This article proposes a new procedure to evaluate Asia Pacific stock market interconnections using a dynamic setting. Dynamic Spanning Trees (DST) are constructed using an ARMA-FIEGARCH-cDCC process. The main results show that: 1. The DST significantly shrinks over time; 2. Hong Kong is found to...

This article is a theoretical analysis based on the literature review of Rural Product Certificate (CPR) and its regulation. Takes into account primarily applicable laws and regulations issued by the Central Bank of Brazil, including the Chart of Accounts for Financial Institutions (COSIF). Also...

We use high-frequency data to study the effects of currency swaps auctions by the Brazilian Central Bank on the BRL/USD spot exchange rate. We find that official currency swap auctions impact the level of the exchange rate, even though they do not directly alter the supply of foreign currency in...

This paper studies the determinant factors of risk taking and the impact of the exchange rate exposure and the exchange rate on the risk taking of banks operating in Brazil. The results suggest that the impact of the exchange rate exposure on risk taking is through return volatility and...

Several specialists and authorities blame inflation targeting (IT) regime for not responding to the increasing systemic risk and the development of asset bubbles. Nevertheless, we employ a database with commercial banks from 71 countries between 1998 and 2012, and we present evidence that: banks...

This paper characterizes external sustainability in the presence of arbitrary gross international positions. The analysis is based on the response of net exports to net foreign liabilities, and is relevant for a growing literature using the same response function approach without any...

Behavioral models of the foreign exchange market explore the bias of economic agents towards forecasting rules with good recent performance. We propose an empirical framework to study such models without imposing restrictions on the set of forecasting rules or performance metrics. In particular,...

This paper proposes a novel orthogonality condition based on realized volatility that allows instrumental variable estimation of the effects of spot intervention in foreign exchange markets. We consider parametric and nonparametric instrumental variable estimation, and propose a test based on...

This paper aims to compare the interest rates charged by credit unions and banks (commercial and multiple) in order to check whether there are differences between the rates charged for loans without personal assignment and the effects of this difference in interest rates charged by banks in...

This paper presents the quarterly survey on Financial Stability conducted by the Central Bank of Brazil since September 2011. It presents aggregate results, which were obtained with the answers of participant financial institutions. The objective of the survey is to consolidate market...