The credit increased expressive and continuously throughout the Lula government, even after the 2008 crisis. This study aims to analyze this process and its determinants. We identify two different periods. We concluded that changes in legislation as well as financial innovations, in a favorable...

In this paper, the relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices is explored by estimating the impact of macroeconomic announcements in the Brazilian futures market. Using intraday data from October 2008 to January 2011, results show that external macroeconomic announcements...

This study aims to analyze price discovery in the foreign exchange market in Brazil and indicate which market (spot or futures) adjusts more quickly to the arrival of new information. Using high frequency data from January/2008 to June/2013, we estimate the following price discovery metrics:...