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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155012803321

Titolo

Brazil : : Selected Issues

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-5323-4

1-4755-5329-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

IMF Staff Country Reports

Soggetti

Foreign Exchange

Investments: Futures

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Social Security and Public Pensions

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Pensions

Currency

Foreign exchange

Public finance & taxation

Finance

Pension spending

Futures

Exchange rates

Aging

Expenditure

Financial institutions

Prices

Population and demographics

Derivative securities



Expenditures, Public

Consumption

Economics

Business cycles

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This paper assesses the importance of financial market developments for the business cycle in Brazil. The results underscore the importance of macro-financial linkages and highlight risks to the recovery going forward. Although some of the rise in credit growth in Brazil can be attributed to financial deepening and rising income levels, it may have implications for economic activity going forward. Cross-country evidence suggests that periods of easy financial conditions can amplify economic fluctuations and possibly lead to adverse economic outcomes. To explore the nexus between the financial cycle and business cycle, cycles are estimated using a variety of commonly-used statistical methods and with a small, semi-structural model of the Brazilian economy. An advantage of using the model-based approach is that financial and business cycles can be jointly estimated, allowing information from all key economic relationships to be used in a consistent way. Financial sector developments are found to be an important source of macroeconomic fluctuations. Financial accelerator models highlight the role of credit and asset prices in shaping the business cycle.