11 articles in this issue
Nicolau Reinhard
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Rafael Branco Rodrigues, Luiz de Magalhães Ozorio, Carlos de Lamare Bastian Pinto, Luiz Eduardo Teixeira Brandão
ABSTRACT Fertilizers are extremely important to agricultural production worldwide due to the productivity improvements they allow. This paper uses the real options theory to evaluate the product switch option, ammonia or urea, in a nitrogen fertilizer pla... see more
Matheus Silveira Catauli dos Santos, Luiz Eduardo Teixeira Brandão, Vinicius Mothé Maia
ABSTRACT Career choice is an important decision and is usually made in an environment full of uncertainties for relatively young and inexperienced people. In this study, we aimed to analyze the decision to choose between a career in a private company and ... see more
André Nardy, Rubens Famá, José Arnoldo de Hoyos Guevara, Adriano Mussa
ABSTRACT In this article, we analyze the occurrence of abnormal returns and volume for stocks added to Ibovespa between 2004 and 2013 in the context of the index effect, one of the oldest market anomalies reported in finance, using the event study methodo... see more
Franciele Inês Reis Kunkel, Kelmara Mendes Vieira, Ani Caroline Grigion Potrich
ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the causes and consequences of debt in the credit card through behavioral factors. A research with 1,831 credit card clients in Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais and Maranhão has been made by applying questionnaires. Ini... see more
Pedro Guilherme Ribeiro Piccoli, Alceu Souza, Wesley Vieira da Silva, June Alisson Westarb Cruz
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the momentum strategies aiming to verify if the absence of evidence regarding profitability in the Brazilian market can be related to the crashes that such strategies experience during crises, as reported by Daniel and Moskowi... see more
Elaine Cristina Borges, Roy Martelanc
ABSTRACT This study verifies if investment funds returns in Brazil come from fund managers’ ability or just the luck factor. We used the methodology of Fama and French, which concludes for the irrelevance of skill in the United States. To estimate the dis... see more
Alcides Carlos de Araújo, Alessandra de Ávila Montini
ABSTRACT Markowitz and Sharpe’s studies formed the basis of the so-called Modern Portfolio Theory. Over the years, their papers were reviewed and alternative measures for portfolios optimization were presented. In view of this fact, there is a need to eva... see more
Daniel Reed Bergmann, José Roberto Securato, José Roberto Ferreira Savoia, Eduardo Augusto do Rosário Contani
ABSTRACT The Copula Theory was used to analyze contagion among the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and European Union stock markets with the U.S. Equity Market. The market indexes used for the period between January 01, 2005 and February 27, 2010 a... see more
Selene de Souza Siqueira Soares, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes
ABSTRACT The paper is dedicated to the study of transactions governances adopted by fuel distributors with retailers stations, according to the theoretical approach of the New Institutional Economics. The work conducted field interviews with 25 distributi... see more
Fernando Oliveira Tavares, Luís Pacheco, Emanuel Ferreira Almeida
ABSTRACT In this article, the purpose is to know and analyze the more used products and financing forms by small and medium companies in the district of Porto, in Portugal. The aim is also to realize the acceptability and the propensity for use of alterna... see more