The urban advances of the last decades have enabled the expansion of the electric sector globally, hence increasing the waste generated by such activities. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards have been adopted worldwide by the electricity sector and corroborate for sustainable...

We analyse the system of energy distribution by pipelined fuel gas in the residential sector of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the potential market for the expansion of pipelined fuel gas, as well as strategies for its distribution in urban areas.

Purpose: Branching is not the only way for foreign banks to enter a national market, and it is impractical when there are informational and cultural barriers and asymmetries among countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of cross-border branching in the Latin American...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of firm-, industry- and country-level determinants on real annual sales growth in the context of a cross-classified multilevel perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The authors studied 11,381 firms from 17 industries in six...

Portuguese Abstract: Um dos temas mais discutidos na área de finanças é a forma como os mercados se estruturam informacionalmente, precificando ativos financeiros. Uma das teorias centrais de discussão é a Hipótese de Eficiência dos Mercados (HEM) de Eugene Fama (1970), derivada da teoria...

We investigate the effect of mandatory remuneration disclosure on the performance, compensation, risk and liquidity of firms in emerging markets with weak legal protection. We used the difference-in-differences method and multilevel regressions, which assumes as a legal framework the mandatory...