The analysis of the main features of the international financial architecture that contributed to the deepening of the financial crisis allows to outline the necessary reforms in the supervision and regulation. To be effective, such reforms would have to be international in scope and include...

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...

The analysis of the main features of the international financial architecture that contributed to the deepening of the financial crisis allows to outline the necessary reforms in the supervision and regulation. To be effective, such reforms would have to be international in scope and include...

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...

Portuguese Abstract: Com o intuito de tentar captar o comportamento incentivado pela LRF no âmbito dos governos locais, este trabalho visou construir e analisar indicadores de performance para observar a tendência da gestão fiscal e da qualidade do gasto nos municípios nos períodos pré e...

Portuguese Abstract: A literatura econômica documenta que eventos extremos podem induzir alterações na propensão ao risco. Este estudo investiga se a crise 2008/2009 afetou o comportamento de investimento em diversos ativos, financeiros e reais, por parte de dezenas de milhares de cidadãos...

Portuguese Abstract: Em uma economia emergente, na qual seus governos gastam com o serviço de sua dívida um volume de recursos igual ou superior ao que se despende com muitos dos gastos sociais antes mencionados, nunca é demais conhecer e refletir sobre o citado endividamento governamental....

Starting with Lehman Brother’s demise in September 2008, the Brazilian real fell 42% vis-à-vis the US dollar. Such large exchange rate depreciation would typically cheer exporters up. However, it was later found that many export firms, including multibillion dollar ones, had suffered large...