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14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2002

Temin, Peter - 2002

Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study three macroeconomic policy problems in depth. Possible topics include long-run economic growth, the macroeconomics of the transition to a modern capitalist society, federal government surpluses and deficits, Social Security, the distribution of earnings...

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The Corporate Choice between Public Debt, Bank Loans, Traditional Private Debt Placements, and 144A Debt Issues

Arena, Matteo - 2010

The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and...

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The effects of "bad" governance - the case of Argentina's economic development under special consideration of system reliance

Eberhart, David - 2006

Argentinien erlebte in der Jahren 2001 und 2002 die schwerste Wirtschaftskrise seiner jüngeren Geschichte. Doch auch … dominierenden strukturalistischen Ansätze, noch die neoklassischen Erklärungsbeiträge, die seit den 80er Jahren auch in Argentinien … Anwendbarkeit für die Erklärung des Fallbeispiels Argentinien einschränken. Sie beleuchten zwar jeweils wichtige Aspekte des …

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Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Policy: An Economic Analysis

Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009

Es ist noch immer nicht endgültig geklärt, wie fiskalische Dezentralisierung die Höhe und Struktur der öffentlichen Ausgaben beeinflusst. Diese Dissertation analysiert daher zwei zusammenhängende Fragen. Erstens werden die Auswirkungen der fiskalischen Dezentralisierung auf die...

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Capital controls and external debt term structure

Auernheimer, Leonardo (contributor) - 2005

In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between capital controls and the choiceof the maturity structure of external debt in a general equilibrium setup, incorporatingexplicitly the role of international lenders. I look at specific types of capital controlswhich take the form of...

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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005

for a new global financial architecture following the financial crises in East Asia and Argentina. In the course we will …

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Empirical Evaluation of DSGE Models for Emerging Countries

Garcia Cicco, Javier - 2009

This dissertation is the collection of three essays aimed to evaluate the empirical performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in explaining the behavior of macroeconomic dynamics in emerging countries. Chapter 1, which is joint work with M. Uribe and R. Pancrazzi,...

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Learning and the Creation of Innovation Capabilities in Argentina’s Auto Parts Industry

Motta, Jorge - 2009

The purpose of this article is to find out about the main sources and the learning and skills accumulation modalities in innovation among Argentine auto parts manufacturers. In particular: a) the way the firms follow to introduce new products, processes and organisational forms and the way in...

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Argentine soybean production: the outlier in a weak innovative environment

Albrieu, Ramiro; Bernat, Gonzalo; Corso, Eduardo Ariel - 2009

During the last decade, Argentine soybean production showed a high rate of innovation, as farmers adopted state of the art technologies associated with biotechnology without important lags regarding their international launch. This sector’s high speed of assimilation of global innovations...

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