Following Almeida, Campello and Weisbach (2003), we use the link between financial constraints and firm’s demand for liquidity to test the effect of financial constraints on firm policies in Brazil. The effect of financial constraints can be captured by a firm’s propensity to save cash out...

This work analyses how the degree of creditor protection and the existence of credit information systems impact the development of the credit market of the countries which make up Mercosul. Using quantile regression to approach the problem empirically, the results obtained indicate that despite...