Risco-Brasil : o efeito-Lula e os efeitos-banco central
By: TOLEDO, Joaquim Elói Cirne de
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ArticlePublisher: São Paulo : Editora 34, jul./set. 2002Revista de Economia Política = Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 22, 3 , p. 138-145Abstract: This short paper discusses the behavior of Brazil's sovereign risk spread, since the adoption of a floating exchange rate regime in the beginning of '99. The data presented seem to support the hypothesis of perverse effects of domestic monetary policy on country-risk. On the other hand, fears of a future debt default - sparked by volatile presidential election polls - do not seem to explain a significant part of the risk spread, until very recently. The author is fully aware of the existence of a rich and fast-growing literature on country-risk. This paper is not an attempt to add new pieces of theory or rigorous analytical evidence to that literature; its sole aim is to make a small contribution to the debate, by pointing at some usually neglected factors that may explain Brazil's sovereign risk spread
This short paper discusses the behavior of Brazil's sovereign risk spread, since the adoption of a floating exchange rate regime in the beginning of '99. The data presented seem to support the hypothesis of perverse effects of domestic monetary policy on country-risk. On the other hand, fears of a future debt default - sparked by volatile presidential election polls - do not seem to explain a significant part of the risk spread, until very recently. The author is fully aware of the existence of a rich and fast-growing literature on country-risk. This paper is not an attempt to add new pieces of theory or rigorous analytical evidence to that literature; its sole aim is to make a small contribution to the debate, by pointing at some usually neglected factors that may explain Brazil's sovereign risk spread
v. 22, n. 3(87)
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