Nonlinearities in Central Bank of Brazil's reaction function: the case of asymmetric preferences

This paper investigates the existence of possible asymmetries in the Central Bank of Brazil's objectives. By assuming that the loss function is asymmetric with regard to positive and negative deviations of the output gap and of the inflation rate from its target, we estimated a nonlinear reacti...

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Main Authors: Edilean Kleber da Silva Bejarano Aragón, Marcelo Savino Portugal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-06-01
Series:Estudos Econômicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-41612010000200005

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