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questions, the authors estimate a spatial profit function for industrial activity in Brazil that explicitly incorporates …
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The authors investigate whether integration with global markets affects the financing choices of firms from East Asia and Latin America. Using firm-level data for the 1980s and 1990s, they study how leverage ratios, the structure of debt maturity, and sources of financing change when economies...
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model using an original panel dataset of 124 transport concessions in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru over 1992 …
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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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The author investigates whether contagion matters when emerging market firms cross-list their stocks in a developed capital market. She develops a rational expectations model where financial markets are segmented along emerging markets' borders and contagion spreads from one emerging market to...
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, in their analysis and examine the home-based work sector in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico in 1999. Their results show that …
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make a time-consistent commitment for fiscal prudence. It examines the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, as …
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former phenomenon. Using household survey data from four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, and Guyana …
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The authors describe the evolution of relative wages in five Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, Chile … relative abundance in all of the countries except Brazil. This is strong evidence of increases in the demand for skilled …
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, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa … before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for … Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage …
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