The evaluation of forecasts performance of market expectations about the Brazilian inflation rate (Focus survey) is …) showed that, in the period 2000.1 2005.4, several models had superior forecast ability than the mean of market inflation rate …

This paper aims to discuss the determinants of Brazilian inflation measured by the Extended National Consumer Price … more influence on inflation are ordered by the so-called Inflation Targeting Pressure Index (ITPI), designed to measure the … function method, with monthly data from 1999 to 2009 to estimate the macroeconomic determinants of inflation in the 22 …

This paper presents estimates for Brazilian inflation during the 2000s. The results of a structural model with two … endogenous variables - wage inflation and consumer inflation - indicate that: i) the demand indicator was not statistically … significant in the consumer inflation, but it was important to explain wage inflation; ii) variations in the exchange rate and in …

persistent decline in the debt-to-GDP ratio; ii) the CPI inflation and the interest outlays represent state variables in the …