Sistema bancário sob a crise econômica internacional : o caso brasileiro

Abstract

The objective of this work is to try to show which factors were crucial to the robustness of the Brazilian banking system during the global financial crisis that began in 2007 and extends to the present day. Unlike what happened in the United States and in major European countries, in our country, there has been no general collapse of banking institutions, although a few medium-sized banks and other large have been incorporated by other financial institutions, largely due of that crisis. To achieve this goal, in addition to literature study was conducted through econometric estimation methodology Vector Autoregression (VAR). The results suggest that our banking system is more conservative than the world average, whichis testified by the high indicators of Basel in our institutions and in addition, the determining factor for which there was not a wide spread failure of banks in the country was the fact that they have a high preference for investments in public securities, which, by their nature, are like quasi-money and pay interest rates remain very high. Thus, at this ligh testing no fin stability of the economy, both external and internal, can increase their liquidity preference government bonds without suffering major problems, because hardly get too leveraged due to the characteristics of the roles of government, already mentioned above.