Fiscal Sustainability and Monetary Versus Fiscal Dominance : Evidence From Brazil, 1991-2000 /

Under a monetary dominant (MD) regime, the primary surplus adjusts to limit debt growth, permitting monetary policy to be conducted independently of fiscal financing requirements. In Brazil, some evidence favors an MD regime for 1995-97, but not for the decade of the 1990s as a whole. While fiscal a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanner, Evan
Other Authors: Ramos, Alberto
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/005
Online Access:Full text available on IMF