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Professor José Fajardo of FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) was awarded by the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE) for his paper ?Barrier Style Contracts under Lévy Processes: an Alternative Approach?. The paper took second place in the ?Finance? category, which honors the best research in the field with...
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FGV?s São Paulo Law School has opened registration for lato sensu graduate courses and short courses at GVlaw, the school?s specialization and continuing education department. The programs offered include a new course on Law in Complex Business Structures, along with eleven other two-year specialization programs: Business Law; Tax Law; Contract...
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After falling 0.3 percent in November, the Leading Job Market Indicator (IAEmp), calculated by FGV?s Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE), rose 2 percent in December, reaching 76 points. Although historically this number is still extremely low, these results confirm the positive trend observed at the end of 2014, after a period of sharp...
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On Thursday, January 8, Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida will hold a book launch at the University of Lisbon Law School for her book, Mercosul ? Desafios para a Implementação do Direito e Exemplos do Brasil (Mercosur: Challenges to Implementation of the Law and Examples from Brazil). The book has been published in both Brazil and Portugal...
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FGV professor and alumnus Afonso Arinos de Mello Franco Neto (´86) of the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) has been named secretary for economic policy. Arinos will serve at the finance ministry, which is led by another FGV alumnus and former professor, Joaquim Levy.Arinos´s nomination was...
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Inflation as measured by Brazil´s IPC-S index on December 31 was registered at 0.75%, a 0.01 percentage point drop from the previous week´s rate, according to data gathered by the Brazilian Economic Institute at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/IBRE). With these results, the cumulative index rose 6.87% between January and December 2014. In the...
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Patrick Behr, professor at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration at Fundação Getulio Vargas, had two papers accepted and presented at the American Finance Association (AFA) conference at the beginning of this month. The conference, which takes place every January in the United States, is the most prestigious and competitive...
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Professors Lucas Jóver Maestri and Humberto Luiz Ataide Moreira of the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) were rewarded first and second place, respectively, in the Economic Theory category of the bi-annual prize granted by the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE).Maestri and his co-authors, Daniel...
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Mariana Pargendler, professor at FGV's São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP), presented a paper on corporate governance at UCLA School of Law in California, in late January. Entitled The Corporate Governance Obsession, the paper seeks to understand the reasons behind the growing interest in the topic of corporate governance today.The rise of...
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In the second 2015 edition of The Brazilian Economy Newsletter, FGV Energy adopts an economic view on tariff realism, a recurring issue in recent months for the electric power sector.The entrance of the new Finance Minister, Joaquim Levy, has been a major turning point in various economic affairs of the country. Levy recently brought the tariff...
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On March 3, FGV's São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/Eaesp) will hold the seminar Trends and Prospects for the Retail Market in 2015. The event will present very important issues for retailers, such as technological innovations and the future of retail, in addition to an overview of economic, political and technological trends for...
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The General Price Index - Market (IGP-M) calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) recorded a downturn in the second preview of February, with a 0.16% change (compared to the 0.55% change in the previous month). This index provides a reference for the adjustment of contracts, including rental contracts. The second ten-day...
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Professor Eduardo Jordão was at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford (England), last February 11, to present and discuss an article he wrote in collaboration with Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University. The article was published in 2014 in the Administrative Law Review and it analyzes the judicial control of public...
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Part of the cultural and educational complex of Fundação Getulio Vargas, the Oscar Niemeyer Tower and the Cultural Center were featured in Finestra magazine, one of the most important Brazilian publications on architecture and design. To read the whole article, in Portuguese, please...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas' program with the University of Paris - Sorbonne opened its selection process for undergraduate students. Each year, two students of the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/Ebape) are selected to study for a month and a half, at the ...
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The Leading Indicator of Employment (IAEmp), calculated by FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics, (FGV/Ibre), decreased 2.4% in January 2015 (74.2 points), after a 2% increase in December 2014. The result raises the question of whether the recovery sketched from October will continue and signals a downturn in the labor market for the beginning...
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The Ifo/FGV indicator of Economic Climate in Latin America (ICE) - developed in partnership between the German Ifo Institute and FGV's Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/Ibre), with data collected from the Ifo World Economic Survey ( WES) - decreased by 6.3%. This decline is a result of the deterioration of both assessments regarding the...
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The Applied Legal Research Center (CPJA) at FGV's São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) held last Monday, February 9, the second workshop of the study Challenges for the regulation of Permanent Urban Preservation Areas. Coordinated by Nelson Novaes Pedroso Jr., from CPJA, and by the biologist and environmental consultant, Sandra Steinmetz, this...
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Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, professor at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio), who is spending a sabbatical year at Fudan University in Shanghai, participated in a Consultation of Foreign Experts meeting, in Beijing. Evandro was the only Brazilian and one of the 60 foreign experts invited by the Chinese government to share their...
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The General Price Index - Market (IGP-M) calculated by the Brazilian Institute of Economics (FGV/IBRE) recorded a 0.09% change in the first preview of February. In the same calculation period of the previous month, the change was 0.29%. This analysis included the interval between January 21 and 31.The Broad Producer Price Index (IPA) decreased...
