PURPOSE: Mental disorders are a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability, and can be extremely costly at both individual and community level. Social capital, (SC) defined as an individual's social ...

When estimating a firm's cost of equity for valuation and other purposes in emerging markets without (or with only partial) capital market integration, many practitioners include a premium for country risk. In principle, ...

In the context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), the present study investigates the significance of financial leverage on the development of systematic risk. Based on Brazilian data, we tested the beta unleveraged ...

The systematic treatment of uncertainties associated with forest production processes allows the establishment of technical and managerial strategies to mitigate the risk inherent in the application of capital demanded in ...

This paper researches the sources of stock market risk influencing the pricing of 921 Latin American stocks and computes their corresponding opportunity cost (COE) over the period 1997–2004 by firm and sector. Running an ...

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi, face ao grau de integração da economia brasileira, testar o poder explicativo do Modelo Goldman Sachs sobre os retornos esperados por um investidor estrangeiro no mercado nacional, ao ...

Esta tese tem por objetivo examinar os fatores que direcionam o processo decisório de estrutura de capital/investimento do banco e avaliar a efetividade da intervenção regulatória no Brasil. O trabalho está divido em três ...

Esta investigación sistematiza los conceptos y metodologías en la determinación del costo de capital de una compañía de empresarios loretanos, que es un costo muy útil para evaluar proyectos o para valorizar el capital ...