The diversity of diversity: further methodological considerations on the use of the concept in cultural economics

The implications of diversity still raise confusion in the cultural debate. We address them from both a formal and conceptual viewpoints, putting in check the validity of some arguments. We conclude that: measuring diversity demands key decisions and careful statistical procedures; ignorance on optimal diversity levels and on ways to generate them is widespread in the cultural field; there is no support for cultural diversity as something associated to fair economic and political systems; restriction to sheer economics requires the establishment of links between diversity and measurable properties – something rather incipient. Diversity, as a social choice, should be distinguished from it as an economic value.

Do insiders get abnormal returns? : event studies on the trades of insiders of the firms with differentiated corporate governance of the São Paulo stock exchange

The subject insider trading is controversial. This paper presents series of event studies carried through on the trades with stocks of the firm carried by insiders with the objective to detect abnormal returns, based on the access to privileged information. The sample is composed by trades performed by insiders of the companies with stocks negotiated in the São Paulo Stock Exchange, that are classified as firms with differentiated corporate governance. Indication that trades performed by insiders resulted in abnormal returns compared to the statistically significant expected ones, as in the purchases of common shares; or for selling of preferred stocks.

Motivação e controle do analista de finanças e controle externo do Tribunal de Contas da União sobre seu trabalho

The Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) is the agency that assists the BraziIian National Congress in the externaI controI of the PubIic Adrninistration. The AnaIyst of Finance and ExternaI ControI is the professionaI inside TCU that performs its primary activities. This study aims to investigate how intrinsically motivating is his work. It is supposed that the AnaIyst' s generic professionaI education and TCU' s procedures Iimit his controI on the work, with negative motivation impact. This controI presents two dimensions: the first one is reIative to technicaI knowIedge; the second one is reIative to the controI on the results of the work.