In this paper, we contrast two different views in the debate on official dollarization. The Mundell (1961) framework of optimal currency areas and a model on boom-bust cycles, by Schneider and Tornell (2004), who take account of credit market imperfections prevalent in middle income countries....

Mirando atrás : Mexican immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton -- Through the northern Borderlands : Canada-U.S. migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bruno Ramirez -- The making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere : mobility, sex...