Can the Distributional Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks be Predicted? A Comparison of the Performance of Macro-Micro Models with Historical Data for Brazil

What was the impact of Brazil's 1998-99 currency crisis-which resulted in a change of exchange rate regime and a large real devaluation-on the occupational structure of the labor force and the distribution of incomes? Would it have been possib...

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Main Authors: Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe George, Pereira da Silva, Luiz A., Picchetti, Paulo
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:
CPI
GDP
GNP
MPS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14030