This paper provides an overview of the major economic events in Argentina from the adoption of the convertibility plan … currency board and capital flows, and the inescapable link between fiscal and monetary policy. Argentina inadvertently entered … late 1990s, when Argentina went into recession, it required some sort of stimulus -- either a loosening of monetary policy …

statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August … 1998, it did not suffer the excruciating collapse suffered by Argentina, where even the payments system came to a full stop …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …

large devaluation episodes: Argentina (2001), Brazil (1999), Korea (1997), Mexico (1994), and Thailand (1997). We conduct a … detailed analysis of the Argentina case using disaggregated CPI data, data from our own survey of prices in Buenos Aires, and …

We offer an alternative explanation for the fall of Argentina's Convertibility Program based on the country … prices is larger the more closed an economy is in terms of its supply of tradable goods. By contrasting Argentina … of 1998, we identify key vulnerability indicators that separated Argentina from its piers. We also provide an explanation …

Argentina's economic crisis has strong similarities with previous crises stretching back to the nineteenth century. A …