The aim of this paper is to study the effects of public debt management on yield curve spreads in Brazil, in order to see possible impacts on the country's economic activity. State space models, together with Kalman Filter estimators, are used for the period ranging from June 2002 to February...

La crisis financiera internacional que afectó a la economía brasileña en el tercer trimestre de 2008 exigió varias respuestas de política económica. Con respecto a la política fiscal, las medidas expansionistas adoptadas culminaron con la inviabilidad de la meta fiscal formalmente...

The effects of the capital account liberalization on the fiscal policy: an evaluation of the recent Brazilian case. In recent years there has been some agreement that capital account liberalization have provided restriction on economic policies. This paper provides some evidence for Brazil. It...