The present paper analyses the influence of the judiciary and bankruptcy law in the credit market and in the economic growth in differents regions of the world. This paper also criticizes the current "Law and Finance" theory, mainly the papers of La Porta et al (1997,1998) and Levine et al...

We apply and test term structure fitting models like polynomial splines, flat forward and Nelson-Siegel to the Brazilian local term structure. They are models used all over the world by authorities and financial markets practitioners but less known locally. These models were tested with a large...

Due to the difficulties that the bank activity presents in a financial institution. And when using the dividend discount model in the evaluation of banks, appears the problem of not being able to estimate the net capital expenses and the working capital noncash. Considering that, this work has...

The Brazilian capital market has been in the last 10 years a attractive space for negotiations and opening of company’s capital. The early studies of market anomalies that are looking for evidence on reasons of understatement and overstatement at the time of the IPO in Brazil date back to...

This paper examines how regulatory interventions can affect the market risk of electricity utilities and telecom carriers traded in the Brazilian stock market. Our article uses a bivariate Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH - BEKK) model to analyze the impact of two...

Capital stock in residential structures, as well as the distribution of its appropriation and ownership among families are fundamental determinants of the wealth, welfare and productivity of the economy. As part of a broad project on the stock of capital of the Brazilian economy in the 20th...

Asset price fluctuations: comparing rational speculative bubbles and the keynesian approach The principal aim of this paper is to analyze the limits of the conventional approach to speculative rational bubbles as an explanation for price fluctuations in financial assets. It is argued that the...

This study tests the value relevance of R&D expenses for the Portuguese context. The methodology adopted is based on econometric models, and takes into consideration the kind of information companies display and the adoption of IASB accounting standards in 2005. The empirical evidence suggests...

Neste artigo elabora-se uma abordagem empírica, com recurso a técnicas econométricas apropriadas para dados em painel, que visa contribuir para a redução (ou mesmo eliminação) do desvio entre os valores contabilístico e de mercado das empresas. Tendo por base 20 das empresas que mais...

A avaliação de técnicas de combinação de previsões para previsão de valores esperados de uma série é um tópico bastante difundido, com a recomendação do uso de tais técnicas para previsão. Por outro lado, não há estudos comparativos do desempenho de combinação de previsões...