Studies on efficiency achieved greater relevance in organisations within an open market framework, which in Brazil began around 1990. The objective of this paper, applying the data envelopment analysis methodology, is to ...

This research explicits the ideological character of the speeches and pratices on brazilian's banks, confronting the bank workers' speech with empirical datas about the real conditions of work in these business. The ...

Central Bank supervision is one of the pillars of capital regulation. Based on a unique database built using supervision data from the Central Bank of Brazil, we evaluate the effectiveness of the Central Bank's supervision ...

This paper is part of a larger World Bank project on banking supervision in some Latin American countries. Taking into account the framework applied to the larger project, the paper describes the present situation of banking ...

This paper sets out to analyse the determinants of recent foreign bank investments in the Brazilian retail banking market and the strategies of the major European banks in Brazil. Since the recent wave of banking ...

Soil seed banks are considered an important mechanism for natural regeneration in tropical forest ecosystems. This paper investigated the soil seed bank in two semideciduous seasonal tropical forest fragments with different ...