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Distribution and Conflict Inflation in Brazil under Inflation Targeting, 1999–2014

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  • Ricardo Summa
  • Franklin Serrano

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In this paper, we analyze Brazilian inflation under the inflation-targeting system from a conflict inflation perspective and show how the inflation target system only worked well when there was a trend of exchange rate appreciation. Later, the strengthening of the bargaining power of workers and rising real wages since 2006, combined with continuous nominal exchange rate depreciation after mid-2011, increased distributive conflicts and are ultimately behind the recent shift toward austerity.

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  • Ricardo Summa & Franklin Serrano, 2018. "Distribution and Conflict Inflation in Brazil under Inflation Targeting, 1999–2014," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(2), pages 349-369, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:50:y:2018:i:2:p:349-369
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613417691787
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    Keywords

    conflict inflation; inflation target system; functional income distribution; Brazilian economy;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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