This dissertation examines the impacts of monetary shocks on investment decisions of firms located in Brazil to test the presence of the financial accelerator. Because of this, after a brief review of the literature, ...

Esta tese é composta por três ensaios em economia política. No primeiro ensaio, eu investigo o impacto da introdução de um mecanismo de incentivo, direcionado a prefeitos brasileiros, que visava melhorar o desempenho de ...

O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar a hipótese de que a estrutura a termo das taxas de juros é um bom indicador antecedente das trajetórias futuras da inflação e da atividade econômica, especificamente para o caso brasileiro, ...

The current financial system in Brazil has its key roots in the 1950s. At that time, several of the features were established, which are still in evidence today. Of course, there have been changes, mainly in the 1990s and ...

A common feature in programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the use of conditionalities, macroeconomic and structural measures that a requesting country should adopt to obtain an assistance package. The objective ...

This note addresses the question 'To what extent financial regulation in Brazil was effective in neutralizing the tendency to the overvaluation of the exchange rate in Brazil since the 1994 Real Plan?' Aiming at answering ...

There is divergence between Lara Resende (1982) and Cysne (1993) about what was determine to not to obey of monetary target that serve how an instruments of inflation combat on PAEG´s. To understand what happened, we rebuild ...