Análise dos impactos da operação lava jato no setor da construção civil

Abstract

Since 2008, the sector of civil construction in Brazil, has been showed a strong growth, in consequence of some economic policies adopted by the Government, which made great investments in public construction work. Due to these polices, many companies had an accelerated growth. In 2014, it was set off an operation, named Lava Jato, which changed the course of civil construction by discovering that large companies in the sector cheated public biddings counting on corrupt politicians’ influence. Since then, there has been a drop in public construction work investments, banks have restricted a significant quantity of credit and consequently the revenues of these companies also have decreased. Due to all these factors and for the most of these corrupt companies have a great participation in the civil construction sector, the crisis has placed in all sector. The present study brings an analysis of civil construction situation, and the impacts that Lava Jato Operation has been causing in the sector, since its beginning. The study methodology consists in a research in documents available in the government websites, economic and civil construction indicators, in addition to economic specialized journals and civil construction magazines. An analysis was made with the data found showing the real situation of civil construction sector in Brazil. As a result, the study concluded that the effects of Lava Jato Operation reflected not only in the investigated companies, but in the construction sector and even in the economy of the country.