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Shedding light on Argentina's macroeconomic trap : Macroeconomic Policy Regimes and Demand and Growth Regimes
Ianni, Juan Martín - 2023
Demand and Growth Regimes (DGR) and Macroeconomic Policy Regimes (MPR) frameworks have taken prominence within the post … terms of aggregate demand and growth. In particular, it is possible to observe the MPR and DGR transition between 2002 and …
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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios‐Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay. Using an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function, the paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059249
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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Using an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function, the paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235243
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Regional monetary cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo, José Antonio; Titelman Kardonsky, Daniel - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579536
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The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in developing countries
Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Brückner, Lutz - 2018 - This version: March 2018
One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818445
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Back to BITs and Bites : Do Trade and Investment Agreements Promote Foreign Direct Investment within Latin America?
Bengoa-Calvo, Marta - 2018
In this paper we investigate the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented gravity model in which we control for cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931765
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Regional Monetary Cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102109
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Latin American growth : a trade perspective
Torre, Augusto de la; Ize, Alain - 2019
This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks … down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction … brings to light three regional growth dynamics: the first is centered on commodities and South America, the second on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051845
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Promoting Access to Modern Energy Sources in Small Island Developing States
Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2014
Energy is the mainstay of today's economy in the developed world, in the rapidly industrializing developing world, and in other parts of the world. Such is its importance to the modern economy that energy security has been linked to national security. Yet one in five people in the world today...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048196
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Role of central bank independence in banking and financial stability ensuring
Dudchenko, Victoria - In: Financial markets, institutions and risks : FMIR 4 (2020) 2, pp. 115-121
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