Os determinantes do endividamento externo brasileiro, 1964-79: uma tentativa de categorização das principais interpretações e análise empírica

• Ano de defesa: 2004
• Autor(a) principal: Francelino, Josiane de Araújo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Economia - Brasil; Divida externa - Brasil; Liquidez internacional; Econometria; Política econômica; Economic policy
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154609; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/11-04-2017/000883752.pdf

This work aims to examine how the economic literature has interpreted the causes of Brazilian foreign debt in the 1964-79 period and take one step ahead concerning the explaining variables in this process. It was possible to classify those interpretations into three major categories: the first one emphasizes domestic factors regarding the financial system as the main cause of the debt; the second one emphasizes foreign factors, specially because of the world economy in the period; the third one, divided into two subgroups, uses a blend of domestic and foreign factors, emphasizing the existence of domestic structures that necessarily stimulated and supported this kind of pro debt policy (debt as an option of economic policy, with foreign and domestic support). Based on variables pointed out in the literature, we estimated a general model for foreign debt in the whole period (1964-79). This is not entirely different from what was made before in empiric works, but there are innovations such as the inclusion of social and political variables for different time frames (since those data are not available for the whole period). Tests of Structural Breaks and Analysis of Intervention seems to show that factors usually taken as responsible for foreign debt in the period, such as low cost of foreign money, high domestic interest rates, international liquidity, petroleum crisis, are not sufficient explanations to the evolution of debt in the period. The empiric results seem to be more in favor of those who consider in their analysis, both domestic and foreign causes