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- Atractor de Lorenz: efeito borboletaPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.Este trabalho consiste numa descriçao da importante descoberta obtida por E. Lorenz quando trabalhava num modelo para previsão meteorológica: o efeito borboleta. Na resolução de um sistema por processos iterativos, Lorenz verificou que uma simples diferença na ordem das décimas de milésimas e numa só variavel traduzia-se em soluções completamente diferentes das anteriores obtidas. Este efeito reflecte a sensibilidade às condições iniciais do sistema, que é uma característica essencial dos sistemas caõticos, e observável em áreas da ciência tão diferentes, como a Matemática, a Física, a Biologia, a Economia, a Gestao, entre outras.
- Dinâmica simbólica e ferradura de SmalePublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.Descrevemos a “ferradura de Smale”, um sistema dinâmico bem conhecido que apresenta um conjunto de propriedades muito importantes em Sistemas Dinâmicos. O estudo da dinâmica da “ferradura de Smale” permitenos entender a importância do conceito de dinâmica simbólica.
- Environmental taxation: privatization with different public firm’s objective functionsPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Ferreira, FlávioIn this paper, we study the effects of environmental taxes and privatization in a mixed market, by considering that the public firm aims to maximize the social welfare. The model has two stages. In the first stage, the government sets the environmental tax. Then, the firms engage in a Cournot competition, choosing output and pollution abatement levels. We also compare the results obtained with the ones got when the public firm aims to maximize the sum of consumer surplus and the firm’s profit.
- Equilíbrio de Nash versus Óptimo de Pareto: racionalidade individualista versus racionalidade altruístaPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Ferreira, Flávio
- Flexibility in a Stackelberg leadership with differentiated goodsPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Ferreira, Flávio; Ferreira, Miguel; Pinto, Alberto A.We study the effects of product differentiation in a Stackelberg model with demand uncertainty for the first mover. We do an ex-ante and ex-post analysis of the profits of the leader and of the follower firms in terms of product differentiation and of the demand uncertainty. We show that even with small uncertainty about the demand, the follower firm can achieve greater profits than the leader, if their products are sufficiently differentiated. We also compute the probability of the second firm having higher profit than the leading firm, subsequently showing the advantages and disadvantages of being either the leader or the follower firm.
- Maximum-revenue tariff under Bertrand duopoly with unknown costsPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Ferreira, FlávioThis paper considers an international trade under Bertrand model with differentiated products and with unknown production costs. The home government imposes a specific import tariff per unit of imports from the foreign firm. We prove that this tariff is decreasing in the expected production costs of the foreign firm and increasing in the production costs of the home firm. Furthermore, it is increasing in the degree of product substitutability. We also show that an increase in the tariff results in both firms increasing their prices, an increase in both expected sales and expected profits for the home firm, and a decrease in both expected sales and expected profits for the foreign firm.