Optimal public debt and the connection between economic growth, financial development and tax cycles: Empirical evidence for the Brazilian economy
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https://doi.org/10.55532/1806-8944.2021.130Keywords:
Fiscal cycles, economic growth, credit cycle, GMM, Optimal level of public debtAbstract
This monograph evaluates the effects of tax policy, based on tax cycles variables, in addition to the effects of nominal and real credit cycles on economic growth, considering monthly time series from 1996:03 to 2020:06. Based on simultaneous equation models, via GMM, the following empirical results were obtained. On the one hand, the primary surplus (%GDP) cycles respond positively to the public debt (%GDP) cycles. On the other hand, the primary surplus cycle and the cycle of the difference between the real interest rate and the growth rate have negative and positive impacts, respectively, on the public debt cycle (%GDP). In addition, the growth rate of the economy is positively affected by the credit and primary surplus cycles (%GDP) and negatively by the public debt. Finally, based on Cointegration models, the optimal level of public debt lies between 26% and 27% of GDP.
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Silva Moreira, T. B. (2021). Optimal public debt and the connection between economic growth, financial development and tax cycles: Empirical evidence for the Brazilian economy . CADERNOS DE FINANÇAS PÚBLICAS, 21(01). https://doi.org/10.55532/1806-8944.2021.130
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