This paper aims to evaluate how informal institutions affect the formal ones and how legal proposals may improve both corporate governance and public administration. Through a set of corporate governance cases, especially the recent cases on Petrobras, the state-owned company involved in...

The purpose of this essay is to present how the expansion of the Chinese monetary power may impact Brazil and whether the Brazilian legal environment may be of relevance to the Chinese investment and trade strategies. This study is part of research in progress that has been developed in the...

This paper aims to describe the chief alterations proposed by the Dodd Frank Act to the American over-the-counter derivatives market and, at the same time, understand the extraterritorial reach of this law compared to the regulatory framework of the Brazilian derivative market. In order to do...

The purpose of this essay is to present how the expansion of the Chinese monetary power may impact Brazil and whether the Brazilian legal environment may be of relevance to the Chinese investment and trade strategies. This study is part of research in progress that has been developed in the...

This paper aims to verify the main contributions and adjustments that the paper “Towards a Legal Theory of Finance” from Katharina Pistor may bring to the role of the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) in the Brazilian development financing. In order to do...

This paper aims to describe the chief alterations proposed by the Dodd Frank Act to the American over-the-counter derivatives market and, at the same time, understand the extraterritorial reach of this law compared to the regulatory framework of the Brazilian derivative market. In order to do...

In 2008, the Federal Reserve issued a monetary policy known as Quantitative Easing plan (“American Monetary Policy”), a plan for monetary easing as an attempt to block a deflation in the United States. This measure not only impacted the American economy, but also strongly affected the...

In 2008, the Federal Reserve issued a monetary policy known as Quantitative Easing plan (“American Monetary Policy”), a plan for monetary easing as an attempt to block a deflation in the United States. This measure not only impacted the American economy but also strongly affected the economy...

This paper aims to verify the main contributions and adjustments that the paper “Towards a Legal Theory of Finance” from Katharina Pistor may bring to the role of the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) in the Brazilian development financing. In order to do...