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O fracasso do Plano Collor: erros de execução ou de concepção?

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  • Carlos Eduardo Carvalho

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The failure of Collor Plan in stabilizing the Brazilian economy, in March 1990, is a neglected area in Brazilian economics. The liquidity blockade involving the majority of financial assets reduced inflation rates substantially, from 70% per month to 10% per month, but it rose again gradually to almost 20% per month in December. The return to high inflation was attributed to the government’s inability to manage a controlled lifting of the blockade, due to political and social pressure, as well as to some errors in the program implementation. This interpretation leads to the hypothesis that the liquidity blockade could have been successful if had it been correctly implemented and managed. This article argues the opposite thesis that the blockade failed because implementation was in fact impossible. Maintaining the strict imposition of the blockade rules would have paralysed the payment system and precipitated a very serious banking crisis.

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  • Carlos Eduardo Carvalho, 2003. "O fracasso do Plano Collor: erros de execução ou de concepção?," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 4(2), pages 283-331, July-Dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:econom:v:4:y:2003:i:2:p:283-331
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    1. Marongiu, Federico, 2007. "Alta inflación y planes de ajuste en Brasil durante el retorno a la democracia - 1985-1994 [High inflation and adjustment in Brazil during the return to democracy - 1985-1994]," MPRA Paper 18956, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Collor Plan; liquidity blockade; monetary reform; stabilization policies; Brazil;
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    JEL classification:

    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
    • 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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