This paper aims to show that the fiscal and monetary counter-cyclical actions implemented by Brazilian government after the financial crisis were frugal: the monetary policy was late and slowly slackened and the fiscal policy sustain a primary surplus budget, in the opposite direction of much...

This article investigates the effects of monetary policy shock in the Brazilian real state market using structural VAR through the period June/2000 to August/2010. The identification is done following the agnostic procedure suggested by Uhlig (2005). The mains results are: The stock of credit to...

Conselho Monetário, Banco Central e Tesouro : origens e evolução -- Uma relação delicada : quadro legal e institucional -- A Lei 11,803/08 e a expansão do balanço do Banco Central -- Usos e abusos da conta única, das compromissadas e das reservas cambiais -- Mudança de regime fiscal no...