This article aims to evaluate the capability of accounting-financial indicators to explain short run oscillations in the Brazilian common stock prices. This is an event study in which the date of disclosure of accounting information is used as reference. The approach is quantitative and uses...

This study analyzes the risk related effect of content intensity in regulatory legislation on the shares of the companies operating in the Brazilian electricity energy market. For this analysis, the regulatory legislation, enshrined in the Federal Constitution of 1988 until 2013 and addressed to...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine if the Brazilian electricity sector is differently affected by the characteristics of the content in the regulatory legislation. Design/methodology/approach: For better robustness of the research, the authors analyzed the period from 1995 to...

"Fortunately, both poverty and extreme poverty have shown a significant decrease in Brazil. According to data from the National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD), poverty dropped over 20 per cent between 2004 and 2013, to about 9 per cent of the...