Petroleum exploration in Brazil is performed throughout a bidding process coordinated by the National Petroleum Agency (NPA), where the exploration and production (E&P) firms need to evaluate concessions performing financial and economic analyses routinely. Since oil is a public resource with...

This study aims to quantify the potential financing estilmates from institutional investors - pension funds, insurance companies, investment funds and sovereign wealth funds - from global (OECD) and domestic markets to infrastructure in Brazil. Institutional investors are not homogeneous, and...

The objective of this study is to analyze the response of improvements in the regulatory rankings of emerging economies to private investments in infrastructure especially for Brazil. The proposed methodology relies on a fixed-effect panel model. We further investigated whether, after the 2008...