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Portuguese Abstract: Este estudo avalia o comportamento de carteiras formadas por ativos do mercado acionário brasileiro ordenados em função de sua volatilidade para investigar a anomalia de baixa volatilidade.Entre janeiro de 2003 e junho 2017, o portfólio de baixa volatilidade apresentou...

This paper studies the factors that determine the financial literacy level of the Portuguese individual investors and explores the relation between financial literacy and financial behavior, particularly portfolio diversification. Our results suggest that the average financial literacy level of...

Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund (TTT) is the first Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in Taiwan. This study investigates the impact of TTT on the liquidity of the constituent stocks. The empirical result coincides with the expectation of arbitrage hypothesis that the liquidity of the constituents is...

The restriction of short-sale prices, which stated that short-sale prices must not be lower than the closing price of the previous trading day, no longer applies to the constituent stocks of the Taiwan Top 50 Index. This study investigates the abnormal returns and volatility changes of those...

This work is a compilation of studies produced at the Social Studies Department - Disoc/Ipea to support the elaboration of the document Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007. Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 and the role of the government in health care are...

This technical paper estimates the deductions on tax credits in Brazil for health care during 2003 and 2006. Subsidies for private health insurance are the focus of this study. It seems to be a contradiction between the redistribution model in the Constitution and the level of public spending on...

This work is a compilation of studies produced at the Social Studies Department - Disoc/Ipea to support the elaboration of the document "Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007". Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 and the role of the government in health care are...

This technical paper estimates the deductions on tax credits in Brazil for health care during 2003 and 2006. Subsidies for private health insurance are the focus of this study. It seems to be a contradiction between the redistribution model in the Constitution and the level of public spending on...