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COUNTRY INSIGHTS
The Good Trade Balance and Current Account Balance Results
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 17 Jul 2023
Due to another rising cycle of international commodity prices, Brazil’s trade balance has improved significantly since 2020. According to Secex data, in the 12 months through June there was a surplus of US$ 72 billion, with exports of US$ 336 billion and imports worth US$ 263 billion. These expor...
Global Inflation and Slower Growth: Consequences For Brazil
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 10 Jul 2023
The pandemic was an unprecedented event that triggered a wave of fiscal and monetary stimulus measures, together leading to an outbreak of inflation around the world. The United States and the Euro Zone, which together account for almost 40% of global GDP, established fiscal stimulus actions that...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 03 Jul 2023
The ineligibility of Bolsonaro can soften the current political polarization if the other side of the political spectrum adopts a constructive stance. Much is in play in Congress, which has two weeks to reach decisions on important themes like the fiscal framework, tax reform and CARF rules, amon...
The Copom’s Decision and Definition of the Inflation Target
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 26 Jun 2023
At its last meeting, the COPOM kept the Selic rate at 13.75%, and besides making it clear that “The current context, characterized by a stage in which the disinflationary process tends to be slower and in an environment of de-anchored inflation expectations continues to require caution and parsim...
Neutral Interest Rate and Fiscal Policy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 20 Jun 2023
When all the empirical evidence indicates that inflation expectations are anchored to the target, the Central Bank will begin a monetary easing cycle. Our objective in this report is not to examine when this cycle will start, but rather what the terminal interest rate will likely be. According to...
Behavior of the Yield Curve Reflects Implicit Inflation Rates
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 12 Jun 2023
In recent days, the nominal rates at the long end of the yield curve (DI curve) have fallen. That movement predominantly reflects the decline of the implicit inflation rates, with a smaller reduction of real interest rates. Before the approval of the fiscal framework, the real interest rates on t...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Jun 2023
The avalanche of failures in the domestic political sphere and in the country’s positions in diplomatic questions requires a rearrangement. The luck of expanding GDP will not last long, and the negative effects of the fiscal-monetary conflict will persist. UNEXPECTED DEFEATS IN THE COUNTRY AND...
Monetary Policy and Fiscal Expansion
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 30 May 2023
Asked by an interviewer about the reasons for the Central Bank’s “stubbornness” in keeping the interest rate high, Campos Neto responded that a real interest rate for 10 years of around 6% a year has nothing to do with monetary policy, and is instead the fault of fiscal policy. Unfortunately, due...
Effects of the Fiscal-Monetary Conflict
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 22 May 2023
Whether measured by the one-year ex-ante real interest rate or by our financial conditions index, monetary policy is more restrictive than during the recession of 2014-16. Nevertheless, the economic activity data for the first quarter of 2023 show that the economy, at least until then, was recove...
The Path to Fiscal Dominance
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 15 May 2023
In an article published in 1981, Sargent and Wallace described the evolution of a non-cooperative game between a fiscal authority and a politically independent monetary authority. If the fiscal authority expands spending, leading to unsustainable growth of the public debt, the monetary authority ...
The Decision of the COPOM
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 08 May 2023
At the last COPOM meeting, the SELIC rate was kept at 13.75%. With a serene tone and clear technical support, the Central Bank’s communiqué stated clearly there was no outlook for the foreseeable future to start an easing cycle. Besides the conflict between restrictive monetary policy and expansi...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 02 May 2023
Below we describe how the government is losing support both in Brazil and abroad, and the aggravation of the fiscal-monetary conflict, culminating in slower growth and prolongation of high interest rates and inflation. Without a master plan to define his third mandate able to identify bearings...
The Fiscal Framework Proposal
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 24 Apr 2023
The fiscal framework bill sent to Congress confirms what we already knew: the only guarantee is higher spending in real terms, growing within an interval of 0.6% to 2.5% a year. The text does not contain any punishments for failing to meet the primary surplus targets, which are mere indications. ...
Caution Is in Order Regarding Cutting the Interest Rate
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 17 Apr 2023
Last week, bets grew about an early start of the monetary easing cycle, before the end of the second quarter. The optimism was not due to the quality of the fiscal framework announced by the government, but rather to the deceleration of the 12-month rate of the IPCA to 4.6% (5.6% a month ago). In...
A Framework That Falls Short of Resolving the Fiscal Problem
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 10 Apr 2023
Given the need to reduce the public debt, the only fiscal framework that makes sense is one that assures reaching of sufficiently high primary surpluses to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, the government’s proposal fails in this task. The arithmetic of the new framework seems impeccable. After a...