A principios de la presente década en la Argentina se realizó un profundo cambio en el sector eléctrico, cuando se decidió pasar a un sistema más descentralizado y con mayor participación privada. La nueva organización fue pensada con el objetivo de conformar un mercado que ofreciera...

El objeto de este trabajo es trazar una evaluación del impacto de las concesiones de agua y saneamiento en la República Argentina sobre los sectores más pobres de la población. Para ello se analizan, en primer lugar, los cambios registrados en la provisión de estos servicios a los sectores...

Inlfation targeting is a relatively new way to administer the monetary policy, since the velocity of money revealed unstable and hard pegs unsustainable. The new regime is one of flexible exchange rates, and the target of the monetary policy becomes the rate of inflation itself, instead of any...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is not a unique explanation for growth and progress, but is one of the more useful indicators of the open opportunities. It reveals preferences of the developed countries’ private sector, while the emerging economies seem to participate in a global bid. That bid...

The literature highlights the role of finance in growth. There is evidence on the connection (correlation and causalities) between deeper finance (banking and non banking) and growth. We ask if some countries achieve better results, in terms of growth, with comparable levels of finance. To...

The aim of this work is to present in a systematic way elements around the debate on the persistence of a central bank arrangement, currency boards or the Dollarization option. In some special circumstances, both later arrangements could be desirable. They are not a universal panacea in the way...

The objective of this article is to present in a systematic war elements to debate the persistence of the option for central banks, against its replacement by currency boards or by a foreign currency in unstable environments. Both, currency boards or "dollarization" could be desirable since the...

After the currency devaluation of 2002, tariffs on public services were frozen in Argentina and public utilities contracts were put under renegotiation. The sector of water and sanitation is relatively in disadvantage with respect to other Latin American countries of the similar level of...

Does a small economy benefit from having local financial intermediaries? If "yes", then what can be done to ameliorate the performance of local financial intermediaries? This article it is made a review on theoretical and empirical literature related with both questions. Two strands of the...

Corporate governance could be defined as the institutions or mechanisms, which induce incentives in listed firms, in order to recognize benefits between all the stakeholders, and to restrict the discretion over that distribution, in presence of asymmetric information and incomplete contracts....