Sustentabilidade fiscal do Estado do Ceará no período de 2002 a 2011

Abstract

Considering the government's intertemporal budget constraint is fulfilled, this work analyzes the solvency of contractual public debt in the state of Ceará using the Bohn's (1998) approach. In this context, the debt is considered sustainable if the government demonstrates concern to increases in the debt/GDP ratio with increases in primary surpluses. For the empirical exercise, cointegration tests are performed based on the reaction function over the fiscal monthly data for the period 2002-2011. They found evidences that the government has not reacted to the increasing of debt level recorded in the period, despite its explosive behavior (non-stationary), evidenced by unit root tests.