Browsing FGV EAESP - MPGI: Dissertações, Mestrado Profissional em Gestão Internacional by Advisor "Pacheco, Julia Alice Sophia von Maltzan"
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The Brazilian student housing market: an exploratory study
2016This research analyzes the emerging and growing student housing market in Brazil with the objective of establishing the market attractiveness and potential for investors and entrepreneurs. Because of the underdeveloped ... -
The dawn of solar power in Brazil: current state and future challenges
2017-11-29As a sun-soaked South American giant with a population of more than 200 million, Brazil is considered to have some of the best conditions for solar power worldwide. Despite its tremendous potential, the countryhas so far ... -
Development and evaluation of a range anxiety-reducing business model for connected full electric vehicles
2012-09-27This thesis develops and evaluates a business model for connected full electric vehicles (FEV) for the European market. Despite a promoting political environment, various barriers have thus far prevented the FEV from ... -
Economic history of cocoa in Southern Bahia its role on economy, society and culture
2017-12-07Using an historical point of view and using the analysis of Jorge Amado in his books and works on cocoa, I will analyze the relation between Cocoa’s crop and the Bahian society that created the 'cocoa civilization' using ... -
The effects of commodity dependence on the brazilian economy: a test of the dutch disease hypothesis
2013-03-14A doença holandesa tornou-se amplamente conhecida na década de 1960, quando a descoberta repentina de reservatórios de gás natural em território holandês, na região do mar do norte, transformou o país em uma economia rica ... -
The evolution of wind power in Brazil: analysis of government policy and its effects
2018-12-10Cada vez mais pressionados para investir em fontes de energia sustentável, os governos são influenciados principalmente pelas novas exigências do meio ambiente, dos consumidores e da sociedade. A solução ótima encontrada ... -
The impact of corruption on the performance of state-owned companies: case of Petrobras Brasil
2016-04-14State-owned companies are often considered as crucial components of a country’s economy. They are responsible for the creation of numerous jobs and are often providing essential services that require heavy capital investment. ... -
Income inequality and human capital development
2014-02-06Human Capital investments are essential for the economic development of a country. In Brazil, several sources point to the lack of qualified workforce as a cause of slower economic growth. This dissertation explores the ... -
International trade and economic growth: an exploratory case study based on the country analysis of Colombia, South Africa and Vietnam
2020-01-31This master thesis analyses the impact of international trade on economic growth for emerging markets. Emerging markets are increasing their share in global GDP output and contribute a great share to total GDP growth in ... -
Local currency bond markets in Latin American economies: a study on evolution and impact in the development of capital markets
2020-01-28The development and expansion of local currency bond market (LCBM) by government and non-government issuers has been one of the main agenda items for policymakers in the last several years. While progress is being made in ... -
Performance of incentive contracts in highway PPP projects in Brazil
2014-07-15Private-Public Partnerships (P.P.P.) is a new contractual model institutionalized in 2004 that could be used to remedy to the infrastructure deficit in Brazil. In a context of a principal and agent relation, the public ... -
Performance of private equity funds in emerging markets: an empirical analysis
2017This paper investigates the performance of private equity funds in emerging markets based on data of individual fund level returns from 1995 to 2013 obtained from Preqin. The research focus of this thesis lies on performance ... -
Rent seeking and business organizations: an explanatory study of business organization’s role during Brazil’s trade liberalization era
2017-03-13Brazil partially shifted from state-led development to market economy following its switch to democracy. This affected the economy in two ways: first the state initiated a wave of privatization in the wake of the fiscal ... -
Risky business: social media metrics and political risk analysis
2015Quantifying country risk – and in particular, political risk – poses great difficulties for business, institutions, and investors alike. As economic indicators are updated far less frequently than Facebook feeds, it can ... -
The rouanet law: funding cultural projects or a creative industry in Brazil?
2017-10-31The purpose of this work is to explore the way the Rouanet Law has been applied in Brazil by addressing participants’ meanings on it and its use to explain why some manage and others fail, as well as their fundraising ... -
The state of impact investment in Latin America: an exploratory study based on the country analysis of Brazil and Mexico
2019The increasing awareness of sustainability has also taken hold into the financial sector. New investment strategies that aim to integrate economic value creation with investors´ moral believes are on the rise. Impact ... -
Structuring a startup's operations in an emerging market
2016-02-08The present work analyzes the establishment of a startup’s operations and the structuring all of the processes required to start up the business, launch the platform and keep it working. The thesis’ main focus can therefore ... -
Telenovelas in Brazil: a dream factory?: product placement in Brazilian telenovelas
2016-11-18This research analyzes 'telenovelas' in Brazil, with the objective of defining to what extent these popular programs represent a dream factory, literally as an industry that sells dreams and metaphorically in terms of ... -
The value of diversity: can a company’s gender diversity levels have a positive influence on its financial performance?
2019-05-02This study aims to understand whether higher levels of gender diversity in top 150 global fortune 500 corporations’ board of directors has a positive impact on their financial performance. Also, it seeks to understand what ... -
What are the causes of different brain drain rates in emerging markets? An exploratory study of Brazil and Mexico
2018-02-18The following Master’s thesis examines the causes of brain drain in the context of emerging countries. More precisely, the thesis aims to assess to what extent the migration of highly educated people from emerging countries ...
