https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9432 Sun, 31 May 2026 19:40:13 GMT 2026-05-31T19:40:13Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46904 Título: O capital estrangeiro e a financeirização da saúde brasileira no período de 2010 a 2024: um estudo da Hapvida Assistência Médica S.A. (Hapvida NotreDame Intermédica) Abstract: This study examines the insertion of foreign capital and the intensification of financialization in the Brazilian supplementary health sector from 2010 to 2024, focusing on the case of Hapvida NotreDame Intermédica. The Brazilian health system is organized within a public–private structure in which the Unified Health System (SUS) ensures universal access, while the private sector operates in a complementary and competitive manner. In recent decades, the private health insurance segment has expanded through institutional mechanisms such as tax incentives, public contracting and regulatory changes that broadened the scope of private operators. From 2015 onwards, regulatory reforms relaxed restrictions on foreign capital participation, fostering economic concentration and corporate restructuring. The research adopts an analytical and documentary approach based on data from the National Supplementary Health Agency, financial reports and specialized literature. The findings indicate that the growing participation of investment funds and foreign groups has intensified growth strategies through acquisitions, vertical integration and the expansion of proprietary healthcare networks, reshaping market organization. These transformations reinforce the predominance of financial valuation logics and affect the relationship between supplementary health and the public system, with implications for funding, service provision and the institutional configuration of the Brazilian health system Tipo: Dissertação Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46904 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9458 Título: Abertura comercial e crescimento econômico: uma análise dos efeitos dos fluxos de comércio internacional sobre o nível de renda dos estados do Brasil Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of trade openness on economic growth of Brazilian states. Would trade openness of the Brazilian economy, which began in the late 1980s, be responsible for raising the per capita income level of the states? If there was an impact, what is its magnitude? What is the best way to estimate it? How to treat the problem of endogeneity between growth and trade openness? To answer these questions, we undertake an empirical analysis based on dynamic growth regressions, using as a tool the System-GMM estimator. The considered sample covers the 26 states, plus Federal District, for the period from 1989 to 2004. The results showed a positive and significant effect of openness on growth. We also examine the effect of exports on per capita GDP, with both variables divided according to the economic activity sector. In this case, the period is 1989-2009. Exports of industrial products are significant to explain the GDPs by sector (industry, services and agriculture): positively correlated to industry GDP and services GDP and negatively correlated to agricultural GDP. Exports of non-industrial products (related to primary goods) are not significant to explain any sector GDP. Furthermore, case studies of three states - São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul and Maranhão - revealed the peculiarities of each one, suggesting that trade liberalization has affected Brazilian states quite differently Tipo: Dissertação Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9458 2015-04-16T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9457 Título: Desenvolvimento do sistema financeiro e crescimento econômico na América Latina Abstract: This paper made a comparative analysis of the impact of the financial system in economic growth in the major economies of Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) and members of the G7 (Germany, Canada, France, Italy developed countries, Japan, UK and USA) from the 1970s. The purpose of this analysis was to prove the existence of a non-monotonic relationship between the two main variables, while demonstrating what level the financial system cause negative impact in growth rate in each group of countries Tipo: Dissertação Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9457 2015-03-31T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9459 Título: Sobre a origem do desenvolvimento dos seguros Abstract: This paper assesses the historical determinants, as well as estimates the contribution of law and institutions in determining the development level among countries, of an industry that plays a key role in the workings of a modern society: insurance. Empirical results extracted from a sample of 70 developed and emerging countries, from which 40 former colonies, provide evidence that the legal traditions brought by colonizers (British Common Law and French Civil Code), alongside the mortality rates of first colonial settlers, influenced the formation and the quality of long-lasting institutions, with strong implications for the insurance markets and its different development levels seen today among the various countries Tipo: Dissertação Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/9459 2015-04-10T00:00:00Z