This paper deals with a macroeconomic coordination and its stabilization within a new Keynesian framework. The dynamic treatment of a twocountry model is made by simulation, using the linear quadratic algorithm. We compare the optimal monetary policy rule for three types of equilibria:...

In the late 80’s Pasinetti showed that the essential feature of the Cambridge Equation is preserved in his model of growth and income distribution with balanced or unbalanced budget. He did not work out both the share of incomes and the conditions of stability and was not formally concerned...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the sustainability conditions of the Brazilian public debt since the Real Plan in July 1994. A new concept of liquidity public debt is introduced which is discussed in terms of GDP shares. Its absolute growth is divided among components and its...

The last two decades in Brazil are characterized by low growth in income per capita, financial turmoil, increasing unemployment, dismal distribution of income (and wealth), rent-seeking speculation and dissatisfaction with the outcome of neo-liberal policies. It was in this context that Luiz...

Our purpose in this paper is to extend and to apply the pure labour model proposed by Pasinetti (1981, 1993) in a closed dual economy in order to discuss employment problem from the economic dualism point of view, developed by W. Arthur Lewis (1954), within the production framework. Emphasis is...

The paper shows some of the main contributions of Celso Furtado in Brazilian economic development. First, it is treated some aspects of his contributions to the structuralist theory and his role as policy maker in that process. After that, some specific aspects of Furtado’s analysis are...

We consider the concept of Macrodynamic Capability, exploring an heterodox content whose analytical foundation is derived from a number of scholars of diverse ideological conceptions which casts light on the different ways that economies deal with the role and impact of institutional, monetary...

This paper analyse the influences of speculative capital movements on exchange rate levels and its volatility in Brazil. Approaches based only in fundamentals are unable to explain some empirical regularity. The speculative behaviour needs to be considered. In particular, empirical works...