Public debt, government current account saving and primary surplus: analysis of sustainability. On this paper, we propose a change in the primary surplus' target by the government current account saving. That concept excludes public investment from primary surplus. However, of that change has...

This paper deals with the role of the public debt on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. An IS function where the Ricardian Equivalence does not prevail and Phillips curve are estimated by full information maximum likelihood (FIML), General Method of Moments (GMM) and bootstrap...

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...