This study aims to analyze the series of daily prices of soybeans in the North of Parana, which includes the timeline of the years 2000 (from January) to 2011 (until October) and describe their behavior with short-term forecasts. That is, verify if the temporal dynamics of the variable is better...

The present paper has the purpose of investigate the dynamics of the volatility structure in the shrimp prices in the Brazilian fish market. Therefore, a description of the initial aspects of the shrimp price series was made. From this information, statistics tests were made and selected...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste estudo é investigar a existência de persistência e assimetria na estrutura da volatilidade dos retornos dos índices Mid-Large Cap e Small Cap a partir de modelos de séries de tempo da classe GARCH simétricos e assimétricos com distribuição de...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente estudo tem por objetivo principal analisar o esenvolvimento educacional na região metropolitana de Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, por meio do índice IDEB numa sequência bienal composta por três períodos (2005, 2007 e 2009). Como suporte metodológico, nesta...

This article investigates bid updating and subject learning in experimental initial public offers (IPO) of stock pricing methods. A clock auction stands for the "Dutch auction". A sealed-bid uniform price auction represents "book building". A two-stage "book building" emulation represents a...

This article jointly examines the differences of laboratory versions of the Dutch clock open auction, a sealed-bid auction to represent book building, and a two-stage sealed bid auction to proxy for the “competitive IPO”, a recent innovation used in a few European equity initial public...

This study updates previous analyses of banks' activities in equity offerings in the Brazilian market. Using data for the 2004–2007 period, the study tests the hypotheses that banks with the highest reputations coordinate offerings with lower initial returns, lower levels of risk and charge...

This paper proposes a current research agenda on crowdfunding from two different perspectives, mass media and geography. It is believed that these two elements must exert some kind of influence on the dynamics of the investments made in that market. Semantic analysis of mass news can be a useful...

Portuguese Abstract: As Finanças Comportamentais têm sido uma via alternativa para a compreensão da realidade econômica e financeira, por meio de um viés mais abrangente, contrapondo alguns paradigmas e preceitos das Finanças Tradicionais e seus respectivos modelos. Em face disso, este...