The objective of this paper is to evaluate the long-run regional impacts of tariff policy of the Brazilian electric power sector. The structural reforms carried on this sector determined the emergence of two different spatial distribution trends of the electric power tariffs among the Brazilian...

The Brazilian economy, with significant differencesin the distribution of economic activity acrossregions, presents a challenge to models that adopt aperfectly competitive market structure. This paperemploys an interregional CGE model of the Brazilianeconomy to explore the long-run impacts...

By exploring the implications of a Multi-Sector Thirlwall’s Law, this paper reports empirical exercises that contribute to an understanding of the relationship between structural change, external constraint and growth in Brazil in the 1962-2006 period. Given the sectoral nature of these...

We study the dynamics of an inflation targeting regime in a macroeconomic context represented by a three-equation model (IS curve, Phillips curve and interest rate rule) and with heterogeneous strategies to form expectations of inflation. Economic agents choose between using the official...