The forecasting of government revenues is extremely important for an adequate budget execution, since a good accuracy in the estimation allows the stipulation of an expenditure level that meets the demands of the population. Using data released by the National Council of Treasury Policy, the...

We know from experience that weak economic growth increases the unemployment rate. In 1962 Okun proposed to measure potential output in terms of unemployment gap. From this relation a direct link between increase in unemployment and output growth was deduced, known as the Okun Law. This Law is...

The forecasting of government revenues is extremely important for an adequate budget execution, since a good accuracy in the estimation allows the stipulation of an expenditure level that meets the demands of the population. Using data released by the National Council of Treasury Policy, the...

We present a detailed survey of changes in the reserve requirement system in Brazil and analyze the system's main functions and goals during the period from 1994 to 2012. We identify four different subperiods with respect to the use of this policy tool. In the first subperiod, from july 1994 to...

The central purpose of this study is to assess the performance of the inflation targeting regime adopted in Brazil, in a context of high exchange rate volatility, as well as high public debt. In order to accomplish this, a Vector Autoregressive methodology was used. The results suggest that: i)...

Based on an interdisciplinary approach (economics, sociology, anthropology and history), this article aims at elucidating what can be called the nature of money, drawing from works published in Aglietta and Orléan (1998) and Théret (2006). The nature of money is to be related to its...

This paper develops a simple structuralist model to deal with the relationships between inflation and external adjustment policies in foreign-indebted economies facing strong reversals in capital inflows. Taking Latin American experiences in the eighties as a reference, the model attempts to...

O sistema monetário internacional passou por mudanças estruturais após 1971, com destaque para a introdução do padrão-dólar puro. Assim sendo, este artigo investiga a atualidade e os limites da teoria monetária de Marx em face a esses novos determinantes econômicos. Mostraremos a...

O artigo analisa a noção de capital fictício em Marx a partir das idéias de autonomia dos valores relativamente aos preços e de autonomia da circulação relativamente à produção. Explora, nesta análise, o debate sobre a forma valor entre marxistas, e a noção de capital financeiro,...

If we adopt a dialectical (Hegelian) reading of Marx’s theory of money, we can see that money contains within it the contradiction of commodity itself (between use-value and value) and in so doing, it contains different strata of contradiction that logically and historically have come to the...