Fiscal sustainability and monetary versus fiscal dominance: evidence from Brazil, 1991-2000

Evan Tanner () and Alberto Ramos

Applied Economics, 2003, vol. 35, issue 7, 859-873

Abstract: Under a monetary dominant (MD) regime, the primary surplus adjusts to limit debt growth, permitting monetary policy to be conducted independently of fiscal financing requirements. In Brazil, some evidence favours an MD regime for 1995-1997, but not for the decade of the 1990s as a whole. While fiscal adjustments of 1999 yielded a primary surplus of about 3% of GDP, consistent with solvency, a credible MD regime would require further adjustments of the primary surplus if debt increases, growth falls, or interest rates rise.

Date: 2003
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