This present thesis discusses the estimation of risk and of financial assets pricing, the measures that seek to estimate how the market players are evaluating the monetary policy, as well as the inter-relationship between the stock market and monetary policy. This interrelation is represented by the estimation of the stock market s reaction to changes in monetary policy. The first essay implements the estimation of two recent volatility models using high-frequency data. Heterogeneous Autoregressive model (HAR) and the Component model (2-Comp) are estimated and the results are compared with those found by estimations using the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) family models. During the analyzed period, the models using intraday data obtained better forecasts of asset returns valued both in-sample and out-of-sample, thus confirming that these models have important information for the economic agents. The next essay estimates the credibility of monetary policy implemented by the Central Bank of Brazil - BCB in the last ten years. This credibility was estimated by the use of Kalman filter on measures of inflation expectations derived from the consumer survey, the Focus survey from BCB and on the yield curves of government bonds. The results provide evidence of the existence of three changes on inflationary credibility in the analyzed period: (i) sharp downturn in mid-2008; (ii) relative stability between early 2009 and mid-2010 (mid-2013, for Focus measure); (iii) a downward trend since then, when there was a real interest rate below the minimum compatible with the inflation target. Besides, inflationary credibility estimated from the consumer pooling showed a more erratic behavior than the others, with a tendency to fall more intensely from the beginning of 2013 and remaining at levels close to zero since then. At the same time, the results indicate that inflation changes are important for the prediction of the credibility estimated from consumer pooling, validating its backwardated characteristic and its construction from adaptive consumer expectations. The adopted methodology enables to develop real-time estimates of BCB credibility and to return quantitative assessment of the consistency of monetary policy on an inflation target regime. This work adds to the existing literature in implementing Svensson credibility test (1993) and in extending it within an econometric framework of state space, allowing the probabilistic estimation of the degree of credibility of the monetary policy implemented by the Brazilian monetary authority during the analyzed period. Finally, the third and final essay is an empirical study of the relationship between monetary policy, implemented by the BCB, and the Brazilian stock market. Using the Event Study methodology, this essay analyzes the effect of expected and unexpected components of monetary policy decisions on the Bovespa index returns and on thirty-five different stock returns. The results provide evidence that monetary policy has a significant effect on the stock market returns, and the reversal event in the direction of monetary policy tends to enhance the response of the stock market. The analysis on a sectorial basis indicates that the cyclical consumer sector is the most affected by this policy, while the public utility and the oil, gas and biofuels sectors are not significantly affected. Individual assets respond in a very heterogeneous way to monetary policy. However, when using the abnormal returns, we identified a strong reduction in the intensity and in the number of companies affected by monetary policy. Furthermore, monetary surprise is explained by unexpected variations in the unemployment rate, in the industrial production index and in the CPI. Nonetheless, monetary surprise is Granger caused by unexpected variations in the industrial production index, indicating the importance of this variable for monetary policy forecasting.