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...

This article analyzes empirically the herding behavior on emerging markets, measuring the degree of herding by foreign investors on emerging equity markets, and evaluating the effects of this behavior on the riskiness of the markets. We use an adaptation of the LSV Herding measure and calculate...

This paper empirically evaluates Risk-Neutral Densities (RND) and Real-World Densities (RWD) as predictors of future outcomes of emerging markets currencies. The dataset consists of volatility surfaces from 11 emerging market currencies, with approximately six years of daily data, using options...

Building Risk-Neutral Densities (RND) from options data can provide market-implied expectations about the future behavior of a financial variable. This paper uses the Liu et all (2007) approach to estimate the option-implied risk-neutral densities from the Brazilian Real/US Dollar exchange rate...