This dissertation is composed of three essays related to Financial Architecture. The first essay, analysed in the first chapter of the thesis, contributes to the literature on Efficient Market Hypothesis and in particular in understanding several issues associated with how prices are determined for individual stocks. The chapter, in particular, provides further evidence of price and volume effects associated with index compositional changes by analysing the inclusions (exclusions) from the French CAC40 and SBF120 indices, as well as the FTSE100. I find evidence supporting the price pressure hypothesis associated with index fund rebalancing, but weak or no evidence for the imperfect substitution, liquidity and information hypotheses. The results improve on recent evidence from the S&P500 index. The evidence for the FTSE100 additions shows, in particular, that markets learn about an imminent inclusion and incorporate this information into prices, even before the announcement date. The other two essays of this thesis relate to Corporate Governance issues. Chapters 2 and 3, in particular, analyze some aspects of two corporate governance mechanisms: ownership concentration and managerial labour market. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the evolution of control in listed Slovenian corporations and evaluates the impact of the current changes in ownership on firm performance. Ownership and control has been concentrating in most transition countries. This consolidation of control introduces changes in the power distribution within privatised firms and, most importantly, redirects the corporate governance problem to a conflict between large and small shareholders. The chapter evaluate the ownership changes in Slovenian privatised firms through an analysis of stock price reactions to the entrance of a new blockholder (the shared benefits of control) and through an estimation of the premiums paid for large blocks (the private benefits of control). It provides evidence and discuss the reasons for the failures of the privatization investment funds in implementing control over firm managers and in promoting the restructuring of firms in the first post-privatization years. Chapter 3 concentrates on one specific aspect of the managerial labour market: monetary remuneration schemes. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the interconnection between pay and corporate governance approaches with respect to the different rules found across European legal systems. The research data on reported pay practices for 2001 among FTSE Eurotop300 companies reveal a reliance on performance-based pay generally and a somewhat variable adoption of share options programs and other equity-based incentive contracts, which generate difficulties in dispersed ownership systems. Furthermore, on the basis of the regulation on executive remuneration disclosure discussed in this chapter and on the basis of the disclosure practices resulting from the data collected for the FTSE Eurotop300 constituents, I construct some disclosure indicators and analyse empirically how country and firm characteristics affect remuneration disclosure.

This article analyzes to what extend new knowledge and ignorance-structures within financial markets challenge basic assumptions in scientific discourse. ‘Ignorance’ is seen as an inherent part of governance-regimes. It is argued that the self-fulfilling prophecy of a bank run as the dominant metaphor for systemic risks is insufficient to capture today’s dynamics and categorical changes. Therefore, the paper seeks to show that ‘science’ has not sufficiently attempted to fully come to terms with issues of uncertainty and self-reference.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliel Felix de Lima.pdf: 1438354 bytes, checksum: e8134cd965f6f20c6c018394074a3a7f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-24 / This Dissertation seeks to develop a discussion of foreign exchange in Brazil in the post - 2008 crisis period, drawing attention to the centrality of the exchange rate as an instrument for promoting economic growth and a lack of instruments available to the Brazilian central Bank to avoid both excessive appreciation in moments of high international liquidity cycle as overshooting exchange in times of flight to quality. It will be argued that the current international financial architecture that is characterized by deregulation and liberalization of markets, currencies are treated as highly liquid financial assets judged by the markets according to the criterion of risk and return. Therefore, the dynamics of the stocks of wealth and the logic of portfolio management of economic agents are critical for determining the exchange rate at the expense of economic fundamentals. While the exchange rate is not neutral, that is, have impacts on the performance of the real economy, its determination is predominantly financial / A presente dissertação busca desenvolver uma discussão sobre câmbio no Brasil no período pós-crise de 2008, chamando a atenção para a centralidade da taxa de câmbio como instrumento para a promoção do crescimento econômico e da insuficiência dos instrumentos à disposição banco central brasileiro para evitar tanto valorização excessiva nos momentos de alta no ciclo internacional de liquidez quanto overshooting cambial em momentos de fuga para a qualidade. Será discutido que na atual arquitetura financeira internacional que se caracteriza pela desregulamentação e liberalização dos mercados, as moedas são tratadas como ativos financeiros de alta liquidez julgados pelos mercados segundo o critério de risco e retorno. Diante disso, a dinâmica dos estoques de riqueza e a lógica da gestão de portfólios dos agentes econômicos são fundamentais para a determinação da taxa de câmbio em detrimento dos fundamentos econômicos. Ao mesmo tempo em que a taxa de câmbio é não neutra, isto é, tem impactos no desempenho da economia real, sua determinação é predominantemente financeira

La présente thèse analyse la relation entre le régime politique et le système financier. Plus précisément, les investigations empiriques menées dans le cadre de cette thèse visent à étudier le rôle de la démocratie dans le développement et la structure des systèmes financiers. Pour cela, nous procédons en trois étapes. Dans un premier temps, nous examinons l’impact de l’événement de la transition démocratique sur le développement du secteur financier des pays qui sont passés vers un régime démocratique. Ainsi, après avoir défini ce qu’on entend par un système financier développé et mis en évidence les facteurs qui déterminent son évolution, nous montrons que la transition vers un régime démocratique accroît la taille du système financier à moyen et long terme. En revanche, cette dernière n’aura pas d’effet à court terme (chapitre 1). Puis, dans un second temps, nous nous intéressons aux facteurs qui conditionnent l’efficacité de ce régime politique. En effet, étant donné que les échanges d’arguments théoriques témoignent d’un manque de consensus autour de la relation entre la démocratie et le développement, il nous semble que cette question peut s’appréhender autrement à travers la prise en compte du rôle du cadre institutionnel dans l’analyse de cette relation (chapitre 2). Ainsi, nous montrons que la démocratie contribuerait au développement du secteur financier en présence de bonnes institutions, tandis qu’elle briderait son évolution lorsque la qualité des institutions se trouve en deçà d’un certain seuil. Enfin, nous tentons d’élargir la littérature existante en abordant la question du rôle de la démocratie dans l’explication de l’architecture des systèmes financiers (chapitre 3). Après avoir passé en revue les principaux facteurs qui influencent la forme du système financier, nous montrons que le régime politique constitue un facteur déterminant de la structure financière des économies émergentes. Plus précisément, nous trouvons que plus de démocratie réduit la part des financements intermédiés et élargit la place des marchés boursiers. / This thesis analyzes the relationship between the political regime and the financial system. Specifically, the empirical research conducted throughout this thesis aims to study the role of democracy in the development and structure of financial systems. To this end, we proceed in three steps. First, we examine the impact of the event of the democratic transition in the financial development of the countries that have moved towards democracy. Thus, having defined what is meant by a developed financial system and highlighted the factors that determine its evolution, we show that the transition to a democratic regime increases the size of the financial system in the medium and long term. However, it will have no short-term effect (chapter 1). In a second step, we focus on the factors that influence the effectiveness of this political regime. Indeed, since the exchange of theoretical arguments reflect a lack of consensus on the relationship between democracy and development, it seems important to otherwise understand this issue through the consideration of the role of the institutional environment in the analysis of this relationship (chapter 2). Thus, we show that democracy contributes to the development of the financial sector in the presence of good institutions while it hinders its development where institutional quality is below a certain threshold. Finally, we try to extend the existing literature by questioning the role of democracy in the explanation of the financial system architecture (chapter 3). Having reviewed the main factors influencing the shape of the financial system, we show that the political system is a determining factor in the financial structure of emerging economies. More precisely, we find that further democracy reduces the share of intermediated financing and expands the role of stock markets.

Orientador: Luis Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T21:10:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Garlipp_JoseRubensDamas_D.pdf: 3722319 bytes, checksum: 29fd1624c440ba99a81f8b911b680810 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Em um esforço para apanhar o substrato do capitalismo contemporâneo, esta tese busca identificar as formas como o desaparecimento das regras e das fronteiras deixa o capital entregue às suas próprias leis de movimento. Nesse sentido, propõe que um quadro aproximativo do capitalismo contemporâneo pode ser desenhado por meio do conceito de economia desregrada (INTRODUÇÃO). O argumento explorado é o de que a construção de circuitos internacionais produtivos e, principalmente, financeiros de valorização do capital responde pelo desmantelamento do 'padrão¿ global de desenvolvimento herdado do pós-guerra. Assim é que a financeirização da riqueza, exponenciada pelas inovações dos instrumentos financeiros e desregulação dos mercados que caracterizam as políticas econômicas ocidentais das últimas décadas, ao tempo em que preside a lógica de valorização do capital, não faz mais que tornar claro o objetivo precípuo do capitalismo: a expansão da riqueza abstrata. Esta característica central e distintiva do capitalismo é, sob perspectivas teóricas distintas, sublinhada por Marx, Keynes e Polanyi, autores que analisam os fundamentos da riqueza capitalista e recusam a advocacia clássica acerca da capacidade de auto-regulação do mercado. Por conta disso, defendemos que o recurso às suas contribuições (CAPÍTULOS I, II e III, respectivamente) permite elencar os elementos teóricos que consideramos basilares para se situar a temática das transformações recentes no interior de uma lógica imanente à economia desregrada, de modo que a história econômica do capitalismo no último quarto do século XX é a de um mundo que perde as suas referências e resvala para a instabilidade e crises recorrentes, na exata medida em que se espraia o desaparecimento das regras e das fronteiras que disciplinam o capital. É no interior dessa perspectiva analítica e teórica que procuramos mapear as falhas estruturais do sistema erigido em Bretton Woods, cuja arquitetura institucional responde, em grande parte, pelo arranjo societário desde o segundo pós-guerra até a deflagração da crise do consenso keynesiano (CAPÍTULO IV). Igualmente, são apreciadas as transformações que ocorrem na seqüência da ruptura do sistema de Bretton Woods, com vistas a apreendermos as determinações mais importantes das novas tensões que se desdobram até a crise atual (CAPÍTULO V), com o que tratamos dos experimentos de coordenação que marcaram o último quarto do século XX com o intuito de assinalar que, desde aquela ruptura, o sistema encontra-se sob a égide de uma coordenação sem regras. A sucessão de crises financeiras que então se instala torna explícita a exacerbação da tendência à instabilidade intrínseca da economia desregrada. Depois de abordadas algumas das contribuições recentes da literatura econômica sobre as crises financeiras, identificamos, nas propostas de reordenamento da arquitetura financeira internacional filiadas ao pensamento convencional, a busca dos mesmos princípios baseados na auto-regulação, em contraste com as propostas que partem do reconhecimento daquela instabilidade. Na seqüência, apontamos os vetores que a instituição de uma 'nova arquitetura financeira internacional¿ poderia comportar, não sem antes destacar a presença de importantes constrangimentos impostos por uma realidade marcada pela supremacia das finanças liberalizadas e desreguladas. Os determinantes de uma tal realidade, segundo entendemos (CONCLUSÃO), estão presentes em Marx, Keynes e Polanyi, cujas contribuições fornecem os elementos que permitem desenhar um quadro aproximativo do capitalismo contemporâneo, quadro esse cuja expressão mais acabada, conforme a tese desenvolvida, é a economia desregrada / Abstract: In an effort to pick the substratum of the contemporary capitalism, this thesis intends to identify the ways how the disappearance of the rules and of the borders leaves the capital given to their own movement laws. In that sense, it proposes that an approximate picture of the contemporary capitalism can be drawn through the concept of de-ruled economy (Introduction). The explored argument is what the construction of productive international circuits and, mainly, financial of capital valorization answers for the dismantle of the global 'pattern' of development inherited from the postwar period. So that the financial wealth, exacerbated by both the innovations of the financial instruments and the deregulation of the markets that characterize the economic policies in last decades, at the time in that it presides the capital valorization logic, it doesn't do more than to turn clear the capitalism prime objective: the expansion of the abstract wealth.This central and distinctive characteristic of the capitalism is, under different theoretical perspectives, underlined by Marx, Keynes and Polanyi, authors that analyze the foundations of the capitalist wealth and they refuse the classic legal profession concerning the market self-regulation capacity. Due to that, we defended that the resource to their contributions (respectively, Chapters I, II and III) it allows recovering the theoretical elements that we considered basic to place the theme of the recent transformations inside an immanent logic to the de-ruled economy, so that the economical history of the capitalism in the last room of the century XX is the one of a world that loses their references and it slides for the instability and appealing crises, in the exact measure in that it overflows the disappearance of the rules and of the borders that discipline the capital. It is inside that analytical and theoretical perspective that we tried to map the structural flaws of the system erected in Bretton Woods, whose institutional architecture answers, largely, for the social arrangement from the second postwar to the explosion of the keynesian consensus crisis (Chapter IV).Equally, we appreciated the transformations that happen in the sequence of the rupture of Bretton Woods system, with intention of apprehend the most important determinations of the new tensions that are unfolded until the current crisis (Chapter V), with what we treated of the coordination experiments that marked the last room of the century XX with the intention of marking that, from that rupture, the system is under the aegis of a de-ruled coordination. The recurrence of financial crises that then is installed turns explicit the exacerbation of the de-ruled economy intrinsic instability tendency. After having approached some of the recent contributions of the economic literature on the financial crises, we identified, in the proposals of reordering the international financial architecture adopted to the canonical thought, the search of the same principles based on the self-regulation, in contrast with the proposals that leave of the recognition of that instability. Then, we pointed the vectors that the institution of a 'new international financial architecture' it could hold, not without before to detach the presence of important constraints imposed by a reality marked by the supremacy of the liberalized and deregulated finances.The determinant of a such reality, as we understood (Conclusion), are present in Marx, Keynes and Polanyi, whose contributions supply the elements that allow to draw an approximate picture of the contemporary capitalism, that whose accurate expression is, according to the developed thesis, the de-ruled economy / Doutorado / Teoria Economica / Doutor em Ciências Econômicas

This dissertation is composed of three essays related to Financial Architecture. <p><p>The first essay, analysed in the first chapter of the thesis, contributes to the literature on Efficient Market Hypothesis and in particular in understanding several issues associated with how prices are determined for individual stocks. The chapter, in particular, provides further evidence of price and volume effects associated with index compositional changes by analysing the inclusions (exclusions) from the French CAC40 and SBF120 indices, as well as the FTSE100. I find evidence supporting the price pressure hypothesis associated with index fund rebalancing, but weak or no evidence for the imperfect substitution, liquidity and information hypotheses. The results improve on recent evidence from the S&P500 index. The evidence for the FTSE100 additions shows, in particular, that markets learn about an imminent inclusion and incorporate this information into prices, even before the announcement date.<p><p>The other two essays of this thesis relate to Corporate Governance issues. Chapters 2 and 3, in particular, analyze some aspects of two corporate governance mechanisms: ownership concentration and managerial labour market. <p>Chapter 2 provides an overview of the evolution of control in listed Slovenian corporations and evaluates the impact of the current changes in ownership on firm performance. Ownership and control has been concentrating in most transition countries. This consolidation of control introduces changes in the power distribution within privatised firms and, most importantly, redirects the corporate governance problem to a conflict between large and small shareholders. The chapter evaluate the ownership changes in Slovenian privatised firms through an analysis of stock price reactions to the entrance of a new blockholder (the shared benefits of control) and through an estimation of the premiums paid for large blocks (the private benefits of control). It provides evidence and discuss the reasons for the failures of the privatization investment funds in implementing control over firm managers and in promoting the restructuring of firms in the first post-privatization years.<p><p>Chapter 3 concentrates on one specific aspect of the managerial labour market: monetary remuneration schemes. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the interconnection between pay and corporate governance approaches with respect to the different rules found across European legal systems. The research data on reported pay practices for 2001 among FTSE Eurotop300 companies reveal a reliance on performance-based pay generally and a somewhat variable adoption of share options programs and other equity-based incentive contracts, which generate difficulties in dispersed ownership systems. Furthermore, on the basis of the regulation on executive remuneration disclosure discussed in this chapter and on the basis of the disclosure practices resulting from the data collected for the FTSE Eurotop300 constituents, I construct some disclosure indicators and analyse empirically how country and firm characteristics affect remuneration disclosure.<p> / Doctorat en sciences économiques, Orientation économie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis analyses whether the concept of monetary sovereignty evolves under the impact of globalization and financial integration, and provides a framework for assessing what this implies. Thereby, this thesis contributes to a better understanding of both the contemporary exercise of sovereign powers in monetary and financial matters and of the driving forces behind the evolution of international law in this field. As elaborated in chapter 1, the contemporary concept of monetary sovereignty proposed by this thesis is not static but dynamic in nature. Due to the dual nature of sovereignty as a concept having not only positive but also important normative components, monetary sovereignty cannot become eroded under the impact of legal and economic constraints. Chapter 2 examines the ongoing hybridization of international monetary law arising from changes in the sources of this complex body of law, from the unsuitability of the categories of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law for characterizing all normative evolutions in this field, and from the rise of private and transnational monetary law. Chapter 3 scrutinizes the phenomenon of exchange rate misalignment under monetary and trade law. Intrinsically related, it assesses which aspects of the IMF’s legal framework should be reformed in order to tackle contemporary challenges to the stability of the international monetary system, such as global current account imbalances. Chapter 4 analyses the increasing regionalization of monetary sovereignty. It argues that, to the extent that transferring sovereign powers to a monetary union is what provides a state’s population with maximum monetary and financial stability, the underlying transfers are not a surrender of monetary sovereignty, but its effective exercise under the form of cooperative sovereignty. Finally, chapter 5 assesses the implications of the contemporary concept of monetary sovereignty proposed herein for the reorganization of the international financial architecture in the wake of the Great Recession.