Factores determinantes do valor da empresa no mercado de capitais: evidência empírica para o PSI 20

El principal finalidad de la presente comunicación se traduce en el análisis del efecto de los indicadores de desempeño empresarial en la explicación del precio de las acciones que integran el principal índice bursátil de la Euronext Lisboa, el PSI 20. Para tal, recurrimos a un análisis fundamental, habiendo dividido los indicadores de desempeño empresarial en dos grupos, un con un cariz económico-financiero otro con un cariz bursátil. Utilizando una muestra de 17 empresas, los resultados son obtenidos a través de la aplicación del método OLS y reportan a 31 de Diciembre de 2007. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren que los indicadores de desempeño empresarial se presentan susceptibles de explicar el precio de mercado de las acciones de las empresas que integran el PSI 20. Se destaca el efecto significativamente positivo del resultado líquido y del valor contable y el efecto significativamente negativo del cash-flow. Los resultados obtenidos sugieren la existencia de una expectativa positiva relativamente al desempeño futuro de las empresas que integran el PSI 20.

Evidência empírica dos factores explicativos dos dividendos distribuídos pelas empresas do PSI 20

La presente comunicación tiene como objetivo central el análisis de los factores explicativos de la política de dividendos de las empresas que integran el principal índice bursátil del mercado de capitales portugués, el PSI 20. Con ese designio, utilizamos un conjunto de informaciones económicas y financieras de las empresas no financieras para explicar los dividendos por acción distribuidos en el período temporal comprendido por los años de 2005 a 2009. Los resultados logrados en el estudio empírico sugieren que el resultado líquido, los dividendos por acción distribuidos en el ejercicio económico anterior y el crecimiento de las ventas presentan un efecto positivo y estadísticamente significativo en la explicación de los dividendos por acción distribuidos en un determinado ejercicio económico. Sugieren todavía que el modelo desarrollado por Lintner (1956) se presenta válido para explicar la política de dividendos de las empresas de lo PSI 20.

Evidência empírica dos factores explicativos dos dividendos distribuidos pelas empresas do PSI 20

La presente comunicación tiene como objetivo central el análisis de los factores explicativos de la política de dividendos de las empresas que integran el principal índice bursátil del mercado de capitales portugués, el PSI 20. Con ese designio, utilizamos un conjunto de informaciones económicas y financieras de las empresas no financieras para explicar los dividendos por acción distribuidos en el período temporal comprendido por los años de 2005 a 2009. Los resultados logrados en el estudio empírico sugieren que el resultado líquido, los dividendos por acción distribuidos en el ejercicio económico anterior y el crecimiento de las ventas presentan un efecto positivo y estadísticamente significativo en la explicación de los dividendos por acción distribuidos en un determinado ejercicio económico. Sugieren todavía que el modelo desarrollado por Lintner (1956) se presenta válido para explicar la política de dividendos de las empresas de lo PSI 20.

Divulgação de informação sobre os ativos intangíveis: evidência empírica nos bancos em Portugal no período 2001-2009.

The main objectives of this investigation is to analyze the disclosure of information about intangible assets during a period of nine years, namely the extension or level, as well as their evolution and possible alterations verified upon them, that derived from the adoption in 2005, of the international norm in order to elaborate the consolidated accounts of banks. Through the verification of the disclosure of intangible assets. Taking into account items from International Accounting Standard (IAS) 38 from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the consolidated financial statements from seventeen banks, presenting consolidated accounts in Portugal uninterruptable between 2001 and 2009 were analyzed. The results obtained through the construction of an index, elaborated from this effected, reveled an average of disclosure of information on intangibles of 0.24 during the period. The level of general disclosure evolved from an average of 0.1940 in 2001 to 0.2778 in the year 2009. The intangibles generated internally had an average of disclosure of 0.1592 and the intangibles acquired had an average value of 0.2927. A growth in the extension of disclosure of intangibles upon the consolidated financial statement of banks during period analyzed, being this growth more accentuated in 2005 and 2006, which correspond to the first years of adoption in Portugal of international norm endorsed by the European Union through the Regalement 1606/2002, of July 19, the designed IASB-UE norms.

The determinants of international equity investment: Do they differ between institutional and noninstitutional investors?

In this paper we investigate whether the determinants of international equity investment differ between investors with different degrees of sophistication. For this purpose, we analyse and compare the determinants of international equity investment of institutional and noninstitutional investors from 20 OECD countries (US not included) in the period 2001-2009. The results show that there are significant differences in the determinants of international equity investment between institutional and noninstitutional investors. In particular, noninstitutional investors tend to exhibit a more pronounced preference for equities of geographical nearby, contiguous and more transparent countries than institutional investors. The preference for more developed equity markets and the contrarian behaviour are also significantly more pronounced for noninstitutional than for institutional investors. These results support the argument that international equity investment of less sophisticated investors is more affected by information costs and familiarity than that of more sophisticated investors. Moreover, business cycles exert an influence on international equity investment decisions of both institutional and noninstitutional investors.

NOVA ANOTAÇÃO SINTÉTICA, NUMA PERSPECTIVA DE DIREITO PÚBLICO, AINDA AO ACÓRDÃO 212/95, DO TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL (PORTUGUÊS), DE 20.04.1995 - O DEVER FUNDAMENTAL DE EXISTIR NA LEI EM VIGOR UMA RESPONSABILIDADE CRIMINAL DAS "PESSOAS COLECTIVAS" (OU "PESSOAS JURÍDICAS") E A CONSTITUIÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA, V.G. O CASO DO ART. 7º DO REGIME GERAL DAS INFRACÇÕES TRIBUTÁRIAS E DO ART. 3.º DO REGIME DAS INFRACÇÕES ANTIECONÓMICAS E CONTRA A SAÚDE PÚBLICA

Resumo: 1 – Sumário do Acórdão do Tribunal Constitucional n.º 212/1995, de 20 de Abril; 2 – Parte principal do Acórdão do Tribunal Constitucional n.º 212/1995, de 20 de Abril: cfr. http://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/acordaos/19950212.html , 18 de Maio de 2012; 3 – Anotação sintética; 3.1 – Introdução à anotação sintética e suas características neste caso concreto; 4 – O RIAECSP (Regime das Infracções Anti-Económicas e Contra a Saúde Pública) e a responsabilidade criminal das pessoas colectivas e equiparadas, prevista no seu art. 3.º; 5 – Societas delinquere non potest?; 6 – Breves traços históricos do brocardo societas delinquere non potest; 7 - Alguns dos marcos relevantes na Doutrina penal portuguesa recente acerca da responsabilidade penal das organizações, entes colectivos, pessoas colectivas, pessoas jurídicas; 8 - Os art.os 12.º/2 e 2.º da CRP e a Responsabilidade Criminal dos Entes Colectivos, pessoas jurídicas; 9 - O art. 29.º/5 da CRP - ou o princípio non bis in idem - e a responsabilidade criminal das organizações, dos entes colectivos, das pessoas colectivas; 10 – Conclusões. § Summary: 1 - Summary Judgment of the Constitutional Court No. 212/1995 of 20 April; 2 - The main part of the Constitutional Court Ruling No. 212/1995 of 20 April: cfr. http://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/acordaos/19950212.html, May 18, 2012; 3 - short annotation; 3.1 - Introduction to synthetic note and its features in this particular case; 4 - The RIAECSP (Status of Anti-Economic Offences and Against Public Health) and the criminal liability of companies and similar persons, provided for in his art. 3; 5 - delinquere Societas non potest ?; 6 - Brief historical traces of societas aphorism delinquere non potest; 7 - Some of the important milestones in recent Portuguese criminal Doctrine about the criminal liability of organizations, public entities, legal persons, legal entities; 8 - art.os 12/2 and 2 of CRP and Criminal Responsibility of loved Collective, legal entities; 9 - Art. 29/5 CRP - or the principle of non bis in idem - and the criminal liability of organizations, collective entities, of legal persons; 10 - Conclusions.

The determinants of international equity and bond investment

The purpose of this research is fourfold. First, to investigate whether the determinants of international equity investment differ between investors with different degrees of information, experience and sophistication. For this purpose, the determinants of international equity investment of institutional and noninstitutional investors from 20 OECD countries, in the period 2001-2009, were analysed and compared. The results show that there are significant differences in the determinants of international equity investment between institutional and noninstitutional investors. Particularly, noninstitutional investors exhibit a more pronounced preference for equities of geographical nearby, contiguous and more transparent countries than institutional investors, suggesting that the effect of information costs and familiarity on international equity investment is stronger for less informed, experienced and sophisticated investors. Moreover, the preference for more developed equity markets and the contrarian behaviour are more severe for noninstitutional investors. Hence, the heterogeneity of institutional and noninstitutional investors in international equity investment is not negligible and therefore should be taken into account. Second, to investigate whether the determinants of international bond investment differ between investors with different degrees of information, experience and sophistication. For this purpose, the determinants of international bond investment of institutional and noninstitutional investors from 20 OECD countries, in the period 2001-2009, were analysed and compared. The results show that there are few significant differences in the determinants of international bond investment between institutional and noninstitutional investors. Particularly, the preference for bonds of more transparent countries and the return chasing behaviour are more pronounced for noninstitutional investors, whereas the preference for bonds with lower risk diversification potential is more pronounced for institutional investors. Hence, not only the results for international bond investment do not allow to support (or reject) the argument that information costs and familiarity are more important for less informed, experienced and sophisticated investors, but also they are contrary to the idea that financial variables, namely return and risk diversification, are more important for more informed, experienced and sophisticated investors. Third, to investigate whether the determinants of international equity investment differ from the determinants of international bond investment. For this purpose, the determinants of both international equity and bond investment of institutional and noninstitutional investors from 20 OECD countries, in the period 2001-2009, were analysed and compared. The results show that, although the effect of information costs on international equity investment tends to be stronger than on international bond investment, the differences between assets are not usually statistically significant, especially when the influence of financial variables is taken into account. Hence, it is not possible to conclude that international equity investment is much more information intensive than international bond investment, as suggested by Gehrig (1993) and Portes, Rey and Oh (2001), among others. Fourth, to investigate whether the flight to quality phenomenon is also observable in international investment and whether the flight to quality phenomenon is more pronounced for more sophisticated than for less sophisticated investors. For this purpose, a two-factor and three-factor ANOVA models, respectively, were applied to the international equity and bond investment of institutional and noninstitutional investors from 20 OECD countries in the period 2001-2009. The results suggest that the flight to quality phenomenon is also observable in international investment, as a change from business cycle of expansion to recession causes investors to significantly decrease the average weight invested in more risky assets (equities) and increase the average weight invested in less risky assets (bonds). The results also show that the variation on the average weight assigned to each type of asset, due to changes in business cycles, is significantly stronger for institutional investors than for noninstitutional investors, thereby suggesting that the flight to quality phenomenon is more pronounced for more sophisticated than for less sophisticated investors.