Linking Financial and Macroeconomic Factors to Credit Risk Indicators of Brazilian Banks [PDF]
This study constructs a set of credit risk indicators for 39 Brazilian banks, using the Merton framework and balance sheet information on the banks’ total assets and liabilities.
Benjamin M. Tabak +2 more
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Financial Instability and Credit Constraint: Evidence from the Cost of Bank Financing [PDF]
This paper examines the relation between the degree of firms’ financial constraint and the observed rise in the cost of bank financing during the global financial crisis of 2008.
Bruno S. Martins
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Behavior and Effects of Equity Foreign Investors on Emerging Markets [PDF]
This paper analyzes empirically the behavior of foreign investors on emerging equity markets in a cross-country setting, including 14 emerging markets from the year 2000 to 2005. We could find little evidence that these investors have brought problems to
Barbara Alemanni +1 more
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The Effect of Bid-Ask Prices on Brazilian Options Implied Volatility: A Case Study of Telemar Call Options [PDF]
Although not explicitly reported, option traders on the Bovespa exchange pay an implicit bid-ask spread on each trade. Reported transaction prices that comprise the databases previously used to study the Brazilian options markets do not reflect actual ...
Claudio Henrique da Silveira Barbedo +1 more
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Estimation of Economic Capital Concerning Operational Risk in a Brazilian Banking Industry Case [PDF]
The advance of globalization of the international financial market has implied a more complex portfolio risk for the banks. Furthermore, several points such as the growth of e-banking and the increase in accounting irregularities call attention to ...
Délio José Cordeiro Galvão +2 more
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Building Confidence Intervals with Block Bootstraps for the Variance Ratio Test of Predictability [PDF]
This paper compares different versions of the multiple variance ratio test based on bootstrap techniques for the construction of empirical distributions.
Benjamin Miranda Tabak +1 more
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Pessimistic Foreign Investors and Turmoil in Emerging Markets: the case of Brazil in 2002 [PDF]
Using survey data, we document that foreign-owned institutions became more pessimistic than locally owned institutions about the strength of the Brazilian currency around the 2002 presidential elections.
Emanuel Kohlscheen, Sandro C. Andrade
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The Stability-Concentration Relationship in the Brazilian Banking System [PDF]
In this article the relation between non-performing loans (NPL) of the Brazilian banking system and macroeconomic factors, systemic risk and banking concentration is empirically tested.
Benjamin Miranda Tabak +3 more
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