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Identifying volatility risk premia from fixed income Asian options
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2009-04)
Fixed income options are frequently adopted by companies to hedge interest rate risk. Their payoff dependence on the cumulative short-term rate makes them particularly informative about interest rate volatility risk. Based ...
Mutual fund managers stock preferences in Latin America
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2012-09)
In this paper, we observe the preferential characteristics of mutual fund managers when investing in Latin America. The main objective was checking the hypothesis that foreign managers prefer companies with characteristics ...
Confirmation bias in individual-level perceptions of psychic distance: an experimental investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2015-11)
In this article we draw from social cognition theory to explore the influence of confirmation bias on perceptions of psychic distance. Despite the prominence of psychic distance, and other forms of distance, as potential ...
Old theories, 'New' technologies: understanding knowledge sharing and learning in Brazilian software development companies
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2015-02)
Context: New technologies such as social networks, wikis, blogs and other social software enable collaborative work and are important facilitators of the learning process. They provide a simple mechanism for people to ...
O isomorfismo nos relatórios de sustentabilidade: uma análise das empresas brasileiras que compõem o Dow Jones Sustainability Index
(Univ Nove Julho, 2015-08)
A competição entre as organizações pode ser vista tanto na busca por recursos e consumidores, quanto por legitimidade institucional, o que pode tornar as práticas organizacionais cada vez mais homogêneas ou isomórficas. ...
Examining the implementation of a European Patent Management system in Brazil from an Actor-Network Theory perspective
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)
Drawing upon the Brazilian experience, this article aims at examining some of the key issues associated with e-government technical cooperation programs designed to enhance the service provision of Patent Offices in ...
The use of mobile technology in management and risk control in the supply chain: the case of a Brazilian beef chain
(Igi Publ, 2014-03)
The use of mobile technologies is important for Supply Chain Management (SCM) because these technologies allow for a ubiquitous flow of information, higher agility and risk reduction in supply chains. In food markets, these ...
Working within hyphen-spaces in ethnographic research: implications for research identities and practice
(Sage Publications Inc, 2013-07)
Ethnographers often find themselves wrestling with choices about their relationship with respondents: choices experienced by researchers engaged in many other methodologies. This article examines the agentic and political ...
Learning-by-employing: the value of commitment under uncertainty
(Univ Chicago Press, 2016-07)
We analyze commitment to employment in an environment in which an infinitely lived firm faces a sequence of finitely lived workers who differ in their ability. A worker's ability is initially unknown, and a worker's effort ...
How cabinet size and legislative control shape the strength of transparency laws
(Wiley, 2015-01)
Prevailing thinking surrounding the politics of secrecy and transparency is biased by assumptions regarding single-party and small coalition governments. Here, the politics of secrecy dominates: Leaders delay or resist ...