This paper estimates the Brazilian Nairu (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) and investigates several empirical questions: the behavior of Nairu along time, error bands for Nairu and the usefulness of Nairu to the conduct of monetary policy in Brazil. There are many recent studies...

Spatial dependence results from the existence of spillover effects such as the impact of the price of one housing unit on the price of its adjacent neighbors. One way to account for spatial dependence is to specify spatial lag models in which a spatially lagged variable is assumed to play a role...

When analyzing the demand for money in high inflation processes it has been suggested [Tourinho (1995)] that we should consider not only the effects of changes in the expected inflation rate but also changes in the expected variability of inflation. The model in Lima & Ehlers (1993) is extended...

A avaliação da habilidade preditiva das expectativas do mercado - pesquisa Focus - sobre a taxa de inflação brasileira é importante, dado o papel predominante destas expectativas na condução da política monetária no Brasil. Lima e Céspedes (2006) mostraram que, no período de janeiro...

Este texto tem como objetivo estimar os impactos dos choques exógenos na política monetária e no câmbio sobre variáveis econômicas brasileiras, utilizando-se a informação contida em uma grande quantidade destas variáveis. Para obter-se um modelo Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression...

This paper compares the forecasting performance of linear and nonlinear models under the presence of structural breaks for the Brazilian real GDP growth. The Markov switching models proposed by Hamilton (1989) and its generalized version by Lam (1990) are applied to quarterly GDP from 1975:1 to...

This article estimates the monetary policy rule followed by the Brazilian Central Bank for setting its main policy instrument, the SELIC rate, for the period after the Real Plan. In order to overcome the uncertainty over the dates at which changes in parameters occurred, this paper uses...

In this article we use the theory of conditional forecasts to develop a new Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) for Brazil and compare it to the ones constructed using the methodologies suggested by Bernanke and Mihov (1998) and Batini and Turnbull (2002). We use Sims and Zha (1999) and Waggoner and...

This article investigates the stochastic and dynamic relationship of a group of Brazilian macroeconomic variables (price and industrial production indexes, nominal exchange rate, short and medium-run nominal interest rates) for the period after the Real Plan (1996-2004). We adopt, as has become...

In this article we use the theory of conditional forecasts to develop a new MonetaryConditions Index (MCI) for Brazil and compare it to the ones constructed using themethodologies suggested by Bernanke and Mihov (1998) and Batini and Turnbull(2002). We use Sims and Zha (1999) and Waggoner and...