posted on 2018-01-17, 02:48authored byELANO FERREIRA ARRUDA, MARIA THALITA ARRUDA OLIVEIRA, IVAN CASTELAR
ABSTRACT This work analyzes how the recent Brazilian inflation responds to economic cycles and its inertial component considering different environments of forward-looking expectations in the framework of the Hybrid New-Keynesian Phillips Curve (HNKPC). To do this, use is made of monthly data from January 2002 to August 2015 and GMM-HAC estimates of the HNKPC. The results suggest that Brazilian inflation still has a strong inertial component and that in an environment of lower predictability of economic agents, inflation seems to be more sensitive to cyclical fluctuations in economic activity. Finally, it was observed a positive and significant pass-through exchange rate to inflation in Brazil.