banks can help mitigate financial shocks. This paper examines the role of Brazil's government banks in preventing a … recession during the 2008-2010 financial crisis. Government banks in Brazil provided more credit, which offset declines in … lending by private banks. Areas in Brazil with a high share of government banks experienced increases in lending, production …

This paper presents an innovative data set of judicial indicators in Brazil, based on the contents of court digital …

revenues and expenditures are linked to the business cycle in Brazil, particularly after the introduction of the Fiscal …-cyclical fiscal policy in Brazil at the state level. However, the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility Law helped to reduce …