Este artigo examina empiricamente a demanda de derivativos de câmbio de empresas brasileiras de capital aberto. Para tanto, construimos um banco de dados original com 23.767 contratos de swap cambial entre empresas e instituições financeiras em aberto em 2002. A partir destes contratos,...

The present paper analyses the influence of the judiciary and bankruptcy law in the credit market and in the economic growth in differents regions of the world. This paper also criticizes the current "Law and Finance" theory, mainly the papers of La Porta et al (1997,1998) and Levine et al...

The bankruptcy of three big private banks (Econômico, Nacional and Bamerindus) in the beginning of the Plano Real has been attributed to the fast and intense growth of loan after the fall of inflation. The three banks balance sheet data, however, show a decrease in credit amount or a very small...

Este artigo apresenta uma analise para o risco operacional levando em conta informações referentes aos quatro maiores bancos brasileiros. Para tanto, é feita uma breve analise do estado-da-arte sobre o risco operacional e propõe uma discussão em torno dos critérios adotados pelo Comitê de...

We thoroughly describe the workings of the Brazilian interbank exchange rate market: agents, products, regulation, operation and risks. We analyse the recent evolution of the exchange rate market and came to a negative evaluation of the current exchange rate trading system, thereby suggesting an...

This research evidences the value of flexibility on the investment decision, in the exploration sector of copper, face to the existence of an abandonment option. The results of three evaluation models are compared: the Net Present Value; the Binomial and a Suitable Binomial to the exploration...

This article intends to evidence the flexibility effect in the investment decision. This flexibility is known by the real options term, these options possess value, which will increase the value of an investment that possesses them. The traditional investments evaluation methods are not enough...

We thoroughly describe the workings of the Brazilian interbank exchange rate market: agents, products, regulation, operation and risks. We analyse the recent evolution of the exchange rate market and came to a negative evaluation of the current exchange rate trading system, thereby suggesting an...

In theory, prices of current-month federal funds futures contracts should reflect market expectations of near-term movements in the Federal Reserve's target level for the federal funds rate. However, empirical results show that such measures of market expectations are too noisy to predict...

Portuguese Abstract: Neste artigo investiga-se o que determina o fluxo de recursos para fundos de investimentos brasileiros. Constata-se que investidores são mais atentos ao risco de mercado (beta) ao avaliar fundos, enquanto tendem a atribuir o retorno de fatores como tamanho, valor, momentum,...