Orientador: Samuel Frederico / Resumo: No início do século XXI, o território brasileiro foi marcado pela emergência das imobiliárias agrícolas financeirizadas. Trata-se de empresas agrícolas vinculadas ao capital financeiro que têm a terra como principal ativo financeiro. O surgimento dessas empresas no país remonta a recente corrida por terras de proporções globais, conhecido como land grabbing. Caracterizado pela forte relação entre o capital financeiro e o mercado de terras, o fenômeno de land grabbing foi intensificado nos Cerrados brasileiros a partir das estratégias adotadas pelas imobiliárias agrícolas financeirizadas da captura da renda fundiária, colocando em oposição à lógica de rentabilidade financeira e as comunidades locais. Diante dessa dialética entre o global e o local, partimos da concepção de que o interesse do capital financeiro no controle de terras e na produção agrícola moderna impõe uma nova lógica de rentabilidade às imobiliárias agrícolas financeirizadas, resultando numa série de conflitualidades nas áreas de Cerrado. Em busca dessa constatação, esta tese analisou as estratégias de uso do território brasileiro pela empresa BrasilAgro. Dedicando-se em responder algumas questões: como que o capital financeiro vem impondo a sua lógica de rentabilidade as imobiliárias agrícolas financeirizadas? Quem são os agentes financeiros que estão por trás da BrasilAgro? Quais são os seus reais interesses desses agentes de efetuar investimentos em terras/agricultura? Quais são as estratégias da empresa de... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: At the beginning of the 21st century, Brazilian territory was marked by emergence of agricultural real estate companies linked to financial capital. These companies have the land as the main financial asset. The emergence of these companies in Brazil dates back to recent the land grabbing worldwide. Characterized by relationship between the financial capital and the land market, the phenomenon of land grabbing was intensified in the Brazilian Cerrado through strategies of rent capture by the agricultural real estate companies opposing logic of financial profitability and the communities from Brazilian Cerrado. In view of this dialectic between global and local, we start from the conception that interest of the financial capital in the control of lands and in the modern agricultural production imposes a new logic of profitability the Brazilian agricultural companies, amplifying several conflicts in the Cerrado areas. Therefore, this thesis analyzed the strategies of use of the Brazilian territory by the company BrasilAgro dedicating itself to answer some questions as: how does finance capital impose your logic of profitability on agricultural real estate companies? Who are the financial agents that are behind this agricultural enterprise? What are your real interests in investing in land? What are the company's strategies for capturing land income? How does your performance relate to land grabbing? What are the territorial consequences of your investments? The information was ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), or perhaps the lack of it, is widely debated today. Regulations and international discussions surrounding the topic is taking up a larger room in the public domain with the Paris Climate Accords being a pinnacle where a number of countries decided to agree to quite ambitious climate goals. For companies, there could be incentives to early adapt to these accords to be better suited for the future. But even during present time, it could be beneficial to as early as possible readjust into a more sustainable direction. The Nordic countries are ranked among the top in the world when it comes to sustainability. Can this however, lead to a reduction in costs for Nordic companies that invest into CSR?   The purpose of this study is to examine if there is a link between socially responsible companies and the cost of interest bearing debt. This was done by conducting a number of regression models, both linear and non-linear. The data used have a time frame of 10 years and span between 2009 to 2018 with a total number of 106 firm’s and 796 firm-year observations. CSR scores were collected using Thomson Reuters and the results show that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between CSR and the cost of interest bearing debt. The effects CSR have on the cost of interest bearing debt are somewhat inconsequential and the conclusion is made that CSR can be a major determinant for interest bearing debt, but it is related to the size of the debt portfolio. Further, the results of this research could be viewed as a component in a more comprehensive model.

Kapitalstrukturen hos svenska fastighetsbolag har sedan finanskrisen år 2007–2008 förändrats avsevärt. Framför allt genom en ökad mängd marknadsfinansiering i form av obligations- och certifikatslån men även genom hybridkapital såsom D- och preferensaktier. Det har skapat nya vägar och strategier för fastighetsbolag att genom sin kapitalstruktur påverka utvecklingen på bolaget. Bolagen har genom de nya finansieringsalternativen nått ut till nya typer av investerare som tidigare inte var aktiva på den svenska fastighetsmarknaden. Det finns dock andra aktörer än fastighetsbolagen själva som påverkar hur deras kapitalstruktur ser ut. Investerare, kreditvärderingsinstitut, finansinspektionen och banker är några av de aktörer som är med och influerar fastighetsbolagen. Studiens syfte är att undersöka svenska fastighetsbolags kapitalstruktur och huruvida kapitalstrukturen påverkas av bolagens fastighetsbestånd. Studien undersöker även hur finansieringstrender och marknadsföreteelser påverkar fastighetsbolags tillgång på kapital. Målsättningen med studien är att dra slutsatser om hur fastighetsbolags fastighetsbestånd, finansieringstrender samt företeelser på marknaden influerar deras kapitalstruktur. Studien är indelad i två delar och inleds med en kvantitativ del som utgångspunkt där skillnader i fastighetsbolags räntebärande skulder undersöks genom deras genomsnittliga direktavkastningskrav använt vid värdering. Den andra delen består av en kvalitativ intervjustudie med semistrukturerade intervjuer med finanschefer/CFO:s på fastighetsbolag, fastighetsanalytiker på bank samt en kreditvärderingsanalytiker på ett kreditvärderingsinstitut. Studien visar att fastighetsbolagens fastighetsbestånd påverkar tillgången och priset på finansiering. Det är däremot svårt att avgöra till hur stor del fastighetsbeståndet påverkar. Det går inte att säga att fastighetsbeståndets risk, mätt i direktavkastningskrav, påverkar fastighetsbolagens räntebärande skuldstruktur. Utifrån intervjustudien kan slutsatser dras att fastighetsbolagens kapitalstruktur påverkas av många parametrar. Fastighetsbolagen kan till största del själva bestämma hur de vill utforma sin kapitalstruktur. De är sällan begränsade att använda sig av något av finansieringsinstrumenten, dock finns det väsentliga prisskillnader beroende på bolagets storlek, renommé, kreditbetyg, ägarstruktur, tillväxttakt och fastighetsbeståndets ekonomiska status. / The capital structure of Swedish real estate companies has changed considerably since the financial crisis in 2007-2008. The change has primarily been through an increased amount of market financing in the form of bonds and certificates of deposit, but also through hybrid capital. It has created new ways and strategies for real estate companies to influence the development of the company through its capital structure. Through the new financingalternatives, the companies have reached out to new types of investors who were not previously active in the Swedish real estate market. However, there are other actors than the real estate companies themselves who influence what their capital structure looks like. Investors, credit rating agencies, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and banks are some of the actors involved in influencing real estate companies. The purpose of the study is to examine the capital structure of Swedish real estate companies and whether the capital structure is affected by the companies' property portfolio. The study also examines how financing trends and market phenomena affect real estate companies' access to capital. The aim of the study is to draw conclusions about how real estate companies' property portfolio, financing trends and phenomena in the market influence their capital structure. The study is divided into two parts and begins with a quantitative part where differences in real estate companies' interest-bearing debts are examined through their average yield used in valuations. The second part consists of a qualitative interview study with semi-structured interviews with CFOs at real estate companies, real estate analysts at banks and a credit rating analyst at a credit rating agency. The study presents that real estate companies' property portfolio affects the supply and price of financing. Although, it is difficult to determine to what extent the property portfolio affects the capital structure. It is not possible to say that the risk of the property portfolio, measured in average valuation yield, affects the real estate companies' interest-bearing debt structure. Based on the interview study, conclusions can be drawn that the real estate companies' capital structure is affected by many parameters. The real estate companies can for the most part decide for themselves how they want to design their capital structure. They are rarely limited to using any of the different financial instruments, however, there are significant price differences depending on the company's size, reputation, credit rating, ownership structure, growth rate and the financial status of the property portfolio.

Sverige rör sig mot ett kontantlöst samhälle i en takt som uppmärksammas internationellt. Det svenska betalningsväsendet kan komma att genomgå omfattande strukturella förändringar inom snar framtid. En av dessa förändringar kan antas vara införandet av den digitala centralbanksvalutan (CBDC) e-kronan. Då språnget mot det kontantlösa samhället börjat uttrycka sig i resten av världen är olika länders centralbanker mitt uppe i att reda ut de makroekonomiska effekter som en CBDC medför. Då e-kronan är ett nytt fenomen existerar det inte någon omfattande empirisk forskning, utan förhållandesättet är fortfarande teoretiskt. Vi undersöker därför de makroekonomiska effekter som kan tänkas uppstå vid införandet av en räntebärande e-krona från kort till lång sikt, samt diskuterar möjligheten för att använda e-kronan som ett penningpolitiskt styrmedel. Vi finner utifrån en modifiering av IS-MP-PC-modellen att en räntebärande e-krona som sätts i enlighet med inflationsmålet har liknande makroekonomiska effekter som styrräntan har idag. Vidare utvidgar vi en överlappande generationsmodell och visar på en undanträngning av reala tillgångar på lång sikt vid höga räntenivåer på e-kronan relativt till räntan på reala tillgångar i ett intergenerationellt sammanhang. / Sweden is moving towards a cashless society at an internationally recognized pace. The Swedish payment system may undergo extensive structural changes in the near future. One of these changes is assumed to be the introduction of the digital central bank currency (CBDC) e-krona. As the leap towards a cashless society has begun to manifest itself in the rest of the world, various countries' central banks are in the midst of figuring out the macroeconomic effects that a CBDC brings. As the e-krona is a new phenomenon, there is no extensive empirical research and the approach is still theoretical. We therefore investigate the macroeconomic effects that may arise from the introduction of an interest-bearing e-krona from the short to the long term and discuss the possibility of using the e-krona as a monetary policy instrument. By modifying the IS-MP-PC-model we find that an interest-bearing e-krona set in accordance with the inflation target has similar macroeconomic effects as the policy rate today. Furthermore, we extend an overlapping generations model and show a crowding out effect of real assets in the long run when the interest rate on the e-krona is high relative to the interest rate on real assets in an intergenerational context.

Submitted by David Turchick (davidturchick@fgvmail.br) on 2011-03-28T21:58:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_dout_david.pdf: 1028717 bytes, checksum: ebae39f4145a0e8d55de18fe3b119f10 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Virginio Machado(andrea.machado@fgv.br) on 2011-03-29T11:47:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_dout_david.pdf: 1028717 bytes, checksum: ebae39f4145a0e8d55de18fe3b119f10 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-03-31T17:21:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_dout_david.pdf: 1028717 bytes, checksum: ebae39f4145a0e8d55de18fe3b119f10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-24 / This thesis collects four papers on monetary economics written under the supervision of Professor Rubens Penha Cysne. The first of these papers assesses the bias occuring in welfare-cost-of-inflation measures due to failing to take into consideration the substitution potential of interest-bearing monies such as bank deposits. The second one tackles the theoretical issue of comparing the generality of the money-in-the-utility-function- and the shopping-time models by studying the properties of the demand curves they generate. The third of these works revisits a classic paper by Stanley Fischer on the correlation between the growth rate of money supply and the rate of capital accumulation on the transition path. Finally, the fourth one concerns the relative standing of each one of six measures of the welfare cost of inflation (one of which is new) with respect to the other five, and an estimate of the maximum relative error one can incur by choosing to employ a particular welfare measure in place of the others. / Esta tese é uma coleção de quatro artigos em economia monetária escritos sob a supervisão do Professor Rubens Penha Cysne. O primeiro desses artigos calcula o viés presente em medidas do custo de bem-estar da inflação devido a não se levar em conta o potencial substitutivo de moedas que rendem juros, como depósitos bancários.[1] O segundo se concentra na questão teórica de se comparar os escopos dos tradicionais modelos money-in-the-utility-function e shopping-time através do estudo das propriedades das curvas de demanda que eles geram.[2] O terceiro desses trabalhos revisita um artigo clássico de Stanley Fischer sobre a correlação entre a taxa de crescimento da oferta monetária e a taxa de acumulação de capital no caminho de transição.[3] Finalmente, o quarto diz respeito à posição relativa de cada uma de seis medidas do custo de bem-estar da inflação (uma das quais é nova) em relação às outras cinco, e uma estimativa do erro relativo máximo em que o pesquisador pode incorrer devido a sua escolha de empregar uma dessas medidas qualquer vis-à-vis as outras.

This paper addresses the problem of a failing net debt approach; deposited funds rarely compensate the cost of debt. Venturing into operational credit facilities, the study evaluates the efficiency and feasibility of transitioning into fully cash-free liquidity management. The study takes a holistic approach and evaluates the research questions from the perspective of management through case studies on four smaller Swedish industrial firms. The study finds that there is substantial potential to free up capital; return on equity could have been boosted by an annual 5-10 percent including substantial one-off distributions. The study also concludes that Agency reasons are strong reasons for why firms are carrying material cash reserves. Through qualitative interviews, the study identifies several additional, but not less important, obstacles in the way of a full out cash-free transition. Most significantly, the financial system is not offering fully committed long term operational credit facilities and operating across different jurisdictions complicates the consolidation of liquidity. The study concludes that the matter would not have vast negative implications on real business activities, although further research would be required in regard to an extended debt overhang problem. / Uppsatsen kretsar kring den fallerande logiken med begreppet nettoskuld; tillgodohavanden på bank genererar sällan upp för kostnaden relaterad till motsvarande skuld. Med utgångspunkt i operationella kreditstrukturer utvärderas möjliga effektivitetsvinster och genomförbarheten av en fullständig övergång till kassa-fri likviditetshantering. Studien har ett holistiskt angreppssätt och utvärderar frågeställningarna från ett management-perspektiv genom fallstudier på fyra mindre svenska industriella bolag. Studien finner betydande möjligheter att frigöra kapital; årliga avkastningen på eget kapital hade kunnat öka med 5–10 procent och betydande engångsutdelningar hade varit möjliga. Studien finner vidare att agentteorin är en stark anledning till att bolag bär betydande kassapositioner. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer identifierar studien ytterligare, men ej desto mindre betydande, hinder för en kassa-fri övergång. Mest betydelsefullt, är att nuvarande finansiella system inte erbjuder för syftet fullgoda kreditstrukturer, samt det faktum att företag med verksamhet över olika jurisdiktioner upplever juridiska svårigheter med att konsolidera likviditet. Studien drar slutsatsen att en övergång inte skulle medföra betydande negativa konsekvenser för den operativa affärsverksamheten, men identifierar samtidigt att ytterligare studier skulle vara nödvändiga framförallt kring hur finansiella incitament kopplade till agent-teorins ’debt overhang’ skulle förändras vill en övergång till en fullt garanterad operationell kreditstruktur.