Crescimento e distribuição de renda

The present dissertation has as main purpose to discuss the relations between growth and income distribution. First, I show how c1assical, neoclassical and keynesian tradicional approaches point to the existence of a trade-off between growth and income distribution. After that, three different models were presented based on Bresser Pereira (1986), Lucas (1988), and Dutt (1984,1987) and Amadeo (1986). These models allow the conc1usion that there is not a necessary trade-offbetween growth and income distribution, We also present a hyphothesis that this relation depends on the levei of economic development of a country. In the ealier stages of development, the trade-off exists, but, since the country reaches more advanced stages of development, this relation changes and the presence of a high income concentration pattern becomes an adicional barrier to development

Serviços bancários: qualidade percebida por clientes de alta renda no mercado brasileiro

O objetivo central deste trabalho é investigar a qualidade percebida pelos clientes em relação a serviços bancários, bem como identificar as lacunas em relação às expectativas dos clientes. Para tanto, foi selecionado o público de alta renda já que, de acordo com a estratégia de alocação de recursos dos bancos atuantes hoje no território brasileiro, este é o segmento para quem são dirigidos os maiores esforços e melhores recursos destas instituições. As análises foram baseadas em um questionário desenvolvido com o objetivo de abranger as diferentes e diversas dimensões dos modelos teóricos de Grönroos (1984), Parasuraman (1988) e Brogowicz (1990) a fim de identificar quais seriam as principais necessidades de aporte de qualidade sob a ótica destes consumidores de serviços financeiros.

Estimation of random coefficients logit demand models: an application to the Brazilian fixed income fund market

Estimation of demand and supply in differentiated products markets is a central issue in Empirical Industrial Organization and has been used to study the effects of taxes, merges, introduction of new goods, market power, among others. Logit and Random Coefficients Logit are examples of demand models used to study these effects. For the supply side it is generally supposed a Nash equilibrium in prices. This work presents a detailed discussion of these models of demand and supply as well as the procedure for estimation. Lastly, is made an application to the Brazilian fixed income fund market.