Purpose: This study aims to intend to check if female board representation affects performance and risk and to analyse the evolution of the demographic aspects of the presence of women on boards in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a sample of 150 Brazilian publicly traded...

We test whether a country's level of financial development or institutional quality (or both) have a first order effect on corporate debt maturity decisions on a sample of 359 non-financial firms from five South American countries over a 12 year period. We find that there is a substantial...

This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure for a sample of 13,070 small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and 67,449 firm-year observations from Eastern European countries over the period 1994-2004. The use of a sample of SMEs in our analysis rather than large listed firms...

GetDFPData is an open and free software for accessing corporate data from B3, the Brazilian financial exchange. Users can import large datasets of financial reports and corporate events with a web or command line interface. The distribution and popularization of open software for gathering and...

This study investigates whether the Consumption-based Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) is consistent with the data from four Latin-American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Empirical results showed that there is a statistical significant relationship between mean excess returns...