4 resultados para durable good
em Repositório digital da Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV
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This article studies a model where, as a consequence of private information, agents do not have incentive to invest in a desired joint project, or a public good, when they are unable to have prior discussion with their partners. As a result, the joint project is never undertaken and inefficiency is observed. Agastya, Menezes and Sengupta (2007) prove that with a prior stage of communication, with a binary message space, it is possible to have some efficiency gain since "all ex-ante and interim efficient equilibria exhibit a simple structure". We show that any finite message space does not provide efficiency gain on the simple structure discussed in that article. We use laboratory experiments to test these results. We find that people do contribute, even without communication, and that any kind of communication increases the probability of project implementation. We also observed that communication reduces the unproductive contribution, and that a large message space cannot provide efficiency gain relative to the binary one.
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According to Bourdieu (1994), there are social camps where the economic logic works upside down. Therefore, the expression ¿family business¿ is paradoxical because inside it resides two distinct and, sometimes, antagonistic logics: the business logic, whose goal is the profit, and the family logic, which aims at the common welfare. That is why one must consider the symbolical exchanges influences on the social relations more than in any other kind of company. Based on these concepts, this research presents an overview of the small and medium brazilian family business universe.
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Este trabalho de dissertação busca averiguar como a estrutura do consumo de bens duráveis dos domicílios brasileiros evoluiu ao longo do tempo e o que determinou a mudança nesse padrão, isto é, que variáveis foram determinantes para que houvesse maior acesso aos mais variados bens duráveis por parte dos domicílios. Dessa forma, este trabalho foi dividido em cinco seções. A primeira visa fazer uma breve revisão da literatura relevante sobre o tema a fim de averiguar até onde estes estudos avançaram e como é possível contribuir de forma significativa a partir do que já foi estudado. A segunda descreve a base de dados utilizada enquanto a terceira faz um breve relato de como a desigualdade de renda, da despesa e do acesso a crédito evoluiu nos últimos 25 anos. A quarta, por sua vez, busca mostrar como os domicílios brasileiros, divididos por decis de renda e por ano, estão estocados de bens duráveis. Por fim, a última sessão mostrará quais foram os determinantes do acesso aos mais variados bens duráveis. Dito de outra forma, o trabalho busca decompor os efeitos que as variáveis de renda real, acesso a crédito e preço tiveram sobre a posse dos bens em questão. De forma geral, este trabalho conclui que, embora ainda existente, a desigualdade de acesso a diferentes bens duráveis foi decrescente ao longo do período analisado. Variáveis de renda real, crédito e preço apresentaram contribuições diferentes e significativas cada bem estudado. As evidências são de que, no geral, além de ter havido um aumento da renda real e do acesso ao crédito, os domicílios apresentaram mudanças de preferências intertemporais em relação à posse dos bens. No mais, os domicílios também se mostraram mais sensíveis à renda e a crédito hoje do que num passado recente.
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Housing is an important component of wealth for a typical household in many countries. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of real-estate price variation on welfare, trying to close a gap between the welfare literature in Brazil and that in the U.S., the U.K., and other developed countries. Our first motivation relates to the fact that real estate is probably more important here than elsewhere as a proportion of wealth, which potentially makes the impact of a price change bigger here. Our second motivation relates to the fact that real-estate prices boomed in Brazil in the last five years. Prime real estate in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have tripled in value in that period, and a smaller but generalized increase has been observed throughout the country. Third, we have also seen a recent consumption boom in Brazil in the last five years. Indeed, the recent rise of some of the poor to middle-income status is well documented not only for Brazil but for other emerging countries as well. Regarding consumption and real-estate prices in Brazil, one cannot imply causality from correlation, but one can do causal inference with an appropriate structural model and proper inference, or with a proper inference in a reduced-form setup. Our last motivation is related to the complete absence of studies of this kind in Brazil, which makes ours a pioneering study. We assemble a panel-data set for the determinants of non-durable consumption growth by Brazilian states, merging the techniques and ideas in Campbell and Cocco (2007) and in Case, Quigley and Shiller (2005). With appropriate controls, and panel-data methods, we investigate whether house-price variation has a positive effect on non-durable consumption. The results show a non-negligible significant impact of the change in the price of real estate on welfare consumption), although smaller then what Campbell and Cocco have found. Our findings support the view that the channel through which house prices affect consumption is a financial one.