This paper analyzes empirically the behavior of foreign investors on emerging equity markets in a cross-country setting, including 14 emerging markets from the year 2000 to 2005. We could find little evidence that these investors have brought problems to local emerging markets. Foreign investors...

Models play an important role in strategic asset allocation (SAA), however by too much trust in the model stability, results are typically not so useful for practitioners. Professionals usually face the challenging problem of choosing a SAA model that matches their goals, bearing the operational...

This paper assesses the evolution of the bank credit market concentration process in Brazil. We use an unbalanced panel data that covers the period from 2000 to 2013, with data from the banking segment’s active conglomerates and isolated financial institutions. This study empirically...

This paper develops a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model which includes a financial sector to analyze the effects of liquidity shock and credit risk in the Brazilian economy. Banks use equity capital and deposits from agents to finance investments of the productive sector. The sources...

Para revitalizar a cadeia produtiva da cera de carnaúba, é indispensável o conhecimento dos custos de produção e da rentabilidade, de cada atividade envolvida, verificando sua viabilidade econômica, visto que os estudos científicos sobre essa temática praticamente são inexistentes,...

We investigate the empirical relationship between stock returns, return volatility and trading volume in the Brazilian stock market (Bovespa). Our sample contains stock return and trading volume data from a theoretical portfolio including stocks participating in the Bovespa Index (Ibovespa)...

This paper reports the development and estimation of a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) econometric model representing the financial statements of a firm. Although the model can be generalized to represent the financial statements of any firm, this work was carried out as a case study, where the...

We investigate the empirical relationship between stock returns, return volatility and trading volume using data from the Brazilian stock market (Bovespa). Our sample contains stock return and trading volume data from a theoretical portfolio including stocks participating in the Bovespa Index...

This article examines the existence of lead-lag effects between the U.S. stock market, represented by NYSE and the Brazilian stock market, represented by Bovespa, i.e., whether upward and downward price movements in the NYSE are followed, on average, by similar movements in Bovespa, which would...