The spend-and-tax or tax-and-spend: further evidence for the Brazilian imperial period

Abstract: 'This article tests the flows of rents during the Brazilian Imperial period. To achieve this goal, a Vector of Error Correction Model (VECM) was employed to test long-run and short-run relationships between government revenues and expenditures. The VECM was applied for the entire imperial period with data available (1836-1889) and for the period after the Law Alves Branco (1844-1889), which more than doubled tariffs on imports. A trivariate causality test fails to show a casual relationship among the variables in any direction, regardless of the period tested. When the augmented granger causality test is employed for the entire period, results show a unidirectional causality from government expenditures to revenues, a spend-to-tax model, and a bi-causality relationship for the 1844-1889 period.' (author's abstract)|

Object Details

• Alternative title: (Steuer) einnehmen und ausgeben oder ausgeben und (Steuer) einnehmen: weitere Einsichten zur imperialen Periode in Brasilien
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The spend-and-tax or tax-and-spend: further evidence for the Brazilian imperial period ; volume:33 ; number:4 ; year:2008 ; pages:255-263 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 33, Heft 4 (2008), 255-263

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Zanella, Fernando

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.33.2008.4.255-263
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-191649
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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