The adoption of the Taylor rule is an essential element of the New Consensus on Monetary Policy, characterized by the recent acceptance, by the orthodoxy, of money stock endogeneity. In line with the reviewed literature, a reaction function of the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) is estimated with a...

The adoption of the Taylor rule is an essential element of the New Consensus on Monetary Policy, characterized by the recent acceptance, by the orthodoxy, of money stock endogeneity. In line with the reviewed literature, a reaction function of the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) is estimated with a...

Interaction between central banks and private sector occurs through communication between both parts. Accountability and influence on expectations are the two reasons because central banks communicate with markets. In fact, sometimes communicating objectives, targets and perceptions results in...

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...

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...

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...

In theory, prices of current-month federal funds futures contracts should reflect market expectations of near-term movements in the Federal Reserve's target level for the federal funds rate. However, empirical results show that such measures of market expectations are too noisy to predict...

Com o presente artigo procurou-se fazer uma súmula dos principais canais de transmissão da política monetária. São discutidas as implicações da presença dos canais de transmissão na condução da política monetária pelo banco central. Palavras chave: Canais de transmissão monetária,...

Com o presente artigo, tecem-se alguns considerandos sobre o método de avaliação da admissibilidade teórica do canal do crédito, baseando-nos na sua decomposição em condição de existência e condição de eficácia.