Capturing financial network linkages and contagion in stress test models are important goals for banking supervisors and central banks responsible for micro- and macroprudential policy. However, granular data on financial networks is often lacking, and instead the networks must be reconstructed...

In this work we measure the evolution of the long-range dependence phenomenon of returns and volatilities of nominal British exchange rates (British pound against US dollar) futures contracts negotiated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1986 to 2004. The measurement employs the R/S classic...

This paper presents measures for the mitigation of systemic risk adopted in the Brazilian Payment System, and payments processed by this system are analyzed in order to identify potential sources of systemic risk. Measures for the mitigation of systemic risk within the Brazilian Payment System...

Este artigo apresenta uma extensão do modelo de flutuações cíclicas desenvolvido por Fazzari et alii (2008), realizada com a finalidade de permitir a avaliação do papel da política monetária e das bolhas especulativas no fenômeno da persistência das flutuações cíclicas nos ciclos...

Este artigo tem por objetivo estender o modelo de flutuações cíclicas desenvolvido por Fazzari, Ferri e Greenberg (2008) por intermédio da incorporação de uma regra de Taylor e de um processo markoviano de formação de bolhas especulativas no valor da riqueza financeira dos consumidores,...

This paper presents measures of long-range dependence in daily exchange rates of the Brazilian Real against the US Dollar, taken from 1995 to 2004 employing the classical R/S analysis with a rolling sample. It analyses the switch from a crawling peg exchange regime to a floating exchange regime,...

This paper simulates the effects of credit risk, changes in capital requirements and price shocks on the Brazilian banking system. We perform the analysis within the context of a model that integrates data on bilateral exposures in the interbank market with information about the liquidity...