The Brazilian capital market has been in the last 10 years a attractive space for negotiations and opening of company’s capital. The early studies of market anomalies that are looking for evidence on reasons of understatement and overstatement at the time of the IPO in Brazil date back to...

English Abstract: The long-horizon event study methodology is used to document the severe impact of the US subprime mortgage crisis on the Colombian economy. The estimated parameter of a constant mean return model is used to derive the “abnormal return” on the market portfolios of Colombia...

Portuguese Abstract: Este estudo avalia o comportamento de carteiras formadas por ativos do mercado acionário brasileiro ordenados em função de sua volatilidade para investigar a anomalia de baixa volatilidade.Entre janeiro de 2003 e junho 2017, o portfólio de baixa volatilidade apresentou...

Starting from an adapted version of Osler and Chang (1995) methodology, this article empirically evaluates the profitability of investment strategies based on identification of the Head and Shoulders chart pattern in the Brazilian stock market. For that purpose, several investment strategies...

The purpose of this article is to investigate whether, how and when, from a statistical standpoint, Technical Analysis strategies tools hold true for the futures contract of Ibovespa Index, negotiated at the Brazilian Futures Exchange (“Bolsa Brasileira de Mercadorias e Futuros – BM&F”),...

The purpose of this work is to gather some evidence about the relationship between crude prices and speculation in oil futures and options markets focusing on WTI markets. In order to shed some light on this link, a brief characterization of what a speculative bubble is and how it works is...

O mercado é eficiente se novas informações relevantes causarem variação no retorno das ações. As ações podem ser afetadas por eventos e isso pode causar oscilações. A pesquisa analisa a reação do mercado à divulgação de informações sobre a maior instituição de educação...