"We sold a million units": the role of advertising past-sales

In a market where past-sales embed information about consumers’ tastes (quality), we analyze the seller’s incentives to invest in a costly advertising campaign to report them under two informational assumptions. In the …rst scenario, a pooling equilibrium with past-sales advertising is derived. Information revelation only occurs when the seller bene…ciates from the herding behaviour that the advertising campaign induces on the part of consumers. In the second informational regime, a separating equilibrium with past-sales advertising is computed. Information revelation always happens, either through prices or through costly advertisements.

O papel do capital financeiro na emergência do modo de produção capitalista no Brasil (1888-1913): análise da economia política brasileira

Discutir o problema do capital financeiro na formação dos estágios iniciais do modo capitalista de produção no Brasil: eis a problemática que esta monografia se dispõe a enfocar. Discutir o capital financeiro é, paralelamente, discutir o Estado e o seu controle pelos diversos segmentos sociais que, frequentemente, possuem interesses antagônicos.