Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208175 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-990
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994. This last period coincided with severe balance of payments problems and economic stagnation that followed the external debt crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960-1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal deficits, passive monetary policy, and constraints on debt financing. The transition to the low-in inflation period (1995-2016) was characterized by improvements in all of these features, but it did not lead to significant improvements in economic growth. In addition, we document a strong positive correlation between inflation rates and seignior age revenues, although in inflation rates are relatively high for modest levels of seignior age revenues. Finally, we discuss the role of the weak institutional framework surrounding the scale and monetary authorities and the role of monetary passiveness and in inflation indexation in accounting for the unique features of inflation dynamics in Brazil.
Subjects: 
Brazil's hyperinflation
Stabilization plans
Fiscal deficits
JEL: 
E42
E63
H62
H63
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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