Um evento econômico que os formuladores de política têm enfrentado nas últimas décadas na América Latina é a questão do comportamento fiscal dos governos e a conseqüente (in)sustentabilidade da dívida pública e os seus efeitos sobre a economia. Portanto, a política fiscal desempenha...

The current account deficits that reached the critical proportions together with the acceleration of the globalization process, have exited considerable interest among researchers and policy makers. To have a clear understanding of its role in macroeconomic outcomes, a lot of researches were...

This paper examines the growing gap between the theoretical and empirical growth literature and policy needs of the developing economies. Growth literature has focused mainly on long term growth outcomes, but policy makers of the developing economies need rapid improvements in the short to...

In this paper we unify the traditional approaches to testing for fiscal sustainability considering the stock-flow system that fiscal variables configure. Our approach encompasses previous ways of testing for sustainability. The results obtained for a group of 17 OECD countries point to weak...

In this paper we unify the traditional approaches to testing for fiscal sustainability considering the stock-flow system that fiscal variables configure. Our approach encompasses previous ways of testing for sustainability. The results obtained for a group of 17 OECD countries point to weak...

We assess the existence of fiscal regime shifts in the U.K., Germany, and Italy, using Markov switching fiscal rules. On the basis of a newly built quarterly data set, our results show the existence of fiscal regimes shifts, sometimes coupled with regime switches also regarding monetary...

we characterise fiscal policy in terms of non-linear processes. We find that government spending and taxes can be described as being non-linear trend stationary processes instead of unit roots. A long run equilibrium relationship - a non-linear co-trend - does exist between the two series,...

The current account deficits that reached the critical proportions together with the acceleration of the globalization process, have exited considerable interest among researchers and policy makers. To have a clear understanding of its role in macroeconomic outcomes, a lot of researches were...

In this paper we unify the traditional approaches to testing for …s- cal sustainability considering the stock-ow system that …scal variables con…gure. Our approach encompasses previous ways of testing for sus- tainability. The results obtained for a group of 17 OECD countries point to weak...

In this paper we unify the traditional approaches to testing for fiscal sustainability considering the stock-flow system that fiscal variables configure. Our approach encompasses previous ways of testing for sustainability. The results obtained for a group of 17 OECD countries point to weak...