An empirical study of the substitution of foreign for domestic savings in Brazil

This study aims to investigate the relations between the level of the real exchange rate, foreign savings and domestic savings in Brazil. The appreciation of the domestic currency caused by financing the current account deficit reduces the expected profit rate in the tradable goods industry, leading...

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Main Authors: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Eliane Araújo, Paulo Gala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000095