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      The Influence of Political Connections on the Cost of Capital and the Performance of Companies Listed on B3 Translated title: A Influência das Conexões Políticas no Custo de Capital e no Desempenho das Empresas Listadas na B3

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          ABSTRACT The theory holds that in emerging economies, such as the Brazilian one, companies seek to strengthen ties with governmental and institutional actors in order to improve their performance. From the theoretical perspective of the Institutional Theory, this study intends to contribute to previous research, integrating the fields of strategy and finance, investigating the influence of political connections, through campaign donations, the cost of capital and the performance of listed companies on B3. We worked with panel data for data analysis on the period ranging from 1998 to 2016. Our findings do not corroborate the theoretical and intuitive prediction that “crony capitalism” reduces the cost of capital and improves the performance of companies, since we did not obtain empirical evidence that allows affirming that the effect of donations on the cost of capital and the performance of connected companies is different from zero.

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          RESUMO A teoria preconiza que em economias emergentes, como a brasileira, as empresas buscam estreitar e fortalecer laços com atores governamentais e institucionais com objetivo de melhorar seu desempenho. Sob a perspectiva teórica da Teoria Institucional, o presente estudo pretende contribuir com pesquisas anteriores, integrando os campos da estratégia e de finanças, investigando a influência das conexões políticas, por meio das doações de campanha, no custo de capital e no desempenho das empresas listadas na B3. Trabalhamos com dados em painel para análise dos dados no período 1998 a 2016. Nossos achados não corroboram a predição teórica e intuitiva de que o “capitalismo de compadrio” reduz o custo de capital e melhora o desempenho das empresas, uma vez que não obtivemos evidências empíricas as quais permitam afirmar que o efeito das doações no custo de capital e no desempenho das empresas conectadas é diferente de zero.

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
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                Journal
                bbr
                BBR. Brazilian Business Review
                BBR, Braz. Bus. Rev.
                Fucape Business School (Vitória, ES, Brazil )
                1808-2386
                July 2018
                : 15
                : 4
                : 317-330
                Affiliations
                [1] Biguaçu Santa Catarina orgnameUniversidade do Vale do Itajaí Brazil
                [4] Criciúma SC orgnameUniversidade Extremo Sul Catarinense Brazil
                [2] Portales New Mexico orgnameEastern New Mexico University United States
                [3] Blumenau Santa Catarina orgnameUniversidade Regional de Blumenau Brazil
                Article
                S1808-23862018000400317
                10.15728/bbr.2018.15.4.1
                e70cd7fe-6f8a-4891-8db2-f452d79f68f1

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 27 September 2017
                : 09 March 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 48, Pages: 14
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                Corrupção,Cost of Capital,Political Connections,Performance,Desempenho,Conexões Políticas,Custo de Capital,Doações de Campanha,Corruption,Campaign Donations

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