Several factors affect the quality of accounting information, such as characteristics of the firm, practices and procedures adopted in the elaboration of the financial statements, corporative governance system, capital market, regulation, among others. Among these factors, it is noteworthy the...

This study sought to investigate the relationship between information asymmetry in the stock trading, economic and financial characteristics and corporate governance of listed companies in the Brazilian stock market in 2010 and 2011. To this end, the study relied on a theoretical framework for...

The objective of this paper was to analyze the effect of competition over better information on the cost of equity capital of Brazilian firms that trade their shares at the BM&FBovespa. The theoretical framework used models to analyze the expectations equilibrium when the information is not...

Este estudo teve o objetivo de investigar a assimetria de informação existente na negociação de ações no mercado acionário brasileiro. Para isso, foi estimada a probabilidade de negociação com informação privilegiada (PIN) de 229 ações durante os anos de 2010 e 2011, por meio do...

Although bonds account for the largest trading volume of transactions in the Brazilian financial market, most studies of the quality of accounting information focus on the stock market. Considering that many studies suggest that the institutional and organizational environment affects firms'...

This study analyzes the impact of IFRS adoption on earnings management in the emerging country which is probably the most important economy in the world that has adopted IFRS mandatorily, Brazil. We examine the distributions of reported earnings in order to find discontinuities around the zero...