This paper aims to shed light on the dynamics of Brazilian services inflation in the 1999-2014 years. In order to do that, it first identifies all disaggregated components of the Brazilian consumer price index (IPCA) that can be characterized as services. These components are then translated...

How does Brazilian private investment respond to increases in the gross tax burden? An econometric investigation. This article aims to offer three contributions to the debate on the recent performance of the Brazilian economy. First, it presents approximate quarterly figures for the Brazilian...

Este trabalho busca entender o comportamento recente da política fiscal à luz da experiênciabrasileira de liberalização na conta de capital. A análise, entre 1995 e 2000,representa um período de elevada liberalização na conta de capital e um comportamentoda política fiscal que pode ser...

Este artigo tem por objetivo avaliar como a administração da dívida pública no Brasil afetou a sua sustentabilidade no período 1996-2007. A partir de 2003 o gerenciamento da dívida brasileira buscou alterar a combinação entre custo e risco,privilegiando o primeiro. Ao utilizar modelos...

Este artigo objetiva avaliar a relação entre liberalização da conta capital, performance econômica e estabilidade macroeconômica no Brasil. Para tanto, além de uma revisão da literatura, o artigo realiza uma avaliação empírica dos efeitos da liberalização financeira no Brasil sobre...

This article attempts to offer three specific contributions to the current debate on the macroeconomic impacts of taxation in Brazil and the ?trade-off? between taxation/income distribution and growth available to Brazilians. First, it attempts to ?map? the (relatively small) recent econometric...

This article aims to evaluate the health development of the Brazilian municipalities systems. To do that was constructed two kinds of health index for each 5.507 Brazilian municipalities. The vulnerability index is the first one. To compare the evaluation of the spatial vulnerability structure...

The paper aims to study fiscal data of primary surplus expectation and debt expectation. The results showed gains of credibility in the Brazilian fiscal policy conduct because financial markets expecting less debt for near future. In addition, expectations that debt will grow up raises...