Este artigo apresenta uma análise para a política fiscal brasileira no período 2000-2010 a partir da elaboração de um indicador de impulso fiscal. Os resultados obtidos mostram que houve uma postura expansionista entre 2000 e 2010. Entretanto, a análise a partir de cada ano permitiu...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze if the adoption of inflation targeting implies changes in the behavior of several macroeconomic variables, especially in the unemployment rate. For this, empirical evidences based on a set of fourteen countries that adopted explicit inflation...

In the 1990s the idea that capital account liberalization represented a mechanism for disciplining the conduction of the monetary policy in the search for price stability was developed. Based on this argument a new version of Gruben e McLeod's (2001) model and an empirical analysis were made for...