Estudis sobre política fiscal. El cas de Brasil
- Autores: José de Anchieta Semedo Neves
- Directores de la Tesis: Albert Marcet Torrens (dir. tes.), Francesc Obiols Homs (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: catalán
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jordi Caballe Vilella (presid.), Xavier Raurich Puigdevall (secret.), José Angelo Costa do Amor Divino (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Análisis Económico por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
In this thesis, I work on three independent essays concerning fiscal policy. Even though the motivation relates to the Brazilian challenges, the results serve as references to other developing economies. In the first chapter, I discuss policy responses in a deep recession context, assessing distinct fiscal rules. In the second chapter, I study optimal fiscal policy when a country experiences an abrupt increase in fiscal revenues due to a nonrenewable natural resource windfall. Chapter 3 explores the impact of public expenditures on citizens' well-being in distinct government action areas. Together, these chapters bring a contribution to an ample spectrum of fiscal policy discussions. In assessing distinct fiscal rules and their implications for policy decisions, I explore the relevance to open fiscal space to a government implement a countercyclical policy, even finding evidence that this policy is not desirable as a general rule. In addition, by studying optimal policies when dealing with a natural resource windfall, I show the importance of responsible government savings behavior to challenge uncertainty in intergenerational wealth management. Finally, studying the impact of public expenditures on people's well-being highlights that maybe governments are failing to use in an efficient way citizens' tax payments.
