DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY

The author(s) declare, for the appropriate ends, that the monograph titled ____________________________________________________________________________,

for the Central Bank Economics and Finance Award1, is an original work as determined by the award

Rules and is not plagiarism of any kind, in full or in part, as defined by Brazilian copyright legislation.

The author(s) also confirm to be aware of the possibility of administrative and judicial sanctions in

case of detected plagiarism in any form.

City:__________________________________, ______________________________, 2017.

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________ Signature:________________________________________________ ID or passport:_______________________

1 Instituted by BACEN Notice number 1, dated 27.10.2016, published in 31.10.2016 in Section 3 of the DOU. (redact any unused author fields)

This declaration must be filled, converted to PDF and forwarded to the e-mail premio.bcb@bcb.gov.br, until 2PM (Brasília Time – UTC/GMT −3:00) on April 24, 2017, as stated in article 6 of the award Rules.