The study analyses the determinants of 24 emerging markets spreads at the period of 1998-2005, through a panel data model determining which sovereigns are more vulnerable to an external shock of liquidity and risk. Nevertheless the usual variables related to shocks, such as the US treasury and...

This study aims to evaluate policies that can potentially improve the economic vulnerability of a group of emerging market countries that comprises 23 countries in the period 1998-2007, coping up to 96% of the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global as of December 2007. Through a panel data...

This study aims to evaluate policies that can potentially improve the economic vulnerability of a group of emerging market countries that comprises 23 countries in the period 1998-2007, coping up to 96% of the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global as of December 2007. Through a panel data...

O objetivo deste estudo consiste em respaldar políticas com potencial de reduzir a vulnerabilidade econômica de um grupo de 23 países emergentes no período de 1998 a 2007, amostra que corresponde a mais de 96% da capitalização de mercado do índice Emerging Markets Bond Index Global...

Recently, a myriad of factor models including macroeconomic variables have been proposed to analyze the yield curve. We present an alternative factor model where term structure movements are captured by Legendre polynomials mimicking the statistical factor movements identified by Litterman and...

In this paper we evaluate the effect of the real exchange rate volatility on the hysteresis band relative to investment plans in output and export capacity enlargement in the thirty six industrial sectors in the Brazilian input-output matrix. For this, the approach by Dixit (1989a e b) was...