Changes in the influence of board characterisitcs on corporate results due to the recent global financial crisis

The main purpose of this study is to analyse the changes caused by the global financial crisis on the influence of board characteristics on corporate results, in terms of corporate performance, corporate risk-taking, and earnings management. Sample comprises S&P 500 listed firms during 2002-2008. This study reveals that the environmental conditions call for different behaviour from directors to fulfil their responsibilities and suggests changes in normative and voluntary guidelines for improving good practices in the boardroom.

Bilateral semidirect product decompositions of transformation monoids

In this paper we consider the monoid OR(n) of all full transformations on a chain with n elements that preserve or reverse the orientation, as well as its submonoids OD(n) of all order-preserving or order-reversing elements, OP(n) of all orientation-preserving elements and O(n) of all order-preserving elements. By making use of some well known presentations, we show that each of these four monoids is a quotient of a bilateral semidirectproduct of two of its remarkable submonoids.

O impacto da entrada das agências de rating nos países emergentes: estudo comparativo Brasil/Angola

Mestrado em Contabilidade e Gestão das Instituições Financeiras

Caracterização do potencial eólico urbano: o caso de Lisboa

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização em Edificações

100 Años de desarrollo de la teoría financiera : situación actual y previsible evolución tras la crisis : resumen de la ponencia

"Las Finanzas, como disciplina académica, nacen a caballo entre los siglos XIX y XX. Sin duda el importante desarrollo industrial de la época y la necesidad de empresas de mayores dimensiones llevaron a un creciente interés por las concentraciones empresariales como fusiones y adquisiciones. También aumentó el interés por los mercados donde se financiaban estas empresas cada vez mayores. Y esto, aunque sucedía en diversas partes del mundo, estaba ocurriendo de forma especial en Estados Unidos, de manera que allí fue donde nacieron las finanzas, y donde se han seguido desarrollando. De esta manera, desde un comienzo, las finanzas tienen un claro sello anglosajón." [introdução]

Da embalagem à confiança: viagem ao maravilhoso mundo das marcas próprias

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

Spectral and weak polynomial completeness for the product of nonsingular matrices

Let F be a field with at least four elements. In this paper, we identify all the pairs (A, B) of n x n nonsingular matrices over F, satisfying the following property: for every monic polynomial f (x) = x(n) + a(n-1)x(n-1) +... + a(1)x + a(0) over F, with a root in F and a(0) = (-1)(n) det(AB), there are nonsingular matrices X, Y is an element of F-nxn such that XAX(-1)Y BY-1 has characteristic polynomial f (x).