Bangura, Alhassan; Curci, Roberto - In: Latin American financial markets : developments in …, (pp. 365-381). 2005
This study examines transmission of U.S. equity markets returns and volatility into Brazilian equity and labor markets. Monthly closing prices of U.S. S&P500 and Bovespa indexes are used to proxy U.S. and Brazilian equity market returns. Brazilian monthly unemployment rates and the average wage...