This paper examines how monetary policy decisions in Brazil, regarding short term interest rates, have affected the term structure of interest rates. We apply an event study methodology in two distinct periods: between January 2000 and August 2003, right after the implementation of the inflation...

More than eleven years after the end of hyperinflation in Brazil, domestic bond markets have been unable to lengthen the average maturity of both public and private bonds. This paper shows that the lengthening is theoretically and practically (we analyzed the experiences of Israel, Mexico and...

More than eleven years after the end of hyperinflation in Brazil, domestic bond markets have been unable to lengthen the average maturity of both public and private bonds. This paper shows that the lengthening is theoretically and practically (we analyzed the experiences of Israel, Mexico and...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo utiliza o analise de componentes principais para avaliar os movimentos da Estrutura a Termo brasileira. Com os fatores obtidos aplicam-se os procedimentos de imunização de carteira de renda fixa local e compara-se o resultado a uma estratégia de hedge simples...

Recorremos à teoria do canal do crédito para avaliar a integração de uma pequena economia, com instabilidade nominal, numa união monetária desenhada para garantir um elevado nível de estabilidade monetária. Conclui-se que o choque estrutural da integração na união monetária pode...

El modelo de valoración de activos basado en el consumo, CCAPM, ha sido objeto de estudio para distintas economías, dando lugar a diversas anomalías empíricas, entre ellas, el denominado enigma de la prima de riesgo. Los valores del parámetro de aversión relativa al riesgo necesarios para...

Asset price fluctuations: comparing rational speculative bubbles and the keynesian approach The principal aim of this paper is to analyze the limits of the conventional approach to speculative rational bubbles as an explanation for price fluctuations in financial assets. It is argued that the...

This study analyzes the effect of the Provisional Measure 281, published at 16/02/2006 and converted in the Law no 11.312, at 27/06/2006, which reduced to zero the income tax of federal bonds achieved by non-residents, over the Brazilian term structure of interest rate. We used the daily...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of fiscal policy sustainability over the determinants of domestic interest rate of a group of 23 emerging market countries in the period 1996-2008. Among the analyzed countries are: South Africa, Argentina, Brazil,Bulgaria, Chile, China,...

This study aims to evaluate policies that can potentially improve the economic vulnerability of a group of emerging market countries that comprises 23 countries in the period 1998-2007, coping up to 96% of the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global as of December 2007. Through a panel data...