The paper studies the dynamic effects of fiscal policy shocks upon Argentine macroeconomic variables such as the gross domestic product, the inflation rate and the level of unemployment; a structural Vector Autoregression model is resorted to in order to estimate the impulse response functions;...

Although international crises partially accounted for the recent weak Argentine economic performance, main causes have to be sought in domestic economic policies adding uncertainty to the decision process of economic sectors and amplifying crises’ effects. Government revenues exhibited a...

By using an endogenous growth model, in which public services and facilities are subject to congestion (which occurs when output growth rate exceeds that of public spending), Rezk analyzes the relationship between public spending and the rate of economic growth. He derives the optimal government...

The econometric analysis based on a fixed effect panel data model for the period 1993-2004, aimed at ascertaining whether the public spending of Argentine provinces was influenced by economic and fiscal variables and also by politico-institutional variables such as provinces´ political sign,...