Analyzing the evolution of the main revenues and expenditure government accounts, this paper describes the behavior of the public sector during the period 1890/1945. Not only because its importance in terms of the volume of resources that allocates, but also because data availability, the study...

This work aims to analyze if the trajectory and composition of net and gross, public debt and external liabilities can hinder the growth of Brazilian GDP. The work concludes that fiscal indicators are more comfortable that external indicators. The net public debt is falling and less linked to...

This paper examines whether fiscal illusion can help to explain the behavior of federal government expenditures in Brazil during period 1990-2011. The analyses is based on a median voter model that admits that the degree of tax visibility may affect the individual’s perception of his tax...