Intuitively core inflation is understood as a measure of inflation where noisy price movements are avoided. This is typically achieved by either excluding or downplaying the importance of the most volatile items. However, some of those items show high persistence, and one certainly does not want...

Fintech has become one of the most popular topics among policymakers and experts. It usually comes with the qualifier "disruptive". Thus, the hype is easy to understand: fintech would upend the financial system due to its disruptive nature, as it would allow financial services to be completed...

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of factors that affect the net inflow of savings deposits. To achieve this goal, the paper presents the impact of regulatory changes, which have occurred in the period from March 2003 to November 2011, had in attracting savings, uses...

This work examines the determinants of the capital structure of Brazilian companies between the years 2000 and 2009. Based on quantile regression model and on the comparison with conventional models (least squares and fixed effects), the work provides better understanding of capital structure to...

This paper has estimated the DSGE model proposed by Smets and Wouters (2007) for the Brazilian economy, using Bayesian techniques, aiming at analyzing the recent performance of the inflation targeting monetary policy. It was obtained estimates of barely known structural parameters and the...

Lucas(1987) has shown a surprising result in business-cycle research: the welfare cost of business cycles are very small. Our paper has several original contributions. First, in computing welfare costs, we propose a novel setup that separates the effects of uncertainty stemming from...

This paper discusses recent experiences with inflation targeting (IT), the challenges that it faces since the global financial crisis, and ways to address them. The discussion is conducted from the perspective of upper middle-income countries (MICs). As background for the analysis, the second...

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 aims at dissecting how stylized facts of labor supply and labor demand may explain the aggregate unemployment rate developments from 1992 to 2012 using a household level data (PNAD/IBGE) for Brazil as a whole and for its six main metropolitan regions. The conclusions follow. The main...