Investment in distressed assets, while relatively mature in developed markets, has become more and more common in Brazil in a context of a lingering economic downturn, offering interesting but risky opportunities to domestic ...

This paper estimates the effects of economic downturns on religious conversion. We exploit the Brazilian trade liberalization to study the effects of local economic shocks on affiliation to Pentecostal Evangelicalism across ...

This paper proposes a new measure for worldwide economic distress, which can bedescribed as the proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) affected by countrylevel financial crises. It proves that this measure has the ...

This paper studies the Bankruptcy Law in Latin America, focusing on the Brazilian reform. We start with a review of the international literature and its evolution on this subject. Next, we examine the economic incentives ...

Chile ha vivido un milagro económico en las décadas recientes. Se redujo la desigualdad de in-greso, creció el ingreso per cápita y disminuyó sustancialmente la pobreza. En el año 2019 se evidenció un malestar de importantes ...

This research aims to analyze the work and subjectivity of the professor that works at the postgraduate program of UNESP, comprising the relationships between distress and delight, compliance and strangeness regarding the ...

This research aimed to investigate how students in the Initial Years of Ensino Fundamental feel in the pandemic context. The objectives were to identify the frequency of situations in which there are signs of emotional ...