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LatAm Webinar Replay: Reforms Galore - Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Apr 2023
Visit our calendar page to watch the replay of our webinar featuring Affonso Pastore, Robert Funk, Juan Carlos Echeverry and Mauricio Gonzalez discussing how proposed reforms to pension systems, fiscal rules, and tax policies are likely to impact Latin America's largest markets in an event moder...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 03 Apr 2023
Below we examine the political contradictions of the government and some details and implications of the new fiscal framework. A feeling of perplexity has crystallized about the behavior of President Lula and the paralysis of his government during its first three months, the “honeymoon” period...
The War Against the Central Bank
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 27 Mar 2023
The Central Bank, aware of the need to keep monetary policy in restrictive territory, kept the SELIC rate at 13.75% at the last COPOM meeting, and stated that it will not hesitate to increase the rate if necessary. A level-headed analysis of the projections clearly shows that if the monetary auth...
COPOM, FOMC and ECB: Central Banks Carrying Out Their Mandates
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 20 Mar 2023
Robert Mundell, who won a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1999, expressed the “principle of effective market classification”, advocating the use of each economic policy instrument in pursuit of the objective with the greatest efficiency. The instrument that has a “comparative advantage” to stanch a ...
Navigating with Instruments in a Dense Fog
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Forecast · 13 Mar 2023
When the government’s economic team is specialized in sending noise instead of signals generated by a good diagnosis, good results cannot be expected. For 2023, we expect GDP growth of 1%, a major deceleration with regard to the result in 2022, of 2.9%. This expansion will only be attained due to...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Mar 2023
Just In the few weeks since assuming office, the new government has been repeating the imprudent pattern of confronting the limits imposed on its power by the established rules, as is typical of autocracies of the right or left. Unlike Bolsonaro, who left decisions on economic questions largely i...
The Deceleration of GDP And the Possible Reaction of the Government
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Mar 2023
If the decline of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2022 had been a fleeting event, followed by recovery, there would be no worry about the government’s reaction. But this was not a temporary deceleration, but rather a persistent one. Despite the expansionary fiscal policy, monetary policy has been in...
The Cost of Reducing Inflation
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 27 Feb 2023
It is becoming increasingly clear that the process of reducing inflation in the world will be long and costly, with risks of recession in the United States and Brazil. In the USA, the latest data indicate that the 12-month rate of the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) has starte...
External Accounts – The Bright Spot of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 23 Feb 2023
The environment is fraught with uncertainties, but in these turbulent waters, the outlook for the external account remains favorable. Although in 2022 the country’s balance of payments was in the red by US$ 7.3 billion (versus a surplus of US$ 14 billion in 2021), the trade balance was positive a...
Populism, Inflation Target and Expectations
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 13 Feb 2023
With high inflation and clear evidence of slowing growth – which is nothing more than the cost paid to reduce inflation – President Lula has opened a campaign to increase the inflation target. With a discourse typical of a left-wing populist, he is accusing the Central Bank of protecting the elit...
Synthesis of the Brazilian Economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Feb 2023
Just over a month since taking office, Lula has begun indicating what he intends to accomplish in his third term. What has emerged is not the statesman who promised to unify the country around an inclusive development project in his inaugural address. Instead, he has rapidly returned to feeding t...
What is the Best Fiscal Risk Premium Measure: Exchange Rate, Stock Market Index or Yield Curve?
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 30 Jan 2023
The absence of a fiscal framework results in a risk premium that is manifested in the prices of assets, such as the exchange rate, stock prices and the position and slope of the yield curve. Although in evaluating the reactions to the information related to fiscal policy, we look at these three p...
The Mistake of Raising the Inflation Target
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 23 Jan 2023
The necessary condition to achieve the goals of accelerating economic growth and improving the distribution of income is to enact micro and macroeconomic reforms. But this is only one condition, which depends on Congress. The other, which depends exclusively on the Central Bank and the fiscal aut...
Webinar replay: Latin America Outlook 2023: Political risks and macro shifts
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 20 Jan 2023
Going into 2023, how will the outlook for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru be shaped by growth and inflation, fiscal and debt dynamics, and political risks? Visit our calendar page to watch the replay of our webinar "Latin America Outlook 2023: Political risks and macro shifts" for insight into ...
The First Package: “Much Ado About Nothing”.
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 17 Jan 2023
Last week, measures were announced aiming to reduce the primary deficit in 2023 (summarized in Table 1). The largest part of the adjustment falls on the revenue side, based on revenues’ reestimation and increase, along with some temporary spending cuts. However, given the nature of Brazil’s fisca...