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A single variable describes, day-by-day, what investors think about the state of Brazil's economy: the Brazilian … markets' assessment of the probability that Brazil might default on its debt obligations. This is mainly because the cost of … domestic interest rates, is thus the necessary first step in order to understand macroeconomic developments in Brazil. The …
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Brazilian debt crisis, and assesses the prospects for Brazil's sovereign debt after five years of the `muddling … 1978 and 1982, Brazil's current account shifted by $13 billion towards deficits. This shift can be explained, for the most … between 1978 and 1982, $35 billion (75% of Brazil's total net debt accumulation) can be accounted for by the adverse external …
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household labour income and poverty in Brazil. We first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to eleven …
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and land conflict on the frontiers of Australia, the U.S. and Brazil. We are particularly interested in examining the … claimants had reasons to organize collectively. The settlement process in Brazil was more prone to conflict because agriculture …
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We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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King-Fullerton methodology cannot assess the minimum-asset tax (MAT) because it cannot handle uncertainty. We present an alternative based on option pricing, and show how carry-over rules, depreciation conventions and uncertainty affect the MAT burden. Using Brazilian data, we show that: (a)...
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We use changes in Brazil’s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and …. We find that an increase in Brazil’s tax on foreign investment in bonds causes investors to significantly decrease their … portfolio allocations to Brazil in both bonds and equities. Investors simultaneously increase allocations to other countries …
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1980’s and 1990’s - Brazil and Colombia - we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we …
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Should rational agents take into consideration government policy announcements? A skilled agent (an econometrician) could set up a model to combine the following two pieces of information in order to anticipate the future course of fiscal policy in real-time: (i) the ex-ante path of policy as...
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Motivated the European debt crisis, we construct a tractable theory of sovereign debt and structural reforms under limited commitment. The government of a sovereign country which has fallen into a recession of an uncertain duration issues one-period debt and can renege on its obligations by...
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