Métodos matemáticos da microeconomia

Pós-graduação em Matemática Universitária - IGCE

ECLAC Notes Nº 9

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Jamaica: Employer size and worker remuneration in the private sector

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Impactos do REDD em uma economia camponesa amazônica: uma análise baseada em eficiência reprodutiva

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar as possíveis influências do REDD na economia camponesa amazônica, no que se refere a sua produção e reprodução. Consolidada como uma das estruturas camponesas mais antigas do Brasil, a trajetória tecnológica agroflorestal (T2), estudada nessa pesquisa, vem manejando de forma sustentável, ao longo dos séculos, os territórios onde predomina na Amazônia. Os agentes camponeses têm uma economia impulsionada por uma racionalidade muito específica quanto a sua microeconomia e suas relações com o ambiente capitalista do mercado. Tais peculiaridades da economia exigem análises mais complexas, desqualificando grandezas socialmente estabelecidas, especialmente lucro e renda, como forma de mensurar mudanças nessas estruturas. A Inserção dos recursos monetários do REDD (recursos monetários externos a produção familiar) tem impactos distintos de acordo com o campo de padrão reprodutivo que caracteriza as unidades familiares, padrão esse definido utilizando-se essencialmente as grandezas que atendem os requisitos da racionalidade econômica dessas estruturas: a eficiência reprodutiva (h), o montante de trabalho disponível que atende apenas a reprodução simples (β) e o investimento potencial (i). Caso h esteja convergindo para β, ou seja, para o campo de crise, o REDD promoverá aumento do investimento potencial no curto prazo e da produção em longo prazo. Caso h esteja convergindo para h°=(2*β)/(1+β), ou seja, para o campo de excitação a investimentos, os recursos do REDD possibilitaram o incremento do investimento potencial (já o mais elevado entre os campos) no curto prazo e da produção a longo prazo de acordo com a idade da família. Caso h esteja convergindo para 1, ou seja, o campo de conforto, o REDD a longo prazo causará redução do investimento potencial, da h, da produção e aumentará a dependência de produtos industrializados, o que pode comprometer a longo prazo a reprodução nas unidades desse campo. As famílias que convergem para o campo de excitação a investimentos são a maioria na amostra. Outro resultado é a qualificação dos serviços providos pelos agentes do agrário amazônico, utilizando a noção de paradigma tecnológico por trás das trajetórias tecnológicas e dos % de emissões de GEE por trajetória tecnológica, o que proporcionaria um critério justo e eficiente para um futuro regime de REDD no Brasil e auxiliará na concretização do seu objetivo.

Lógica Fuzzy aplicada ao controle de um sistema híbrido de geração de energia elétrica: eólica, fotovoltaica e biogás

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Contribuições de Michel Foucault para analisar documentos e arquivos na judicialização/jurisdicionalização

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A retomada do debate do cálculo econômico socialista: economia da informação, escolha pública e a crítica austríaca

Este artigo analisa a moderna retomada do debate do cálculo econômico socialista. Mostramos como as modificações no cinturão protetor do programa de pesquisa neoclássico possibilitaram a discussão do problema dos incentivos sob informação assimétrica nas novas propostas de socialismo de mercado. Nessas propostas, o problema do conhecimento tal como desenvolvido por Hayek no debate original será interpretado como um problema de informação. Defendemos a tese de que, embora os modelos tenham sido criticados por economistas afiliados a escola da escolha pública, as novas propostas de socialismo de mercado e seus críticos sofrem dos mesmos problemas apontados por Hayek no debate original.

Knowledge Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube

This paper presents a micro-model of knowledge creation and transfer in a small group of people. Our model incorporates two key aspects of the cooperative process of knowledge creation: (i) heterogeneity of people in their state of knowledge is essential for successful cooperation in the joint creation of new ideas, while (ii) the very process of cooperative knowledge creation a¤ects the heterogeneity of people through the accumulation of knowledge in common. The model features myopic agents in a pure externality model of interaction. In the two person case, we show that the equilibrium process tends to result in the accumulation of too much knowledge in common compared to the most productive state. Unlike the two-person case, in the four person case we show that the equilibrium process of knowledge creation may converge to the most productive state. Equilibrium paths are found analytically, and they are a discontinuous function of initial heterogeneity.

Parameterization of applied general equilibrium models with flexible trade specifications based on the Armington, Krugman, and Melitz models

This paper explains how the Armington-Krugman-Melitz supermodel developed by Dixon and Rimmer can be parameterized, and demonstrates that only two kinds of additional information are required in order to extend a standard trade model to include Melitz-type monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms. Further, it is shown how specifying too much additional information leads to violations of the model constraints, necessitating adjustment and reconciliation of the data. Once a Melitz-type model is parameterized, a Krugman-type model can also be parameterized using the calibrated values in the Melitz-type model without any additional data. Sample code for the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) has also been prepared to promote the innovative supermodel in the AGE community.

Search, matching, and self-organization of a marketplace

In many developing countries, clusters of small shops are the typical market-place. We investigate an economic model in which, between buyers and sellers in a marketplace, a circular causality including the search process produces agglomeration forces, given the initial location of the marketplace location exogenously in a linear city. We conclude that initial number of buyers and sellers is important in forming a large marketplace.

U.S.-Israel Foreign Direct Investment and Terrorism. ACES Working Paper No. 9, 2007

The Israeli economy has been subjected to a continuous flow of terror since its creation. The focus of our study is how terrorism's impacts the level of production of the high-tech sector. The two main objectives and novelties of the paper are: First our paper can be a major contribution to as yet a new subfield in applied microeconomics attempting to measure the impact of terror on economic issues like FDI and Industry output in general and that focused on the High-Tech industries. Second our research is designed to help us understand the impact of terror news, especially on U.S citizens' reactions to terror in Israel. Our terror variable isn't how many bodies or but how many negative articles regarding terror there are in leading American news paper. We focus on the volatility clustering of terror information arrivals in major US financial papers and its impact on high-tech production and FDI to Israel.

Innovation, intellectual property and economic growth

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the complex process of innovation. By addressing all the major dimensions of innovation in a single text, Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers are able to show how outcomes at the microlevel feed through to the macro-outcomes that in turn determine personal incomes and job opportunities. In four sections, this textbook comprehensively addresses the nature of innovation and intellectual property, the microeconomics and macroeconomics of innovation, and economic policy at the firm and macroeconomic levels. Among the topics fully explored are the role of intellectual property in creating incentives to innovate; the social returns of innovation; the creation and destruction of jobs by innovation; whether more or fewer intellectual property rights would give firms better incentives to innovate; and the contentious issues surrounding international treaties on intellectual property.

Evaluating the impact of a web-based resource on student learning

This paper reports on an experiment of using a publisher provided web-based resource to make available a series of optional practice quizzes and other supplementary material to all students taking a first year introductory microeconomics module. The empirical analysis evaluates the impact these supplementary resources had on student learning. First, we investigate which students decided to make use of the resources. Then, we analyse the impact this decision has on their subsequent performance in the examination at the end of the module. The results show that, even after taking into account the possibility of self-selection bias, using the web-based resource had a significant positive effect on student learning.