The adoption of the inflation target regime raises the question of the determinationof the target to be aimed. Monetary models show that this rate is negative and almostzero. However, countries have adopted a target of inflation between 2%-3%. The goalof this paper is to include a fiscal...

In the 1990s the idea that capital account liberalization represented a mechanism fordisciplining the conduction of the monetary policy in the search for price stabilitywas developed. Based on this argument, a new version of Gruben e McLeod?s (2001)model applying a dynamic public debt constraint...

On this paper, we propose a change in the primary surplus´ target by the government current account saving. This concept excludes public investment from primary surplus. However, of this change has raised a question about if government current account saving represents a sustainable fiscal...

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...

In the beginning of 2007 Dos Santos e Pires (2007, henceforth DS&P) reported estimates close to minus one for the (gross, aggregate, long run) tax rate semi elasticity of Brazilian private investment in the post-Real Plan period. This paper has two basic goals, i.e. i) to revise DS&P´s data and...

Programas governamentais, como a Política de Garantia de Preços Mínimos (PGPM), podem ter importante influência na formação dos preços de produtos agrícolas. Entretanto, mudanças recentes nos instrumentos de intervenção podem ter alterado o papel destes programas na determinação dos...