This study makes a contribution to the literature on bank opaqueness and bank credit through empirical evidence gathered from data of 310 NYSE and NASDAQ banks for the period 1Q1990 to 4Q2009. In addition to developing an opacity index based on bank risk information, the empirical analysis...

This paper presents a contribution to the empirical literature concerning the relationship between social security and public debt in emerging economies. In particular, several economic and social shocks, as income inequality, were considered in the analysis. Based on the Brazilian data from...

This paper presents empirical evidence from the Brazilian experience for the analysis on securitization transactions and credit risk. Based on panel data framework that takes into account 60 financial institutions from October 2002 to September 2012, we observe if there is some effect of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study if the central bank (BC) communications affect the effectiveness of the monetary policy. Design/methodology/approach – For this analysis, a new Keynesian theoretical model and the ordinary least squared methodology were used. The objective to...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise para a política fiscal brasileira no período 2000-2010 a partir da elaboração de um indicador de impulso fiscal. Os resultados obtidos mostram que houve uma postura expansionista entre 2000 e 2010. Entretanto, a análise a partir de cada ano permitiu...