Comprehensive and thorough supervision of all banking institutions under a Central Bank’s regulatory control has become necessary as recent banking crises show. Promptly identifying bank distress and contagion issues is of great importance to the regulators. This paper proposes a methodology...

We study the transmission of information in a model with a vertical input-output structure and dispersed information. Firms observe input prices with noise that endogenize the precision of information that is public within a stage but not across stages. In contrast to the case with an exogenous...

This article uses the techniques of complex networks to analyze the global financial markets during the recent crisis. In particular, financial stock market shares for 46 countries are analyzed. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the interconnections between these countries. Also, it is shown that...

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...

We evaluate the Liquidity Preference Hypothesis (LPH) for the term structure of interest rates in a different way. Instead of using bond returns as traditional approaches, we use interest rate surveys with market expectations in order to evaluate LPH. This approach allows us to disentangle the...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use...