effect of overflows in hospitalizations in the country’s hospital system, through greater access to these services by the population. However, the findings also show an ineffectiveness of these services to reduce the transfer of individuals to medium and high complexity care through preventive health care.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004041.v1
title: Evaluating the impact of federal government health financing on the effectiveness of primary care: evidence for Brazil through hospital admissions

description: Abstract The objective of this work is to verify, through causal inference, if positive shocks in federal government funding in primary health care negatively affect the probability of use (hospitalization) of the hospital system due to improvements in collective health. Data from Brazil, which, with regard to health policies, has a basic health care system that is universal, public and free, was used. The results largely suggest that greater federal funding of primary care generated higher averages for this indicator in small municipalities in the country. This result indicates that this financing resulted in a significant effect of overflows in hospitalizations in the country’s hospital system, through greater access to these services by the population. However, the findings also show an ineffectiveness of these services to reduce the transfer of individuals to medium and high complexity care through preventive health care.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004044
title: Hidden sides of the capitalist tax structure

description: Abstract This article, the result of a master's thesis research, presents data from some of the main research on inequality, concentration (of income and capital) and tax structures in the world, in Latin America and, in more detail, in Brazil. It verifies and presents evidence that in Brazil salaried workers are proportionally more heavily taxed than mega-entrepreneurs, contradicting theories that adhere to State neutrality. Additionally, it presents some of the negative effects of the tax structure and income concentration to the detriment of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). Finally, it lists different tax mechanisms intrinsic to the Brazilian tax system (STB) at the effective disposal, mainly of mega-entrepreneurs and large corporations, highlighting the real possibility of transferring the tax burden to the disadvantage of salaried workers and the reduction of profits of SMEs. This leads to questions on the limits of taxation, as a remedy prescribed for the correction of social injustices, at the heart of the capitalist system.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20004044.v1
title: Hidden sides of the capitalist tax structure

description: Abstract This article, the result of a master's thesis research, presents data from some of the main research on inequality, concentration (of income and capital) and tax structures in the world, in Latin America and, in more detail, in Brazil. It verifies and presents evidence that in Brazil salaried workers are proportionally more heavily taxed than mega-entrepreneurs, contradicting theories that adhere to State neutrality. Additionally, it presents some of the negative effects of the tax structure and income concentration to the detriment of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). Finally, it lists different tax mechanisms intrinsic to the Brazilian tax system (STB) at the effective disposal, mainly of mega-entrepreneurs and large corporations, highlighting the real possibility of transferring the tax burden to the disadvantage of salaried workers and the reduction of profits of SMEs. This leads to questions on the limits of taxation, as a remedy prescribed for the correction of social injustices, at the heart of the capitalist system.