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Investment ratings (e.g., by Morningstar) provide a simple ordinal scale (e.g., 1 to 5) for comparing investments. Typically, ratings are assigned within categories -- groups of assets sharing common characteristics -- but using the same ordinal scale for all groups. Comparing such categorized...
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How accurate is a log-linear approximation of the New Keynesian model when the nominal interest rate is bounded by zero? This paper compares the solution of the exact non-linear model to the log-linear approximation. It finds that the difference is modest. This applies even for extreme events in...
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This paper investigates the impact of a progressive tax reform on tax compliance. We leverage a major progressive tax reform in a large Argentine municipality. First, we use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal effect of changes in a household's own tax rates on its tax compliance....
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Argentina's economic crisis has strong similarities with previous crises stretching back to the nineteenth century. A …
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The flypaper effect is a widely-documented puzzle whereby the propensity of sub-national governmental units to spend out of unconditional transfers is higher than the propensity to spend out of private income. Building on previous insights in the literature that rationalize this puzzle using...
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Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of …
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