Bens credenciais e poder de mercado : um estudo econométrico da indústria farmacêutica brasileira

The Brazilian pharmaceutical industry has always been targeted by the society, due to the ethical drugs’ high weight in the families’ consumption budgets (especially within the poorer ones) and price raises traditionally above inflation (when the government does not run a price control). The present article aims to organize the debate on regulation for this industry. We review the literature on market failures and regulation solutions adopted for this industry worldwide and try to relate empirically drug prices to some explaining variables, based on original microdata. We find that, similarly to previous U.S. estimations, Brazilian leading brand name drugs – before a 1999 law, which created officially the generic drug defined by its bioequivalence to the reference drug, and a massive advertisement campaign for spreading use of generic drugs, run by the Ministry of Health – accommodated entry and share growth of the followers by raising their prices and catering to a more inelastic market segment. As opposed, the followers reduce relative prices when they lose market. Therefore, a fall of the concentration index in a particular segment has ambiguous effects: if it is due to reduced leader power, the followers raise their relative prices; if it is due to a tougher competition within the fringe, relative prices tend to go down.

Pesquisador da FGV/DAPP participa do principal encontro de estatística do Brasil

O pesquisador da FGV/DAPP João Victor participou, durante o mês de Julho, do 21º SINAPE - Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística, em Natal, a principal reunião científica da comunidade estatística brasileira. Durante uma semana, o pesquisador da DAPP participou de palestras e minicursos e apresentou seu projeto sobre Ferramentas para Formatação e Verificação de Microdados de Pesquisas, sob orientação do atual presidente-eleito do International Statistical Institute, Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva.

Pequenas ilhas de inclusão em um oceano de exclusão digital: uma análise da população brasileira com acesso à internet ao longo do tempo, espaço e status sócioeconômico

Este artigo descreverá a distribuição das possibilidades de acesso à rede internacional de computadores, a Internet, dentro do crescimento do acesso do Brasil. Para tanto iremos desagregar os dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) do IBGE observando o aumento do acesso à Internet por nível de educação, cor, região, sexo, e idade. O artigo se configura como um ensaio descritivo, que utiliza como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica e apresentamos também um modelo linear generalizado. Dessa forma, mostramos o perfil da exclusão digital, isto é, os retratos do crescimento do acesso a Internet entre os anos de 2001 e 2002 e o efeito da mudança na estrutura dessas variáveis sobre o acesso à Internet.

Perspectivas sobre o teletrabalho no contexto da administração pública brasileira: um anteprojeto

The job market today, undergoes transformations necessary for employees and employers. Coupled with technological progress, a large degree of connectivity and a new profile of workers opened up many opportunities and relevant aspects that have changed the way of working and their relations in several countries, including Brazil. This technological progress has provided contemporary workers to pursue alternative working outside of the workplace, the office and outside your residence without physical boundaries. Also provided the change in culture of both organizations, as employees, without compromising the Brazilian formal contractual character played by CLT or the Unified Contracting Regime. The emergence of this new type of worker needs to be inserted in the labor market respecting their peculiarities, either by private or public companies. Through a historical review of labor relations and their transformations over time, this research makes a brief reflection and analysis about telework in the Brazilian public administration, implementation, acceptance, advantages, disadvantages, difficulties, external and internal reflections, cultural impact, among others, that this "new" way of working brings to Brazilian society and the various levels of government.