The question of stabilization in the 1980s: an institutional approach

This paper deals with the relation between institutions and stabilization problems. Its purposes is to demonstrate that the consideration of the institutions may provide answers for questions that the conventional macroeconomic analysis have not been succeeding in. The main questions is: why, in Bra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Paulani, Leda Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1994
País:Brasil
Institución:EDITORA 34
Repositorio:Revista de Economia Política
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.centrodeeconomiapolitica.org:article/1265
Acceso en línea:https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/1265
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Stabilization
indexation
inflation
money supply
Estabilização
indexação
inflação
emissão de moeda
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Sumario:This paper deals with the relation between institutions and stabilization problems. Its purposes is to demonstrate that the consideration of the institutions may provide answers for questions that the conventional macroeconomic analysis have not been succeeding in. The main questions is: why, in Brazil, from the beginning of the eighties onward, the inflation rate does not fall to a civilized levels but does not go to a hyperinflationary process? The approach is that provided by the “New Institutional Economics” (NIE) and the tentative hypothesis is that the formal indexation — a allocative institution created by the military government — (PAEG, 1967) — would have displaced the constitutive and fundamental institution, i. e, the money, the official currency. As a result of this process — a different process within Latin America because of the official and legal sign of the Brazilian indexation —, the recurrent rise of prices would have transformed itself into an institution. JEL Classification: E31; E51.