Renegociação da dívida interna mobiliária : uma proposta

This article develops arguments in favor of recomposing the time to maturityof the domestic public bond's debt and presents calcul.ations on the amount of tax required by different terms of payment of that debt, assuming that it is rescheduled. Tv..'O alternatives are presented ~nd evaluated. Alternative one offers a collateral for the principal owed and calculates' the. flow of interest in relation to GDP during the repayment period . Alternative two is based on making.gradual and small down~payments to repay the old debt within a newinstitutional framework. Both alternatives yield a substantial alleviation of the interest burden compared to the present policy. The main conclusion is that with a dollar long-term ·interest rate similar to the ones observed in the international markets -- about 8%~ year -- and a 3% a year GDP growth rate, the domestic public debt could be paid in 20 years if a yearly provision of only 0,6% of GDP is allocated to its payment.

Fiscal policy in Brazil: from counter-cyclical response to crisis

The main goal of this article is to identify the dynamic effects of fiscal policy on output in Brazil from 1997 to 2014, and, more specifically, to estimate those effects when the output falls below its potential level. To do so, we estimate VAR (vector autoregressive) models to generate impulse-response functions and causality/endogeneity tests. Our most remarkable results indicate the following channel of economic policy in Brazil: to foster output, government spending increases causing increases in both tax rates and revenue and the short-term interest rate. A fiscal stimulus via spending seems efficient for economic performance as well as monetary policy; however, the latter operates pro-cyclically in the way we defined here, while the former is predominantly countercyclical. As the monetary shock had a negative effect on GDP growth and GDP growth responded positively to the fiscal shock, it seems that the economic policy has given poise to growth with one hand and taken it with the other one. The monetary policy is only reacting to the fiscal stimuli. We were not able to find any statistically significant response of the output to tax changes, but vice versa seems work in the Brazilian case.

Crescimento econômico e restrição externa da economia brasileira: uma análise do padrão das exportações em relação ao BRIC e do Sistema de Inovação do Brasil (1980-2012)

This Master s Thesis aims to use the theoretical models of growth with restricted balance of payments, specifically Kaldor (1970) and Thirlwall (1979) models, to analyze the behavior and the pattern of specialization of Brazilian exports and imports in the last years. It is observed that, in some periods, the pattern of specialization has contributed in restricting long-term growth of the Brazilian economy. It has been hypothesized that overall this is due to lack of structural transformation policies. To achieve this goal, it analyzed the performance of Brazilian exports and imports disaggregating them according to their technological content. The basis for comparison was a group of countries to which Brazil is inserted in, the BRIC. In this regard, the work is a comparative analysis by using descriptive statistics. It is concluded that the low rate of GDP growth experienced by Brazil since the 1980s can be explained in part by the decoupling of the Brazilian National Innovation System (NIS) and the Brazilian productive structure. This would be reducing the income elasticity of exports and raising imports, causing a pattern of specialization intensive primary commodities and labor and low-skill labor

Long term economic relationships from cointegration maps

We employ the Bayesian framework to define a cointegration measure aimed to represent long term relationships between time series. For visualization of these relationships we introduce a dissimilarity matrix and a map based on the sorting points into neighborhoods (SPIN) technique, which has been previously used to analyze large data sets from DNA arrays. We exemplify the technique in three data sets: US interest rates (USIR), monthly inflation rates and gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2004

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Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2005

Includes bibliography

Summit of the Americas 1994-2009: selected indicators

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Inflation targeting works well in Latin America

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República Dominicana: evolución económica durante 2005 y perspectivas para 2006

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El papel del mercado interno en la dinamización del crecimiento en la subregión norte de América Latina

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República Dominicana: evolución económica durante 2006 y perspectivas para 2007

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Nicaragua: evolución económica durante 2008 y perspectivas para 2009

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El Salvador: evolución económica durante 2008 y perspectivas para 2009

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Haití: evolución económica durante 2008 y perspectivas para 2009

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Global economic developments, 2000-2001

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