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Public debt sustainability and endogenous seignorage in Braziltime-series evidence from 1947-92

Issler, João Victor; Lima, Luiz Renato Regis de Oliveira

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Using national accounts data for the revenue-GDP and expenditure GDP ratios from 1947 to 1992, we examine two central issues in public finance. First, was the path of public debt sustainable during this period? Second, if debt is sustainable, how has the government historically balanced the budget after hocks to either revenues or expenditures? The results show that (i) public deficit is stationary (bounded asymptotic variance), with the budget in Brazil being balanced almost entirely through changes in taxes, regardless of the cause of the initial imbalance. Expenditures are weakly exogenous, but tax revenues are not;(ii) a rational Brazilian consumer can have a behavior consistent with Ricardian Equivalence (iii) seignorage revenues are critical to restore intertemporal budget equilibrium, since, when we exclude them from total revenues, debt is not sustainable in econometric tests.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
1997
Instituição
Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/634

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