El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la dinámica económica de un grupo de países de América Latina durante el período 1955-2003. Para ello se introduce un concepto alternativo de desempeño económico basado en la noción de regímenes dinámicos. Estos regímenes están definidos por...

The aim of this paper is to study the economic dynamics of a set of countries of the Americas during the 1955-2003 period. It does this by introducing an alternative concept of economic performance based on the idea of dynamic regimes. These regimes are defined by the level and growth rate of...

The relation between socioeconomic conditions and health has been widely considered in the economic literature. In this context, income level and education are considered key factors because of their relative important effect over the population health status.This paper, after make a survey over...

The aim of this paper is to apply the methods of Symbolic Time Series Analysis (STSA) to series of inflation from a group of Latin-American economies. Starting with a partition of two inflation regimes, we use data symbolization for identifying temporal patterns. Afterwards the statistical...

In this paper we introduce a method to describe dynamical patterns for the exchange rate movements in the main Latin American markets and to analyze the contagion phenomena in currency crisis. This method combines Symbolic Time Series Analysis (Daw et. al. 2003) with the nearest neighbor single...