Literature in finance and neurosciences shows that male and female differ on many relevant issues concerning financial decision investment. Here, we studied the EEG activity recorded while volunteers were playing a stock trading game to investigate these gender differences. 20 males and 20...

The world is still facing a financial crisis that started in mid 2007 and up to moment it is unsolved. Stock markets around the world reacted badly and the real time news has never played such an important role to investors as seen in previous crises. The impact of the media deepened the bear...

The scope of this paper is to highlight the main regulatory aspects embodied within the CERs (Certificate of Emission Reduction) and its impact on the Brazilian utility companies listed in the stock exchange. It is argued that missing points/holes in the regulation of these financial instruments...

The scope of this paper is to estimate the production function for the Brazilian industrial sector from a longitudinal panel of the industrial sector (Annual Industrial Survey produced by the Institute of Geography and Statistics – PIA/IBGE – and the Ministry of Labour and Employment's...

The scope of this paper is to explore the different aspects of rationality, in an institutionalist approach, digressing about the sources that make an individual rational and its close relation to the laws of subjective probability and its "goodness of fit" to the heterodox approach. This work...