Antonio Lemgruber holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Virginia (1974). A former President of the Central Bank of Brazil (1985) he was also an academic economist and professor at EPGE - Escola de Pos-Graduação em Economia between 1974 and 1984.He was also bank executive in a few banks in Brazil. Presently, economic consultant to Brazilian companies and financial institutions.
Recent Blog Posts by Antonio Carlos Lemgruber
- The Old Debate: Fixed Versus Floating Rates
- The Brazilian Miracles and a Certain Dose of Pessimism
- Fiscal Policy in Brazil: Why “Primary Surpluses”?
- Going Against the Conventional Macroeconomic Wisdom in Brazil 2010
- A Negative Fiscal Multiplier in Brazil
- Brazil: Economic Growth, Potential Output and Inflation
- The Exchange Rate/Interest Rate Dilemma in Brazil
- What a Difference a Central Banker Makes
- Flexible Exchange Rates and the Domestic Savings Rate
- 2010: BRICs, PIIGS and the G-5 Countries
- The New Banana Republics
- The Dollar Party
- Brazil: Optimistic Estimates
- Some New Macroeconomic Challenges
- Stopping Financial Bubbles through Taylor’s Rule
- Measuring Potential Economic Recoveries
- Duration and Intensity of GDP Variability: The Global Recession will finish in the second half of 2010
- Exchange Rates, Recessions and Depressions
- A Monetarist Analysis of the US Macroeconomic Situation
- Fiscal Policy and Crowding-Out
- Black and White Swans: The Financial Panic of 2008 and Some Brazilian Lessons of 1975
- The Financing of the Banking Crisis: a Short Note on Multipliers
- A Short Note on the Banking and the Banking Crisis in the US
- Brazil: Contradictions of Economic Policy – from Vargas to Lula (1930-2008)
- The Role of Monetary Policy under An Inflation Target Model: Brazil 2008
- Comparisons between 2008 and 1978
- Some Comments on the Overvaluation of the Brazilian Currency
- US Banking Problems: Brazilian and Nordic Lessons
- Inflation, Interest Rates and The Exchange Rate in Brazil
- Back to Friedman and Interest Rates
- Brazil: A Lost Opportunity (in relation to the USA) – 1817/1821
- Biofuels in Brazil and the Rest of the World
- What can go wrong in Brazil?
- An Exchange Rate Band for Brazil
- Brazilian Economy, Last Century and New Century
- The Impossible Trinity
- The Output Gap in Brazil
- Brazil: Inflation Targets and Exchange Rate Overvaluation
