O artigo tem dois objetivos: por um lado, elabora-se, à luz da Hipótese de Fragilidade Financeira de Hyman Minsky, um Índice de Fragilidade Financeira para a estrutura financeira do setor público; por outro, analisa-se, a partir do referencial elaborado, a referida estrutura financeira para...

This paper builds on Hyman Minsky's financial fragility hypothesis to develop a financial fragility index for the public-sector financial structure. It applies the financial fragility index for the public-sector financial structure to analyze Brazil's public-sector financial structure from 2000...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of public debt management on yield curve spreads in Brazil, in order to see possible impacts on the country's economic activity. State space models, together with Kalman Filter estimators, are used for the period ranging from June 2002 to February...