Search Results - subject:"LATIN AMERICA"

Market power, industry concentration and trade liberalization : evidence from Costa Rica

Gómez-Trejos, Felipe; Solano, Daniela Córdoba; … - 2025

Research about trade liberalization's impact on markups has focused on manufacturing due to data availability considerations. How do these effects vary across sectors? Which industries become more and less competitive as trade barriers are eliminated? We leverage firm-level tax records from the...

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Fiscal consolidations in Latin America and the Caribbean : do inequality, corruption, and informality matter?

Jalles, João Tovar; Pessino, Carola; Calderon, Ana Cristina - 2025

(EMDE) including Latin America, all with pressing and mounting fiscal problems, have rekindled interest in the empirical … America. Consolidations are more likely during good economic times. Inequality does not seem to drive consolidations in Latin … Latin America is larger than in other country groups, when informality is high the multiplier effect gets reduced to a much …

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Competition law and regulations : productivity impacts in Latin American manufacturing firms

Wong, Sara A.; Petreski, Marjan - 2025

This paper investigates the effects of competition laws and regulations on manufacturing firms productivity in Latin American countries (LACs), addressing a gap in existing research. Leveraging firm-level panel data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys across 14 LAC economies and competition...

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Breaking glass ceilings in Colombia : strategies and outcomes in efforts to narrow the gender gap in educational leadership

Elacqua, Gregory; Perez Nunez, Graciela; Cubillos, Pedro; … - 2025

In Colombia, women represent 65% of the teacher workforce but only 34% of school principals, reflecting a significant gender gap in leadership. This study examines two centralized principal selection processes implemented by Colombias National Civil Service Commission: the 2016 nationwide...

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Competition and market power in the Latin American banking sector

Lluberas, Rodrigo - 2025

The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin American countries. Second, we estimate lending markups and deposits markdowns in each country over time....

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How employment framing affects trade preferences : evidence from survey experiments

Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Stein, Ernesto; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2025

International trade increases aggregate welfare but also creates winners and losers, which makes free trade a contentious political issue. Recent research has established that individuals are more sensitive to anti-trade information about the prospect of employment loss than to pro-trade...

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How do trade restrictions affect market diversity?

Uribe-Terán, Carlos; Grijalva, Diego F.; Gachet, Ivan - 2025

This paper examines the impact of safeguard import tariffs on market diversity in Ecuador from 2015 to 2017. Using firm-level data, we estimate the effects of tariffs on revenue and market shares in the Manufacturing and Wholesale & Retail (W&R) sectors with a Quantile Treatment Effect on the...

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Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development

Ball, Molly C. - 2025

, the book introduces readers to relevant New Economic History concepts and explains important characteristics of Latin … America, such as the region's high volatility, rapid urbanization experience, the continued prominence of commodities, and its …

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Trapped in bad specialization: Premature deindustrialization and unstable growth in LACs

Gómez, María Celeste; Dosi, Giovanni; Riccio, Federico; … - 2025

Over the last forty years, Latin American countries (LACs) have experienced a variety of specialization trajectories, while sharing a common pattern of weak and unstable growth. Given the accelerated premature deindustrialization path and the loss of productive capacity, manufacturing has...

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Co-Creation in Social Enterprises : A Latin American Perspective on Human and Sustainable Development

López-Fernández, Andrée Marie - 2025

backdrop of Latin America and the Caribbean. It highlights the impacts of conquest, colonialism, and dictatorships on current … in social enterprise dynamics, this book offers an understanding of the origins of social issues in Latin America and the …

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