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Can Jurisdictional Uncertainty and Capital Controls Explain the High Level of Real Interest Rates in Brazil? Evidence from Panel Data

Revista Brasileira de Economia

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Title Can Jurisdictional Uncertainty and Capital Controls Explain the High Level of Real Interest Rates in Brazil? Evidence from Panel Data
Pode a incerteza jurisdctional e os controles de capitais explicarem as altas taxas reais de juros no Brasil?
 
Creator Gonçalves, Fernando M; FMI
Holland, Marcio; EESP-FGV/SP
Spacov, Andrei; UC-Berkeley
 
Description This paper tests the assertion, popularized by Arida, Bacha, and Lara-Resende (2005), that risks associated with the jurisdiction and currency inconvertibility are relevant determinants of the high level of short-term real interest rates in Brazil. The results are by and large unfavorable not only to their conjecture, but also to variants of their argument. The results further indicate that traditional monetary and fiscal factors are far more relevant to explain the level of short-term real interest rates than the binomial jurisdictional uncertainty/ currency inconvertibility is.
Esse paper testa a hipόtese, popularizada por Arida, Bacha, e Lara-Resende (2005), de que riscos associados à incerteza jurisdicional e incoversibilidade da moeda nacional são importantes determinantes dos altos níveis da taxa básica de juros no Brasil. Os resultados dos testes são bastante desfavoráveis não apenas a essa hipotese, mas também a variantes dela. Os resultados também indicam que fatores tradicionais fiscais e monetários são bem mais relevantes para explicar o nível da taxa básica de juros, em comparação ao par incerteza jurisdicional/incoversibilidade da moeda.
 
Publisher Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV
 
Contributor capes e cnpq
 
Date 2007-04-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rbe/article/view/1015
 
Source Revista Brasileira de Economia; v. 61, n. 1 (2007); 49-76
Revista Brasileira de Economia; v. 61, n. 1 (2007); 49-76
0034-7140
0034-7140
 
Language eng
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