During the past fifteen years, financial markets in Latin America have experienced a major transformation. This process and its effects on the nature of risks and policy challenges in Latin America were the focus of a May 2007 conference in Mexico City sponsored by the Representative Office for...

This paper uses a rational expectations macroeconomic model in which economic agents formulate the probability about the sustainability of the economic policy - that is, policy credibility - using current and lagged values of government expenditures and lagged values of the inflation rate. The...

During the past fifteen years, financial markets in Latin America have experienced a major transformation. This process and its effects on the nature of risks and policy challenges in Latin America were the focus of a May 2007 conference in Mexico City sponsored by the Representative Office for...