The effects of the capital account liberalization on the fiscal policy: an evaluation of the recent Brazilian case. In recent years there has been some agreement that capital account liberalization have provided restriction on economic policies. This paper provides some evidence for Brazil. It...

This paper aims to shed light on the dynamics of Brazilian services inflation in the 1999-2014 years. In order to do that, it first identifies all disaggregated components of the Brazilian consumer price index (IPCA) that can be characterized as services. These components are then translated...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of public debt management on yield curve spreads in Brazil, in order to see possible impacts on the country's economic activity. State space models, together with Kalman Filter estimators, are used for the period ranging from June 2002 to February...

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...