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Brazil: an empirical study on fiscal policy transmission

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Brazil: an empirical study on fiscal policy transmission

Autor: Moreira, Tito Belchior S. Descripción física: páginas. 187-205 Data: abril 2011 Signatura: LC/G.2487-P

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This article sets out to empirically determine whether the ratiobetween debt and gross domestic product (GDP); affected real and nominalvariables such as the demand for money, the nominal interest rate,investment and the output gap, between January 1995 and March 2008.The specific aim is to identify fiscal-policy transmission channels and decidewhether this policy was active or passive in the period in question. Thestudy finds empirical evidence that fiscal policy was active and monetarypolicy passive -features that characterize a non-Ricardian model.