This thesis set out to investigate the relationship between political regime type, and FDI inflow. The academic field has seen a fair amount of research in recent years, but this is usually limited to the likes of democracies and autocracies. I argue that many countries are neither of these two, but find themselves in a political unstable gray zone in between, called hybrid regimes. This thesis draws on a comprehensive dataset ranging from 1980-2010, and by way of time-series cross-section analysis; it sets out to explore the attractiveness of hybrid regimes in relation to FDI inflow. The findings indicate that unstable political regimes do attract MNCs, but that they usually are dependent on natural resources. Hybrid regimes receive more FDI inflow than autocracies, but less than democracies. The thesis also find that the region Africa is special in that hybrid regimes are the biggest recipient of FDI inflow, with natural resources being the main factor. The findings support the former literature saying that democratic conditions attracts MNCs, but also question the alleged democratic transition taking place in a growing oil-dependent world.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio-Econômico. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T20:52:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-09-25T17:59:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 170661.pdf: 3082901 bytes, checksum: 8fd48cdbe17192bcedad1fedb4276d26 (MD5) / A presente dissertação trata dos reflexos do processo de globalização nos regimes políticos do Brasil e do México, particularmente sobre a existência de processos globais que transcendem aos modelos de Estados nacionais para se converter em fenômenos sócio-políticos internacionais acontecidos no período de 1988 a 1998. Na América Latina, a abertura ao comércio e aos investimentos externos é uma complexa trama, formada, de um lado, pela polarização social, e deterioração das condições de emprego e, de outro lado, pela sofisticação da produção e amadurecimento da relação empregado-empregador. Porém, trata-se de um estudo comparativo de análise sobre os reflexos da globalização dos países Brasil e México, onde a desregulamentação, a privatização e a reforma do Estado foram as três categorias analíticas estudadas para compreender o atual modelo econômico dos países globalizados. Procuram-se então os fatores que representaram, ao longo do processo de globalização, o impacto das mudanças nos regimes políticos da América Latina, os quais modificaram a atual realidade do Estado e sua função pública na sociedade. Os reflexos da globalização manifestarem um incremento nos índices de pobreza e desemprego durante a década de 80 e 90 o que reflete o erro de tirar do Estado as políticas de bem-estar social.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias Juridicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 1993 / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-16T05:33:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 93298.pdf: 10677320 bytes, checksum: 1b73ad685754015e7f661996c45e1729 (MD5) / Esta pesquisa estabelece um fato: no caso, a primeira reação armada ao regime militar instaurado com o golpe de 31/03/64, no Brasil, como situação paradigmática a partir do qual é elaborada uma análise do político e do jurídico durante o período que vai desde o golpe militar até o início da abertura política (1964-1979). Esta análise, no tocante à questão política, abrange, além do fato em si, todo o complexo político que originou o golpe militar e a aparente não-reação do governo deposto, a consolidação do regime militar e o processo que envolveu o início da abertura política. Quanto à questão jurídica, a partir do julgamento a que foram submetidos os réus no episódio em questão, são feitas observações sobre a natureza do Direito no qual foram enquadrados, e de como a sua ação, possibilitando pelo instrumental técnico-jurídico à disposição dos operadores da lei, vincula-se à perpetuação dos interesses políticos hegemônicos e acaba por atuar como um importante fator para legitimar o governo militar. Embora seja feita uma divisão que parece demonstrar à possibilidade de fracionar o trabalho em três objetos de análise, (o histórico, o político e o jurídico), esta divisão, na medida em que entra em contradição com o próprio conteúdo da dissertação, serve justamente para demonstrar a impossibilidade de tal fracionamento

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Tese (livre-docencia) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T18:47:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1974Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T13:03:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 99734.pdf: 4407962 bytes, checksum: 1483d71b0a41290fa83056c8e8536029 (MD5)

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias Juridicas / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T20:24:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1995Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T19:50:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 102700.pdf: 2542079 bytes, checksum: f8e387ce9b151d610665606b0b2ea2df (MD5) / Análise dos fenômenos do personalismo e da subseqüente (de) formação da cidadania brasileira, levando em conta ainda, outros complexos aspectos e variante culturais (doenças - patológicas culturais), noções históricas. A instituição sob o prisma nacional. O legado centralista. A ideologia municipalista e o poder legal. Os regimes de governo e seus usuais condicionamentos à cidadania brasileira. Proposição de alternância nos mecanismos próprios aos regimes de governos, para ampliar as formas de controle social ao autoritarismo.

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2016-11-30T20:46:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Marconi Rates Santiago Sobrinho.pdf: 1486053 bytes, checksum: f8731001d9a979ded88329596993f9c2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-30T20:46:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Marconi Rates Santiago Sobrinho.pdf: 1486053 bytes, checksum: f8731001d9a979ded88329596993f9c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-27 / CAPES / The present study aims to examine, in the light of International Relations Regimes theory, the harmonization of Intellectual Property Regime in the modern international scenery - Post- TRIPS - and its influence on technological and economic development of the countries subject to this specific regime, observing the perspectives of developed and developing countries.The theme of Intellectual Property became more important through the debates that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the specific international organization on the subject, namely, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is a topic of high political value present in international agendas of economic blocs and individual states; that is why there is a need to broaden the discussion of intellectual property, and to identify the impact of this particular regime on the results and behavior of the countries subject to the regime in its economic area.There is a patent need to verify whether there is harmonization between the principles, norms, rules and procedures on policy decisions of states, in addition to observe the effectiveness of the regime in relation to national development. Finally, it is noticed that the relationship between the rules of intellectual property and the economic and technological development of states care not directly related, it means, there is no necessary bond between them. However, international and domestic policies that build on foundations of the intellectual property system help, in fact, the construction of a national system able to assist the process of national development. / O presente trabalho busca analisar, à luz das Teorias dos Regimes das Relações Internacionais, a harmonização do Regime de Propriedade Intelectual no panorama internacional moderno – Pós-TRIPS – e sua influência no desenvolvimento tecnológico e econômico dos países submetidos a este regime específico, observando as perspectivas dos países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. O tema da Propriedade Intelectual tomou proporções de maior escala por meio dos debates que deram origem à Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) e da criação da organização internacional específica a respeito do tema, qual seja, a Organização Mundial de Propriedade Intelectual (OMPI), sendo um tópico de alto valor político presente nas agendas internacionais dos blocos econômicos e dos Estados individuais; razão pela qual se verifica a necessidade de ampliar a discussão da Propriedade Intelectual, além de verificar o impacto deste regime específico sobre os resultados e comportamentos dos países membros do regime em sua seara econômica. Há de se verificar se realmente existe harmonização entre os princípios, normas, regras e procedimentos sobre as decisões políticas dos Estados, além de se observar a eficácia do regime no que tange ao desenvolvimento nacional. Ao final, nota-se que a relação entre as normas de Propriedade Intelectual e o desenvolvimento econômico e tecnológico dos estados podem não estar diretamente relacionados, ou seja, não há um liame necessário entre ambos. No entanto, políticas internacionais e domésticas que se apoiem em fundamentos do regime de propriedade intelectual auxiliam, de fato, a construção de um sistema nacional capaz de auxiliar o processo de desenvolvimento nacional.

This dissertation investigates the effect of state capacity on the probability for democratic transition and the survival of democracies. I seek to answer these quesitons through the use of both quantitative and qualitative analysis. In my statistical models, I make use of Cox Proportional Hazard Models. These are supplemented by two case studies involving South Korea and the Philippines. My expectation, which is supported by the results presented in this study, is that higher levels of state capacity will make authoritarian regimes more stable and thus make democratic transitions less likely, but if democratic transitions take place, higher levels of state capacity will make new democratic regimes more likely to survive.

Thesis advisor: Fabio Ghironi / My doctoral dissertation studies the interaction between financial development, exchange rate regimes and productivity growth. The first chapter provides a microfounded, quantitative model that rationalizes recent empirical evidence by Aghion et al (2009), who find that fixed exchange rate regimes lead to higher long-run productivity growth in countries with low financial development, while the effect in financially developed countries is insignificant. The channel that explains this evidence in my model is the following: A fixed exchange rate regime leads to lower inflation when the money growth is otherwise high. In turn, lower inflation results in higher long-run productivity growth since financial intermediaries hold a fraction of deposits as reserves, whose return is lower than the market rate and, thus, is affected by inflation. The lower return paid on reserves drives a wedge between the return paid on deposits and the return paid on loans by reducing the former and increasing the latter. In turn, this reduces entry of new innovators in the economy and, consequently, productivity growth. I show that the negative effect of flexible exchange rate regimes on growth is larger for countries with lower levels of financial development because inflation and the fraction of deposits held as reserves are higher in these countries. In the second chapter, I perform panel-data analysis to find how much of the effect of exchange rate regimes on productivity growth, documented previously by Aghion et al. (2009), can be accounted for by the channel proposed in the first chapter of my dissertation. I use data for 83 countries over the period 1960-2000. The data comes from the Penn World Table, World Development Indicators, International Financial Statistics, and the Reinhart and Rogoff classification of exchange rate regimes. I use the GMM system estimator and regress productivity growth on financial development, a variable describing the exchange rate regime, growth controls, as well as bank reserve ratios. I find that when the interaction effect of inflation and financial development or the interaction of the reserve ratio and financial development are added to the regression used by Aghion et al. (2009), the exchange rate regime effect on productivity growth in less financially developed countries is no longer significant. This implies that the channel proposed in the first chapter of my dissertation can explain most of the initial empirical results. The third chapter explores the short-run effect of exchange rate regimes on the macroeconomic performance of a small open economy with endogenous productivity growth and underdeveloped financial markets when the home economy is subject to shocks. I use the model introduced in the first chapter, add nominal price rigidities, and calculate impulse responses, given a productivity shock and a shock to the foreign nominal interest rate. I also calculate second moments implied by the model and compare them to empirical second moments. The results show that after a positive exogenous productivity shock, productivity growth, output and consumption increase more under the flexible exchange rate regime. However, given an increase in the foreign nominal interest rate, productivity growth falls but the reduction in productivity growth is smaller under the fixed exchange rate regime. In addition, output and consumption fall after the shock, however, the reduction of consumption and output is higher under the fixed exchange rate regime. I also find that after both shocks analyzed here, welfare is higher under the fixed exchange rate regime. The model is also able to match some features of business cycles in developing countries. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics.