Welfare cost of inflation in Brazil: an approach with time-varying cointegration and Kalman filter

This paper compares the time-varying cointegration and the Kalman filter techniques to estimate the Brazilian money demand between 1996 and 2015. The estimation using Kalman filtering performs better and is subsequently used to calculate the welfare cost of inflation. Taking into consideration the...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Lima Campos, Rubens Penha Cysne
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2020-05-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/ecoa/article/view/141132