In seiner Dissertation beschäftigt sich Frank Zirkl mit Fragen zur Nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung in Brasilien, mit einem Fokus auf Probleme der urbanen Abfallentsorgung in der südbrasilianischen Metropole Curitiba. Dabei standen vor allem Untersuchungen zur Bevölkerungsbeteiligung in der...

The purpose of this study is to understand the debate field in which Brazilian research on family business develops and point out theoretical – methodological perspectives ignored in research. Thesis and dissertations presented in Brazilian universities on the subject where analyzed, in a...

In this paper, we analyze the role of the Brazilian scientific community in shaping the 2005 Law of Biosecurity, which regulates both genetically modified organisms and human embryonic stem-cell research. More specifically, we focus on how scientists, as an interest group, justified the...

This paper investigates the long-term financial integration and bivariate extreme dependency between Bovespa and Istanbul Stock Exchanges. While static cointegration test present no evidence of long term cointegration, introduction of a structural break to the model shows that Bovespa and ISE...

The policy initiatives taken by the Brazilian authorities since the beginning of the decade have helped markedly improve the structure of government debt and the overall liquidity of fixed income and related derivatives markets. Despite this progress, there is room for improvement in the...

O objetivo deste estudo é investigar a relação existente entre as taxas de reinvestimento e rentabilidade de duas empresas do setor bancário brasileiro. Com esse intuito foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa exploratório-descritiva, utilizando-se as técnicas de pesquisa bibliográfica, para o...