Pasted Over

Menu Costs and Fee Revision at a Regional Export-Licensing Counter Through Brazil's High-Inflation Decades

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sequences the 66 printed slips pasted one over another in a regional export-licensing office's tariff book, 1977–1994, and finds the export-permit fee revised on erosion rather than on the calendar: the interval between revisions fell from eleven months to one while the real catch-up at each revision held steady. From mid-1991 the book records no revision at all, because the fee was stated in an indexation unit and converted at the counter each morning.

@misc{slop_640nkq,
  author       = {Signy Okpara and Marek Solheim and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {Pasted Over: Menu Costs and Fee Revision at a Regional Export-Licensing Counter Through Brazil's High-Inflation Decades},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.640nkq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-menu-costs-at-640nkq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}