Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to examine the risk-adjusted performance of Brazilian SRI stock funds. Design/methodology/approach - Risk-adjusted performance of 11 Brazilian socially responsible investment (SRI) funds relative to local index funds and matched pairs of funds. Findings...

Technological innovation is a major competitive input that directly translates into long‐term competitive advantage. Presents the results of research that examines innovative activity by country, based on several measures of technological performance. The patterns of inventiveness reported...

This report evaluates and compares the evolution and the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian firms, with a particular emphasis on external financing. One of its main conclusions is that country factors are nearly as important as firm level factors. Industry factors are not very...

A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (Cepal) e o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) mantêm atividades conjuntas desde 1971, abrangendo vários aspectos do estudo do desenvolvimento econômico e social do Brasil, da América Latina e do Caribe. A partir de 2010,...