Brito, Ricardo D.; Angelo José Mont'Alverne Duarte; … - Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department - 2003
This paper tests the Rational Expectations Hypothesis in Brazil from July 1996 to December 2001 for maturities ranging from 1 day to 1 year. It shows that (i) the estimated coefficients in the regressions of the short-run changes of the long rate on the yield spread and in the regressions of the...