Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo utiliza a teoria institucional para testar hipóteses sobre como os fatores institucionais afetam a decisão das empresas em se organizarem em grupos empresariais, mesmo que essa decisão afete negativamente o valor de mercado dessas empresas ao compararmos com...

Portuguese Abstract: A literatura que estuda o desempenho de grupos empresariais apresenta resultados contraditórios, os quais podem ser creditados às escolhas metodológicas destes estudos (LAHIRI; PURKAYASTHA, 2017). Este estudo propõe uma nova metodologia e avalia o impacto no valor de...

Besides the introduction and the final conclusions, this Discussion Paper has four sections. The first presents the "state of art", that is, the current debate about the long-term financing of the neo-corporatist state capitalism in Brazil. Then it shows the personal and corporate wealth as...

This brief essay discusses the balance sheet evolution of the banking system in Brazil in the recent period, between March 2007 and March 2014, as well as analyses methodological aspects of balance sheet data of the banks in Brazil. The study shows substantial changes in the banking system...

In 2011, the Brazilian government granted an income tax benefit to corporate bonds issued with the specific purpose of financing long-term infrastructure investments (Law 12.431/2011). The financial bonds favored by this policy have become known as "incentivized bonds". This paper describes the...

The purpose of this paper is to present the dynamics of the credit market in Brazil between 2007 and 2015, through the analysis of selected data and indicators. The interregnum considered in this paper comprises a period of important changes in the credit market in Brazil. While the expansion of...

This paper aims, in an exploratory way, to discuss the regional network of financial services in Brazil and its role in the configuration of the Brazilian urban network and its hierarchy. To achieve this objective, the paper, based on the seminal works of both CHRISTALLER (1966) and LÖSCH...

This paper focuses on the geographic distribution of banking activity in Brazil, with the objective of building several quantitative indicators of said spatial distribution. In addition, it puts forward some conjectures regarding the nature and intensity of the changes in the geographic...

This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between economic growth and financial development on theoretical and empirical grounds. We briefly review the arguments that support the existence or not of a positive and causal relation between these two variables, as well as the arguments that...