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...

In the last two decades the financial integration between countries arose. In consequence appeared questions on different degrees of autonomy of monetary politics of these countries. The traditional sight is that interest rate is determined by offer and demand of loaned funds and that the...