This article aims to test whether or not there is a stable relation between trade balance and real exchange rate. The period covered by the sample goes from 1980 to 2004. The frequency of the data is quarterly. It was used the cointegration techniques developed by Johansen as econometric...

The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of a secular decline in terms of trade is tested using modern time series econometric techniques. Using a multivariate cointegration test, the Presbish-Singer hypothesis for Brazil is rejected. The period covered by the sample is 1850-2001. The evidence shows that...

Este trabalho visa avaliar os determinantes de longo prazo da taxa de câmbio chinesa, que apresentou nas últimas décadas uma forte depreciação frente a uma cesta de moedas e, em paralelo, a acumulação, pelo governo chinês, de crescentes reservas em moeda estrangeira, seja em termos...

Este artigo tem como objetivo estimar a taxa de câmbio real de equilíbrio para a economia brasileira. O objetivo é determinar a taxa de câmbio real que implica estabilidade da posição passiva líquida externa entre residentes e não residentes, e logo evitaria o acúmulo de desequilíbrio...

Financial events in 2008 had global impacts. We test whether U.S downturn had an impact on Brazilian economic activity and if it was unusual. We run policy ineffectiveness test (Pesaran and Smith (2014); Pesaran and Smith (2016)) and Chow test. The rejection of the null hypothesis in the first...

This paper aims to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate for the Brazilian economy. The equilibrium exchange rate is defined as the level of exchange rate that guarantees the stability of the net foreign asset position over time. An econometric model is estimated using a Vector Error...