Spanish Abstract: Este artículo lleva a cabo una revisión de la literatura académica que estudia los determinantes del tamaño del sector público. En primer lugar, se analizan los modelos clásicos basados en el teorema del votante mediano, en el que las decisiones públicas vienen...

As it also happened in many Latin American countries during the 60s and 70s, inflation became one of the main economic problems in the Brazilian economy. The acceleration of prices and hyperinflation coexisted not only with periods of economic expansion (1956-1979), but also with huge...

The IMF had a coercitive and disciplining role in different eras of Argentina`s economic history. This role became more evident when facing governements that were not so fond of implementing the reforms suggested by the international financial institution but that at the same time strongly...

Within the economic policies implemented by the six Economy Ministers of the Peronist government of 1973-1976 there exist two cases in which shock policies or shock adjustments were done with the aim to correct the problems that the Argentinean economy was suffering. those were the shock...

This work analyzes the Argentinean financial system reform of 1977. Through this reform the militar government deepened the structural change that they have already started with the Coup D´etat in March 1976. The new scheme benefited strongly Capital in the functional income distribution,...

Este documento realiza una discusión de las implicaciones de la estabilidad presupuestaria en un marco descentralizado. En primer lugar, se aportan una serie de argumentos a favor de la disciplina fiscal. En segundo lugar, se abordan las peculiaridades de la estabilidad presupuestaria en...

Siguiendo un enfoque "Hirschmaniano" este artículo examina críticamente varios postulados para establecer su verdadera validez conceptual y su consistencia con las reformas que serian deseables. Se cuestionan "creencias" y "expectativas" sobre temas fiscales, redistributivos y sobre el papel...