This paper investigates whether there is evidence of structural change in the Brazilian term structure of interest rates. Multivariate cointegration techniques are used to verify this evidence. Two econometrics models are estimated. The rst one is a Vector Autoregressive Model with Error...

Usando dados intradiários dos ativos mais negociados do BOVESPA, este trabalho considerou dois modelos recentemente desenvolvidos na literatura de estimação e previsão de volatilidade realizada. São eles; Heterogeneous Autorregressive Model of Realized Volatility (HAR-RV), desenvolvido por...

Este estudo testa a hipótese de contágio entre setores da economia dos Estados Unidos durante a crise do Subprime. A metodologia econométrica baseia-se em modelos de correlações condicionais dinâmicas e na aplicação de testes LM robustos para testar a presença de quebras estruturais na...

Using intraday data for the most actively traded stocks on the São Paulo Stock Market (BOVESPA) index, this study considers two recently developed models from the literature on the estimation and prediction of realized volatility: the Heterogeneous Autoregressive Model of Realized Volatility...

O presente artigo estuda os ciclos de negócios brasileiro no período dos anos 1900 até 2012. Como a série trimestral do PIB real só começa em 1980 é construida a série para o período de 1900 a 1979, utilizando um modelo estrutural de series de tempo com disagregação temporal para o...

This paper investigates whether or not multivariate cointegrated process with structural change can describe the Brazilian term structure of interest rate data from 1995 to 2006. In this work the break point and the number of cointegrated vector are assumed to be known. The estimated model has...

Starting from an adapted version of Osler and Chang (1995) methodology, this article empirically evaluates the profitability of investment strategies based on identification of the Head and Shoulders chart pattern in the Brazilian stock market. For that purpose, several investment strategies...

This aim of this paper is to test whether or not there was evidence of financial crises ‘contagion’. The sovereignty debt bonds data for Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Argentine were used to implement such test. The ‘contagion’ hypothesis is tested using multivariate volatility models....