Purpose – This study aims to examine the competitiveness of firms operating in the emerging economy of Brazil. This study examines the current perception of Brazilian business leaders regarding the level of competitiveness ...

O propósito deste trabalho é discutir possíveis diferenças conceituais sobre os vocábulos participação e controle social, bem como levantar mecanismos e indicadores de controle social que possam aferir tanto a permeabilidade ...

A presente publicação visa lançar como tema de pesquisa “As questões climáticas e os impactos nos negócios de energia” como um dos temas de importância do centro de estudos em energia.

Lenders can tap into multiple sources of private information to assess consumer credit risk but little is known about the informational synergies between these sources. Using unique panel data on checking accounts and ...

Recent models of economic voting assume that citizens can discount exogenous factors when assessing government's economic performance. Yet there is evidence that Latin American voters do not behave in such way, and attribute ...

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local ...

The stochastic volatility model proposed by Fouque, Papanicolaou, and Sircar (2000) explores a fast and a slow time-scale fluctuation of the volatility process to end up with a parsimonious way of capturing the volatility ...

The capital market within the financial system is considered to be an instrument capable of defining and raising the efficiency of the allocation of goods and funds between savers and investors in a society. Nevertheless, ...