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      Central banking reform and overcoming the moral hazard problem: the case of Brazil Translated title: A reforma do Banco Central e superação do problema de risco moral: o caso do Brasil

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          ABSTRACT The implicit assumption that governments will bailout financial institutions under distress can generate negative incentives for the development of a sound financial system. This paper begins from the premise that these negative incentives, which create a situation of moral hazard, is essentially a political problem rather than a technical problem over generating correct institutional incentives. In the Brazilian case, we argue the current administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso was only able to significantly reduce its moral hazard problem in the financial sector through distancing its political relationship with two important political actors: the private financial sector and state governors. The ability of the government to eliminate the implicit assumption of an eventual Central Bank bailout over public and private commercial banks was only made possible through a series of political conditions, which includes the end of hyper-inflation under the Real Plan, that reduced the government’s dependence upon those two important political actors.

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          RESUMO A suposição implícita de que os governos socorrerão instituições financeiras em dificuldades pode gerar incentivos negativos para o desenvolvimento de um sistema financeiro sólido. Este artigo parte da premissa de que esses incentivos negativos, que criam uma situação de risco moral, são essencialmente um problema político e não um problema técnico sobre a geração correta de incentivos institucionais. No caso brasileiro, argumentamos que o atual governo de Fernando Henrique Cardoso só conseguiu reduzir significativamente seu problema de risco moral no setor financeiro distanciando sua relação política com dois importantes atores políticos: o setor financeiro privado e os governadores estaduais. A capacidade do governo de eliminar a suposição implícita de um eventual resgate do Banco Central sobre bancos comerciais públicos e privados só foi possível através de uma série de condições políticas, que incluem o fim da hiperinflação sob o Plano Real, que reduziu a dependência do governo desses dois importantes atores políticos.

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                Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
                Brazil. J. Polit. Econ.
                Centro de Economia Política (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0101-3157
                1809-4538
                September 2001
                : 21
                : 3
                : 407-432
                Affiliations
                [2] San Diego California orgnameUniversiry of California United States garman@ 123456eurasiagroup.net
                [3] São Paulo SP orgnameUniversity of São Paulo Brasil moises.marques@ 123456fasm.edu.br
                [1] São Paulo São Paulo orgnameUniversidade de São Paulo orgdiv1Department of Political Science Brazil loursola@ 123456uol.com.br
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                S0101-31572001000300407 S0101-3157(01)02100300407
                10.1590/0101-31572001-1252
                25ea594f-053f-4708-9e2b-624dc8fc0dbe

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                sistema financeiro,Autonomia do Banco Central,political economy,moral hazard,economia política,risco moral,bancos,banks,financial system,Central Bank autonomy

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