This text proposes three adaptations related to disaggregations in the Brazilian National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in order to provide relevant data for studies on inflation in disaggregated cuts, in monthly periodicity from August 1999 to September 2014. In the first, the compatibilization...

It is proposed to estimate two versions of the potential output for Brazil in the period 1992-2010, through the production function and the HP filter, and use these results to: i) assess the relevance of the output gap in the monetary policy decisions (comparing the two estimates); and ii) to...

This paper provides a survey of the methodologies for estimating the structural budget balance and the fiscal impulse, which highlights the recent international literature spread by European Commission studies (Havik et al., 2014; Carnot e Castro, 2015). From this theoretical background, the paper...

It is proposed to estimate two versions of the potential output for Brazil in the period 1992-2010, through the production function and the HP filter, and use these results to: i) assess the relevance of the output gap in the monetary policy decisions (comparing the two estimates); and ii) to...

This text proposes three adaptations related to disaggregations in the Brazilian National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in order to provide relevant data for studies on inflation in disaggregated cuts, in monthly periodicity from August 1999 to September 2014. In the first, the compatibilization...

This paper provides a survey of the methodologies for estimating the structural budget balance and the fiscal impulse, which highlights the recent international literature spread by European Commission studies (Havik et al., 2014; Carnot e Castro, 2015). From this theoretical background, the paper...

Spanish Abstract: Indonesia ha sido tradicionalmente uno de los centros globales de abastecimiento de commodities, al punto que la búsqueda de una ruta alternativa a ella desencadena el descubrimiento de América. A pesar de su tradicional importancia, esta y muchas otras facetas suyas se...