Reflexos do plano real sobre as financeiras

Neste artigo analisamos um setor específico da intermediação financeira, particularmente afetado pelas medidas de contenção ao crédito implantadas no contexto do Plano Real, ao final de 1994, com o objetivo de analisar o ocorrido sob a ótica do agente regulado. Neste período, algumas instituições de crédito tiveram seus negócios ampliados, ao mesmo tempo em que, para outras, houve redução. Com base nos demonstrativos contábeis de oito SCFIs independentes (não vinculadas a bancos múltiplos) referentes aos exercícios de 1994 e 1995, estabelecem-se alguns resultados indicativos do desempenho desse segmento neste último ano. Conclui-se que a rentabilidade do patrimônio líquido das instituições analisadas apresentou uma redução da ordem de 32%, passando de 25,31% em 1994 para 17,18% em 1995. Trata-se de um resultado melhor do que o obtido pelo conjunto de bancos múltiplos de pequeno porte, cuja rentabilidade caiu de 20,2% em 1994 para 4,3% em 1995.

Yet another reason to tax goods

The optimal taxation of goods, labor and capital income is considered in a two period model where: i) private information changes through time; ii) savings are not observed, and; iii) savings a§ect preferences conditional on the realization of types. The simultaneous appearance of these three elements cause optimal commodity taxes to depend on o§-equilibrium savings. As a consequence, separability no longer su¢ ces for the uniform taxation prescription of Atkinson and Stiglitz (AS) to obtain. If preferences are homothetic AS is partially restored: taxes are uniform within periods, however, future consumption is taxed at a higher rate than current consumption.

On the differentiability of the consumer demand function

For strictly quasi concave differentiable utility functions, demand is shown to be differentiable almost everywhere if marginal utilities are pointwise Lipschitzian. For concave utility functions, demand is differentiable almost everywhere in the case of differentiable additively separable utility or in the case of quasi-linear utility.

A search-theoretic explanation for the negative correlation between labor income and impatience

Lawrance (1991) has shown, through the estimation of consumption Euler equations, that subjective rates of impatience (time preference) in the U.S. are three to Öve percentage points higher for households with lower average labor incomes than for those with higher labor income. From a theoretical perspective, the sign of this correlation in a job-search model seems at Örst to be undetermined, since more impatient workers tend to accept wage o§ers that less impatient workers would not, thereby remaining less time unemployed. The main result of this paper is showing that, regardless of the existence of e§ects of opposite sign, and independently of the particular speciÖcations of the givens of the model, less impatient workers always end up, in the long run, with a higher average income. The result is based on the (unique) invariant Markov distribution of wages associated with the dynamic optimization problem solved by the consumers. An example is provided to illustrate the method.

Alguns aspectos macro e microeconomicos da economia brasileira pos-Real

Analisam-se neste trabalho alguns aspectos macro e microeconômicos da economia brasileira Pós-Real. Do ponto de vista macroeconômico, aborda-se a troca de imposto inflacionário por poupança externa no fInanciamento do défIcit operacional do setor público, a evolução da denominação da dívida pública federal, bem como a pertinência de diferentes regimes cambiais em um ambiente de instabilidade de funções macroeconômicas. Inclui-se também nesta seção uma breve e simplifIcada simulação da evolução da renda per-capta em caso de elevação do nível de investimentos de 20% para 25% do PIB. Do ponto de vista microeconômico, apresentam-se algumas reflexões pertinentes às áreas de privatização, regulação e defesa da concorrência.

The effects of longevity and distortions on education and retirement

This article studies the impact of longevity and taxation on life-cycle decisions and long-run income. Individuals allocate optimally their total lifetime between education, working and retirement. They also decide at each moment how much to save or consume out of their income, and after entering the labor market how to divide their time between labor and leisure. The model incorporates experience-earnings profiles and the return-to-education function that follows evidence from the labor literature. In this setup, increases in longevity raises the investment in education - time in school - and retirement. The model is calibrated to the U.S. and is able to reproduce observed schooling levels and the increase in retirement, as the evidence shows. Simulations show that a country equal to the U.S. but with 20% smaller longevity will be 25% poorer. In this economy, labor taxes have a strong impact on the per capita income, as it decreases labor effort, time at school and retirement age, in addition to the general equilibrium impact on physical capital. We conclude that life-cycle effects are relevant in analyzing the aggregate outcome of taxation.

On the statistical estimation of diffusion processes: a survey

Data available on continuos-time diffusions are always sampled discretely in time. In most cases, the likelihood function of the observations is not directly computable. This survey covers a sample of the statistical methods that have been developed to solve this problem. We concentrate on some recent contributions to the literature based on three di§erent approaches to the problem: an improvement of the Euler-Maruyama discretization scheme, the use of Martingale Estimating Functions and the application of Generalized Method of Moments (GMM).