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Gastos com Bens Duráveis no Ciclo da Vida das Famílias Brasileiras

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  • Marcos Antonio Coutinho da Silveira

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Entender a evolução do tamanho e da alocação da poupança das famílias no ciclo da vida é de fundamental importância no desenho de políticas públicas. Neste sentido, o gasto com bens duráveis não pode ser ignorado, pois é uma importante forma de poupança, com participação significativa no orçamento pessoal. Além disso, imperfeições no mercado de crédito tornam interdependentes as decisões alocativas entre bens duráveis e não duráveis e ativos financeiros. Com esta motivação, o trabalho utiliza dados da Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares de 2008-2009 para descrever e analisar a evolução, ao longo do ciclo da vida do gasto com bens duráveis das famílias brasileiras. Os dados revelam um comportamento consistente com a hipótese de que as famílias preferem comprar logo na fase inicial do ciclo todo o estoque desejado de bens duráveis, de forma a suavizar o consumo de seus serviços no tempo. No entanto, a existência de restrições creditícias, principalmente para o financiamento de bens com maior valor unitário, impede que os gastos com bens duráveis sigam sua trajetória ótima. Understand the evolution of the size and allocation of household savings throughout the life cycle is of fundamental importance in the design of public policies. In this sense,durable goods expenditure cannot be ignored as it is an important form of savings with significant participation in personal budget. In addition, credit market imperfections make interdependent the allocative decisions among durable goods, non-durable goods and financial assets. With this motivation, the work uses data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey from 2008-2209 to describe and analyze the evolution throughout the life cycle of the durable goods expenditure of Brazilian families. The data reveal a behavior compatible with the hypothesis that families prefer to buy at an early stage of the cycle all the desired stock of durable goods, in order to smooth consumption of their services over time. However, the existence of credit constraints, mainly for the financing of goods with higher unit value, prevents spending on durable goods follow their optimal trajectory.

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  • Marcos Antonio Coutinho da Silveira, 2014. "Gastos com Bens Duráveis no Ciclo da Vida das Famílias Brasileiras," Discussion Papers 1984, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
  • Handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:1984
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