We use extensive hand collected surveys reporting governance practices in 2004, 2006, and 2009 to build a broad corporate governance index and analyze the evolution of corporate governance in Brazil and the association between governance and firm value. We find that corporate governance...

This article focuses on the main idiosyncrasies of the PEVC in Brazil and its evolution from 2004 to 2009. The main idiosyncrasies are the participation of investors in the investment process, absence of leveraged buyouts, shared control and use of special rights to compensate for the absence of...

This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions having as instrumental variable the individual distance to police stations. We explore data from the Confidence in Justice Survey conducted for the period at 2013 to 2014 at state...

Portuguese Abstract: Este trabalho visa avaliar o impacto da adoção das IFRS em variáveis usuais em pesquisas empíricas de finanças no mercado brasileiro, tais como: tamanho (ativo total); ativo imobilizado; ROA (retorno sobre o ativo); ROE (retorno sobre o patrimônio líquido);...

We study the relationship between enterprise risk management and firm value. We analyze how the influence and reporting of the chief risk officer (CRO) and the incentives to compensate him or her contribute to firm value. We use U.S. publicly traded insurers data between 2009 and 2017 and find...

We study the determinants of corporate governance (CG) practices in Brazil between 2010 and 2014. We build CG subindices for Board Structure, Board Procedures, Minority Shareholders Rights, and Disclosure, and an overall CG index, BCGI, computed as the average of these four subindices. During...