Detecting patterns of the spinoff decision of companies and accessing the determination of the abnormal returns

This paper examines value created through spinoffs over a period from 2002-2010. The net debt to average share price ratio and the debt to asset ratio of a company impacts the decision for this restructuring process statistically significant. The announcement of a spinoff yields abnormal returns (AR) for the stockholders of the parent. The relative size of the spin and the financial leverage correlated with the AR positively, whereas the net debt per share and the return on asset negatively. Therefore, no direct wealth transfer from the debt holders of a company to the equity holders can be derived from these results.

Income and bargaining effects on education and health

In this paper, we examine the impacts of the reform in the rural pension system in Brazil in 1991 on schooling and health indicators. In addition, we use the reform to investigate the validity of the unitary model of household allocation by testing if there were uneven impacts on those indicators depending on the gender of the recipient. The main conclusion of the paper is that the reform had significantly positive effects on the outcomes of interest, especially on those co-residing with a male pensioner, indicating that the unitary model is not a well-specified framework to understand family allocation decisions. The highest impacts were on school attendance for boys, literacy for girls and illness for middle-age people. We explore a collective model as defined by Chiappori (1992) as one possible alternative representation for the decision-making process of the poor rural Brazilian families. In the cooperative Nash equilibrium, the reform effects can be divided into two pieces: a direct income effect and bargaining power effect. The data support the existence of these two different effects

Homens e mulheres na EMERJ: percepções de gênero dos “concurseiros”

Este trabalho tem como objetivo revelar as percepções de gênero dos “concurseiros” e os obstáculos enfrentados por eles até a aprovação no concurso público pretendido. Para que tal análise pudesse ser elaborada, foram usados trechos de narrativas realizadas em grupos focais com alunos do Curso de Especialização em Direito para a Carreira da Magistratura, ministrado na Escola de Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ). Este artigo se desenvolve a partir da pesquisa teórica sobre profissionalismo e gênero, e posteriormente, com a análise das experiências pessoais de cada aluno.