The study assesses whether incorporating macroeconomic variables and characteristics of the credit portfolio improves the specification of models designed to identify management discretion in making loan loss provisions by banks, considering the norms issued by regulatory agencies. The empirical...

Based on the median voter theorem, we propose an econometric model for estimating local demand for public education. We test the hypothesis that public expenditures associated to this sector are induced by the presence of certain factors of social, economic, geographic, and demographic nature....

The paper describes the specification, estimation, and testing of an unrestricted structural econometric model design to explain and forecast individual returns of securities listed on the Brazilian stock market. The model's explanatory variables include macroeconomic, fundamental and...

This empiric-analytic paper, aims at verifying whether the firms' capital structure is sensitive to leverage measures. It also verifies whether most of the leverage variability is due to financial debts. The sample consists of all non-financial companies with data available, positive equity and...