Este artigo tem como objetivo a realização dos testes de hipóteses de convergênciaabsoluta, condicional e sigma convergência, das taxas de crescimento per capita daagropecuária dos Estados brasileiros, ao longo do período de 1980 a 2004. Esses modelosforam testados contemplando a...

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar o estudo comparativo de retorno de investimentos em três áreas de terras arrendadas, de diferentes tamanhos, localizadas na região noroeste do Paraná, mais especificamente no município de Umuarama. Nesta região de solo arenoso, denominado...

The objective of this work is to analyze the Arte Rio Cooperative’s decision making process to assess how far it comprehends itsmembers’ cooperative production system, i.e. if there is a logic governing the process that is different from utilitarian economics. Itwas inferred that the logic...

The recent expansion of the sugar and ethanol industries has raised some concerns regarding a number of issues. One major concernis with the quality of employment, the level of remuneration, the presence of child labor, the low qualification of the workers,informality and the high presence of...

The national market for FLV (fruits, legumes and vegetables) has grown significantly in recent years. However, due to the high perishability of these products, their quality is subject to appropriate processes of standardization, selection, classification, packaging and transportation to avoid...

The growth of the world’s organic food market in the last ten years has been raising the demand for studies related to this theme.Supermarkets have been proving themselves relevant actors in the distribution of these products in Brazil and in the external market.This paper aims to describe the...

The Brazilian poultry chain has been intensely restructured during the last few years to remain competitive in the internal and externalmarkets. Analysis of all the chain levels indicates that the processing segment is characterized by an intense innovation process, inboth its product and its...

The study verifies, between march 2005 and march 2006, if there is any difference between the stock yields of a sample of companieslisted in Bovespa that adopt the principles of Corporate Governance, in different levels, in relation to the companies of the traditionalmarket. The data were...

The analysis and measurement of production and transaction costs is an important tool in guiding decisions and in comprehendingthe behavior of the agents in a particular institutional environment. Although production costs have been widely studied in theliterature, transaction costs have not...

Measurement Cost Theory (MCT) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) are both theoretical frameworks applied to the studyof economic transactions. In the MCT, the attributes’ measurability is a key variable for identifying efficient modes of governance.The application of MCT to agri systems...