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- As shown in Ize and Levy-Yeyati (2003), if the uncovered interest-parity condition holds, the dollar share of the optimal investment portfolio, which replicates the minimum variance portfolio, is equal to: MV P = [V ar(À) + Cov(À,q)]/[V ar(À) + V ar(q) + 2Cov(À,q)] where À is the inflation rate in local currency and q is the real exchange rate. To estimate a country ’s MVP for a given year, we used monthly data on inflation (CPI) and exchange rate changes for that country in that year. Source: IMF’s International Financial Statistics.
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- Capital Account Liberalization Index (CAPLIB) – Index described in Edwards’ (2005), gently provided to us by the author. It is a scale from zero to 100 in which higher values indicate increasing degrees of capital account liberalization.
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- In the case of dynamic panel data models, the ordinary least square estimator is known to be biased and inconsistent. In dynamic panel data models where the autoregressive parameter is moderately large and the number of time series observations is moderately small, exactly as in our dataset, Blundell and Bond (1998) find the widely used linear Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator obtained from the first differences of the sample variables to have large finite sample biases and poor precision in simulation studies. Lagged levels of the series provide weak instruments for first differences in this case.17 When estimating a dynamic model for the equation of the real interest rate we were therefore interested in transformations that allowed the use of lagged endogenous variables as instruments in the transformed equation.
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- Investment Grade (IGRADE) – Equal to 1 for a sovereign investment-grade rating and zero for a speculative-grade rating. This variable was maintained constant for each country on the basis of its status in 2004. Source: Standard & Poor’s. Jurisdictional Uncertainty (JU) – Equal to 100 minus the World Bank rule-of-law index ranging from 0 to 100. As we had values for this variable only for even years, odd-years values were interpolated. Source: World Bank, Governance Indicators.
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Ize, A. & Levy-Yeyati, E. (2003). Financial dollarization. Journal of International Economics, 59:323–347.
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- Per Capita GDP (Y ) – In constant 2000 US$. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (on line).
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RBE Rio de Janeiro v. 63 n. 4 / p. 341–360 Out-Dez 356 Edmar L. Bacha, Márcio Holland and Fernando M. Gonçalves Edwards, S. (2005). Capital controls, sudden stops and current account reversals. NBER Working Paper 11170. Cambridge, MA.
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- Thus, to estimate the real interest rate equation with its one-year lagged value as one of the regressors, we adopted a two-step GMM system estimation (level and difference combined, GMM-SYS) proposed by Blundell and Bond (1998), based on Arellano and Bond (1991) and Arellano and Bover (1995). In this procedure, the one-lagged real interest rate is treated as an endogenous variable and the two-lagged real interest rate is an additional instrument.18 We also used the variance of the two-step estimation to deal with the downward bias in variance estimation in small samples (Windmeijer, 2005).
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Windmeijer, F. (2005). A finite sample correction for the variance of linear efficient two-step GMM estimators. Journal of Econometrics, 126:667–678.
- World Bank (2007b). World development indicators online. www.worldbank.org. RBE Rio de Janeiro v. 63 n. 4 / p. 341–360 Out-Dez 357 A Panel-Data Analysis of Interest Rates and Dollarization in Brazil 6. APPENDIX I DATA SOURCES AND DESCRIPTIONS Real Interest Rate (RIR) – Ratio of one plus the average of the annualized end-of-month moneymarket interest rate in IFS (line 60B, ZF) to one plus the average of the annualized monthly consumer price index variation (IFS, line CPI), minus one, in percentage terms.
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