Based on the hypothesis that the rulers of monetary and fiscal policy in Brazil may have been submitted to different regimes, the present study applies Leeper model (1991; 2005) in order to identify the chronology of policy regimes regarding their active and passive character. The policy rules are...

The preservation of biodiversity is one of the most important matters in environmental economics. But, in general, the relevant trade-offs associated with the preservation option are not well known. The absence of a framework capable of relating theoretical and operational aspects is a...