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Pro-Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Brazil : Evidence From the States / Arena, Marco
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Arena, Marco
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central government.
- Debt Markets.
- Expenditures.
- Federal transfers.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Fiscal federalism.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Fiscal variables.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Municipalities.
- Provinces.
- Revenue streams.
- State budget.
- State governments.
- Sub-national.
- Sub-national expenditures.
- Sub-national governments.
- Subnational.
- Subnational Economic Development.
- Subnational expenditures.
- Subnational governments.
- Tax.
- Tax base.
- Tax revenues.
- Local Subjects:
- Central government.
- Debt Markets.
- Expenditures.
- Federal transfers.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Fiscal federalism.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Fiscal variables.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Municipalities.
- Provinces.
- Revenue streams.
- State budget.
- State governments.
- Sub-national.
- Sub-national expenditures.
- Sub-national governments.
- Subnational.
- Subnational Economic Development.
- Subnational expenditures.
- Subnational governments.
- Tax.
- Tax base.
- Tax revenues.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages)
- Other Title:
- Pro-Cyclical Fiscal Policy In Brazil
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2009
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The empirical literature on budget cyclicality has generally focused more on assessing the degree of pro-cyclicality in federal (central government) revenues and expenditures and less on budget cyclicality at the sub-national level in multi-tiered systems. This paper attempts to contribute to the literature on budget cyclicality by examining how sub-national fiscal revenues and expenditures are linked to the business cycle in Brazil, particularly after the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility Law. It explains the degree of pro-cyclicality across Brazilian states, and assesses whether intergovernmental transfers help to stabilize states' finances. These issues are addressed using both a time-series and a cross-section dimension at the Brazilian state level for the period 1991-2006. The empirical evidence suggests the existence of a pro-cyclical fiscal policy in Brazil at the state level. However, the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility Law helped to reduce Brazilian states' spending-side pro-cyclicality. For the Brazilian states, the main source of the observed pro-cyclicality is found in the behavior of tax revenues directly collected by the state governments. Intergovernmental transfers (federal transfers to the states) are not associated with changes in gross state product, but they are pro-cyclically aligned with national gross domestic product, which could amplify the pro-cyclical behavior of sub-national expenditures.
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